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25 JULY 2001
Editorial
The stark
reality about equities
The ‘China factor’
Comments:
On
Albert Mizzi and Price Club
From Alec A. Mizzi , Alf. Mizzi & Sons (Marketing) Ltd, Marsa
Interview
Louis Naudi
Getting
to the roots of Malta’s agriculture problems
Co-ordinator
of the Malta Agriculture Lobby, Louis Naudi, speaks to MIRIAM DUNN about
the way forward for this fragile sector and calls for a united front
to help it overcome the hurdles it faces, irrespective of EU membership
Focus
Price Club quo vadis?
Both Leo Brincat and Vince Farrugia tend to agree that Government need
not intervene in the Price Club issue and they also give their views
on a foreign take-over.
Opinion
Salient
features of the Business Promotion Act
In the first of a two part series, Dr Conrad Portanier provides an insightful
look at the Business Promotions Act, designed to boost investment in Malta
through a number of specifically designed schemes and incentives |
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The
President of the People’s Republic of China during his second
day in Malta which he described as a pearl in the Mediterranean
[ See
editorial
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Photo
Paul Blandford
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Australian Pancon awarded two offshore
oil exploration permits
Area
contains ‘look-alike’ prospects of billio2n-barrel discoveries
Australian petroleum exploration company Pancontinental Oil & Gas
NL (Pancon), announced on Monday that it had executed an Exploration
Study Agreement (ESA) with the Maltese government for two offshore permits
totalling approximately 14,800 square kilometres just south west of
Malta
Advisory council to be launched
An advisory council to the Malta Enterprise Board will be
meeting for the first time this Saturday
International call for tenders for
WTC
The government will be issuing an international call for
tenders for the running and construction of a World Trade Centre, after
the government had successfully applied for a licence from the World
Trade Centres Association
The cost of getting connected
Statistics released by the National Statistics Office show consumption
trends moving towards IT related services and products and this change
in lifestyle is costing consumers an average of Lm50 a month
Low productivity underlined in government
performance audit
The Auditor General, Mr Joseph G. Galea, has submitted the Report "Performance
Audit – Countryside Section" to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives
Polish workers did not surface
because of Shipbuilding welders’ refusal – Tony
Zarb
The controversy over the refusal of 16 Malta Shipbuilding welders to
work on a Scandinavian-owned ship in the Drydocks and the subsequent
importation of Polish workers to do the job, deepened yesterday with
GWU secretary general Tony Zarb rebutting allegations that surfaced
in the press
BoV receives varied, enthusiastic
response to EUR100m syndicated loan
nvestors from across the globe have scrambled to take up Bank of Valletta’s
offer for a EUR100 million syndicated loan. The lenders, which total
no less than 24, range from 11 countries
VFM to launch Mediterranean Rim
Fund
During a press conference at the Hilton Malta, Joseph FX Zahra, Chairman
of Valletta Fund Management announced that in the coming days the company
will be launching a new fund investing in the Mediterranean region,
the La Valette Mediterranean Rim Fund
November deadline for final change
of local telephone numbers
The new numbering system will be officially implemented on 1 November
2001 with a parallel, running period of six months after the launch
date, during which time the old numbers will remain operational
Half-year government finance
- Lm54.5m
revenue-expenditure shortfall, both on the rise
The National Statistics Office reports that a smaller contribution to
the sinking fund, a fund accumulated to pay off public debt, in respect
to local and foreign loans saw a shortfall between ordinary revenue
and total expenditure during the first half of the year. The shortfall
amounted to Lm54.5 million a figure considerably up from a comparable
shortfall of Lm39 million registered during the same period last year
MIDI to call for proposals for
historical cultural project content
MIDI Chairman Albert Mizzi last week spoke to journalists being shown
around Fort Tigne’ in the third information session held on site
over the last seven months
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