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Huawei’s finance chief Meng Wanzhou has been arrested in Canada and is being extradited to the USA. Huawei says it does not know what wrongdoing Ms Wanzhou may have committed. But press reports suggest she’s accused of “violating US sanctions on Iran”. Meng, who is one of the vice chairs on the Chinese technology company's [...]

I met Jane Borg (not her real name) at a cafe’ not far from her old St Julians restaurant. She told me her next appointment was with her landlord. She decided to return the keys to her restaurant to him with all the equipment and the remainder of her stock inside. Jane is 35. She [...]

Guest Post sent in by someone I know who calls himself 'Lake'.   I sometimes wonder what happened to the Nationalist Party. I remember a time not so long ago when I used to follow Eddie Fenech Adami. I was fifteen when he regained a parliamentary majority with a mandate to re-initiate EU membership negotiations. [...]

Between February 2013 and June 2014 Maria Efimova worked in a Russian-owned perfumery in Cyprus. On 28 November 2017 the Cyprus police authorities issued a warrant for the arrest of Maria Efimova on allegations made by her former employer she had done something wrong while in his employment four years earlier. During those four years, [...]

By Lizzie Eldridge On the afternoon of Tuesday 18th September 2018 –  two days after I’d spent the night protecting flowers and candles from a possible ruthless assault by the government-controlled forces of the Cleansing Services Department – I had the (mis)fortune to bump into Owen Bonnici, the Minister for Justice and Culture, on Republic [...]

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has made his first pronouncement. The fact that pronouncement happened to be about a lawyer and the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards is the outgoing President of the Chamber of Advocates is, in my view, entirely secondary. The Commissioner was speaking about a government Minister and a Member of Parliament. That [...]

This piece is not about Adrian Delia’s politics or about his charismatic nature. Nor is it about the opinions of his wife. It is not about their public behaviour. And it is not a criticism of their choices. This piece is about a subject I think generally speaking should not concern journalists and should not [...]

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has assured the public she would exclude the National Health Service from any free trade agreement with the United States. A UK The Times story (you'll need a subscription to read it in full) reports on questions from Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable to the prime minister demanding she "confirms [...]

Lawyers for Pilatus Bank have fallen on the leading independent news organisations here in Malta threatening them with ruinous law suits in the United States unless they remove reams of stories on Pilatus Bank from their archives. I am informed The Times has considered legal advice and has replaced two of its archived, now deleted, [...]

The AUM has gone quiet in recent months and the government’s been keeping mum on this one, too. Must be because the massive cohort of students are still enjoying their annual summer leave. At least, that’s how Professor John Ryder explained the void to me when I interviewed him in his office two years ago. [...]