Over the last few years the MaltaMedia Online Network (MMON) has expanded in a way that makes aboutmalta.com a better service for anyone seeking information from and/or about Malta on the Internet. The newest site to join the MMON is ImagineGozo.com, a collection of photo albums from Gozo and Comino. GozoWeather.com, another site on the MMON offering the latest weather forecast and reports from Gozo, complements ImagineGozo.com quite nicely for anyone seeking to visit Gozo in the coming weeks, before the annual summer invasion by Maltese tourists.

In the first two or three weeks since the site was launched to the public it has already attracted hundreds of Internet users on a daily basis. With the upcoming surge of Internet use in May, largely due to Mother's Day and Malta's entry at the Eurovision Song Contest, we believe that even more people will discover the beautiful pictures at ImagineGozo.com.

ImagineGozo.com will be updated with new pictures and other features from time to time, and you can rest assured that the first place you'll hear about any of that will be through the aboutmalta.com newsletter. Feel free to spread the word about this new website. It is a veritable showcase of some of the most wonderful visual aspects left for people to admire in the Maltese Islands.

Toni Sant
Consulting Editor, aboutmalta.com

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1. Last Month's Daily News from MaltaMedia
2. Top Picks:
     a. Mother's Day e-Cards
     b. Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest
3. This Month in Maltese History
4. What's On This Month

01 Roof collapses, cars catch fire
02 Fuel prices to increase
03 Government chooses Tecom to negotiate Maltacom's privatisation
04 Woman found dead in Mgarr
05 President Fenech Adami addresses the European Parliament
06 Dual LM-Euro pricing from January 2007
07 Holy week commences today
08 Man charged with murder of Baron Sant Cassia
09 Elderly woman attacked and robbed
10 PM presents incentives for the tourism industry
11 Maltese version of Microsoft XP launched
12 Phase A of Mġarr Harbour ready for commuters
13 Malta congratulates Arnold Cassola's Italian election
14 Arson attacks on the rise
15 Man injured in fight
16 Christ's Holy Resurrection celebrated
17 Woman held up in Sliema
18 World Cup matches to be aired free-to-air
19 200 million Euros worth of drugs seized
20 Air Malta signs ground handling agreement with Swissport
21 Curia confirms human blood on statue of Virgin Mary
22 Attempted hold-up on two elderly persons
23 Malta celebrates Pope's first election anniversary
24 Man in danger of dying after fall
25 Illegal immigrants rescued off Maltese coast
26 Car chase lands two girls in hospital
27 PN proposes Gozo as single electoral district
28 Curia to publish manual on The Da Vinci Code
29 No nominations for new Archbishop
30 Foreigner seriously injured

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a. Mother's Day e-Cards

The MaltaMedia Online Network, of which aboutmalta.com is an integral part, is once again offering free Mother's Day e-cards designed by Maltese artists Gattaldo, Francis Camilleri and Paul Mizzi. These e-cards make for a truly unique greeting on Mother's Day, which this year is celebrated on Sunday, 14 May.
 

b. Malta at the Eurovision Song Contest

EurovisionMalta.com is one of the most active Maltese websites this month. Not only does it feature information about Malta's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest since 1971, but this year Fabrizio Faniello gets full coverage as we get closer to the event to be held in Athens on Saturday, 20 May 2006. Toni Sant will be reporting live from Greece for EurovisionMalta.com, thanks to the generous support of Vodafone (Malta), Hamilton Travel and Air Malta.

30 YEARS AGO (22 May 1976)
Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi addresses a public meeting in Cospicua on the same day he is invested with the insignia of Ġieħ ir-Repubblika by President Mamo during a ceremony at the Palace in Valletta.

20 YEARS AGO (20 May 1986)
Dom Mintoff speaks in the House of Representatives for the first time since he resigned as Prime Minister on 22 December 1984.

10 YEARS AGO (18 May 1996)
Malta places tenth in the Eurovision Song Contest when 17-year old Miriam Christine Borg sings In A Woman's Heart by Paul Abela and Alfred C. Sant.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
4 May 1948: Charles Xuereb, Broadcaster
5 May 1944: Freddie Portelli, Singer/Musician
9 May 1953: Mary Rose Mallia, Singer/Entertainer
27 May 1936: Charles Abela Mizzi, Broadcaster

DEATH ANNIVERSARIES
10 May 1998: Oreste Kirkop, Tenor, dies at 75
19 May 1967: Frenc Mercieca (Frenc ta'l-Gharb), Faith Healer, dies at 75
25 May 1922: Karmni Grima, Saintly Woman associated with Ta' Pinu, dies at 84
26 May 2005: Louis Sapienza, Entrepreneur, dies at 69

See aboutmalta.com's daily full list of birthdays, deaths, and events in Maltese history.

Today in Maltese History is produced exclusively for aboutmalta.com by Mario Axiaq.

7 May 2006
Rebel Riders Annual Charity Ride
Malta's biggest motorbike event in aid of Dar il-Providenza starts at 9:30am at the Luxol Grounds in St Andrews with a drive towards Hagar Qim and Mosta arriving at the Buskett Road House at 3pm.

13 May 2006
The I Skandal EP Launch
The I Skandal release their debut EP entitled Skaccomatto under Reciprocal Records at Naasha Event Lounge, San Gwann, fusing ska and punk in a different kind of way.

20 May 2006
Eurovision Song Contest
The annual song contest organized by the European Broadcasting Union is in it's 51st year. Malta's entry at this year's edition in Greece is sung by Fabrizio Faniello.

31 May 2006
Hekk Jiżvoga l-Kantant-Poeta
POEZIJAPLUS presents a free evening of song and poetry at the Manoel Theatre Courtyard in Valletta at 7:30pm, featuring Vince Fabri, Walter Micallef, Tony Grimaud, Mark Spiteri Lucas, Rita Pace, Frank O'Neil, David Azzopardi, Frans Baldacchino (il-Budaj), Mario Debono and Manwel Mifsud.

View aboutmalta.com's full calendar for this month's events in Malta and Gozo, or to submit a future event to our calendar.