**Letters to the Editor – September 16, 2025: The Pulse of Malta Speaks** The letters page of any newspaper is often described as the nation’s diary, and this morning’s edition of the Times of Malta is no exception. As the island wakes to another golden September dawn, the voices of fishermen in Marsaxlokk, pensioners in…
# Silk and Water: How Jiangnan’s Ancient Grace is Being Unpacked in Malta This Weekend Valletta’s Mediterranean Conference Centre will feel more like the banks of the Grand Canal of Suzhou this weekend when the China Cultural Centre hosts “Jiangnan Days”, a two-day deep-dive into the canal-threaded region that gave the world silk, ink-wash painting…
**Magnitude 5.2 tremor felt across Malta: ‘The ground moved like a boat deck’** Malta jolted awake at 06:04 this morning as a magnitude 5.2 earthquake centred 80 km south-west of Żurrieq sent chandeliers swinging, dogs barking and a wave of WhatsApp voice notes ricocheting across the islands. The quake, the strongest felt here since the…
**Past Victoria school students get together** The narrow streets of Victoria, Gozo, echoed with laughter last Saturday as more than 200 former students of the town’s government primary school reunited for the first “Ħbieb tal-Iskola Beltin” picnic. Spread beneath the orange trees of Villa Rundle, the gathering turned the usually tranquil garden into a living…
‘Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti’: new waves on the shore —————————————————- Valletta’s Grand Harbour shimmered under a late-spring haze last Saturday, but the real sparkle was inside the Banca Giuratale hall where Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti (FPM) unveiled its 2024–2027 strategy. For the first time in its 34-year history, the custodian of Malta’s tangible and intangible heritage is…
**From Knights’ Armour to Space Age: How Maltese Scientists Are Giving 3D-Printed Titanium a GLAM Make-Over** *By our science & culture correspondent* Valletta’s golden limestone façades have reflected every era—from the bronze cannons of the Knights to the carbon-fibre drones that now hover above Grand Harbour. Yet behind the baroque balconies a quieter revolution is…
Friction to Function: How Malta’s Engineers Turn Texture into Treasure Valletta’s 16th-century bastions are smooth to the eye but surprisingly grippy under a rubber-soled shoe. That silent grip—stone micro-ridges catching polymer peaks—is the same physics now guiding Maltese start-ups as they 3-D-print shark-skin textures onto yacht propellers and hospital door-handles. From Lascaris War Rooms to…
‘All hell broke loose’: Marsa resident recounts crash that damaged his home By Hot Malta Staff | 09 June 2025, 07:30 CEST MARSALFORN LANE, MALTA – At 02:17 last Sunday, Joseph “Ġoxx” Micallef was drifting off to the metallic hum of late-night drag-racers on Triq il-Marsa when the unmistakable crunch of twisting steel replaced the…
**September 13, 2025: A Day of Quiet Reflection and Subtle Shifts in Malta** As the first cool breath of autumn swept across the Grand Harbour this morning, Malta awoke to a series of understated yet significant announcements that promise to ripple through the archipelago’s social fabric in the months ahead. While the rest of Europe…
€25,000 licence surrender scheme planned for ‘coming weeks’ ————————————————————- Valletta – In a move that could redraw the island’s hospitality map, Tourism Minister Clayton Bartolo has announced a €25,000 cash-for-licence scheme aimed at persuading small hotel and guest-house owners to permanently close shop. The voluntary buy-out, which opens “in the coming weeks”, targets 1,000-odd micro-properties…
Dar Sant’Anna reopens as home for persons with disabilities – and Naxxar’s heart beats louder than ever By Hot Malta Staff Naxxar’s skyline changed little overnight, but its soul did. On Monday morning the wrought-iron gates of Dar Sant’Anna – shuttered since 2019 – swung open to a burst of applause, brass-band chords and a…
**Watch: The moment car crashes into Marsa building** In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the usually quiet streets of Marsa were jolted awake by a thunderous crash that would soon become the talk of the town. A speeding vehicle lost control on Triq il-Marsa, slamming directly into the façade of a historic townhouse near…
