Avoiding pitfalls: Some considerations before buying corporate bonds By Karl Vella, Hot Malta Business Correspondent On a humid August evening in Sliema, while tourists queue for gelato and the bells of Stella Maris echo across Balluta Bay, a quieter conversation is unfolding on the terrace of a seafront café. Two friends—Maria, a 38-year-old pharmacist from…
Schneider Electric and GasanZammit Motors Ltd Drive Malta’s Electric Future—One Charger at a Time By Hot Malta On a sleepy Wednesday morning in Qormi, the scent of fresh pastizzi still lingered in the air as a small crowd gathered outside GasanZammit Motors’ flagship showroom. But they weren’t here for the usual diesel-guzzling pickups or family…
Transfer pricing (TP) in Malta: what businesses need to know By Hot Malta Business Desk Walk into any café on Strait Street at 9 a.m. and you’ll hear three languages at once: Maltese, English and Excel. Between sips of ħelwa tat-Tork, CFOs of gaming start-ups whisper about “arm’s length” and “benchmarking” the way fishermen once…
Malta Pavilion at Japan Expo Shortlisted for International Architecture Award: A Mediterranean Triumph in Tokyo Valletta’s skyline may be centuries old in stone, but Maltese creativity just rocketed into the 21st century—8,700 kilometres away. The Malta pavilion at last month’s Japan Expo in Tokyo has been shortlisted for the prestigious Architizer A+ Award in the…
‘Big Beautiful Bill’: How Trump 2.0 is redrawing America’s economic map – and why Valletta’s cafés are suddenly buzzing about tariffs, TikTok and tuna exports Tucked beneath the honey-coloured limestone arches of Strait Street, the chatter in Café du Brazil has shifted from yesterday’s Eurovision odds to something rather unexpected: Donald Trump’s 3,000-page tariff bomb,…
A Positive Signal with Emissions Reduction: Malta’s Quiet Revolution from Below Valletta’s skyline at dusk is no longer smudged by the familiar brown haze that used to hang over the Grand Harbour. On the first wind-still evening of June, the air above Fort St Elmo was clear enough to pick out the twinkling lights of…
**Malta climbs global FDI rankings – and the village festa might never be the same** For generations, the loudest engine on a Maltese summer night was the *kaxxa infernali* hauling fireworks to the village square. This week, a quieter hum stole the spotlight: the sound of foreign direct investment (FDI) surging through fibre-optic cables and…
The Malta War Papers – Chronicles of Courage By Luke Vella, Valletta A single, yellowing envelope stamped “On His Majesty’s Service – 1942” has just landed on the desk of the National Archives in Rabat. Inside: a letter from 19-year-old Carmelo Zahra, RAF ground-crew, scribbled on the back of an empty Kinnie label. “If I…
**BOV Locks of Love: How Bank Employees Are Weaving Hope Into Malta’s Cancer Care** Sliema’s Bank of Valletta headquarters usually hums with the rustle of statements and the clack of keyboards, but last Friday the ground-floor foyer echoed with a softer sound: the snip of scissors and the hush of anticipation. Thirteen BOV employees –…
**Alex Borg pledges unity and renewal in first interview as PN leader** In a candid late-night chat at the party’s Pietà headquarters, newly-elected Nationalist Party leader Alex Borg told *Hot Malta* that his first mission is to “bring the PN back to the people’s kitchen tables” after a decade of electoral defeats and internal rifts….
A 28-year-old Birkirkara man was hauled before a magistrate yesterday after police linked him to a six-month spree of motorcycle thefts that has left riders from Valletta to Mellieħa checking their locks twice before bed. The suspect, whose name is under a court-issued publication ban, was arrested during a dawn raid on a Qormi garage…
Valletta’s sun-drenched Upper Barrakka Gardens buzzed with handshakes, selfies and the unmistakable scent of pastizzi yesterday afternoon as Alex Borg was officially congratulated on his razor-thin victory to lead the Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry. In a scene that felt part political rally, part village festa, party leaders, seasoned lobbyists and family friends…
