Malta well on track for 2002 EU deadline
By Kurt Sansone
Malta registers good progress but more has to be done in enforcement, problems still pending in environment and agriculture

Factoring would not lessen need for good debt collection – HSBC, Malta chief
By Miriam Dunn
HSBC will explore the possibility next year of offering a factoring service to suppliers in the wake of the Price Club supermarket crash, but the provision of such a facility would in no way lessen the need for traders to keep on top of their creditors, according to Tom Robson, chief executive officer of HSBC, Malta

Labour grooming new middle class image
Kurt Sansone analyses Alfred Sant’s mass meeting speech and concludes that the Labour Party is reaching out to middle class Malta