Banners of crimson and gold will ripple across Beijing’s Chang’an Avenue this morning, but in a quiet living room in Gżira, Joseph Xuereb is already reaching for the remote. “Every parade is different,” the retired AFM sergeant says, settling into the sofa beside his wife Li—a Beijing native whose parents once marched in the 1959…

# In pictures: Australian soldiers in Malta during WWI – a forgotten chapter of island hospitality The black-and-white photographs look almost Mediterranean in their light: khaki-clad young men lounging on the bastions of Valletta, cricket bats resting against limestone walls, while the Grand Harbour glitters behind them. Yet these are not Maltese soldiers – they…

While you sleep: debunking the myths about Malta’s bats ——————————————————- By the time the last ferry from Gozo slips into Ċirkewwa and the Comino day-trippers have rinsed the salt from their hair, another shift clocks in. Above the honey-coloured bastions of Mdina, below the festa lights of Birkirkara, and even along the glass-and-steel skyline of…