June 2010

Newsletter Number 129

June marks a very important anniversary for us at aboutmalta.com because on the 1st of June 1999 the MaltaMedia Online News service started appearing daily on the Internet. Over the past eleven years, the MaltaMedia Online News service has remained the only truly independent web-based news provider from Malta.

Following yet another apparently pointless debate around the Eurovision Song Contest, the public imagination of the Maltese Islands is seeking the next event to wrap its head around. Whatever it is, you can rest assured that the MaltaMedia Online Network will be on it on one way or another. It’s also likely to you’ll find interesting comments about some of them on the Maltese Blogosphere.

Toni Sant
Consulting Editor

1. MaltaMedia.com Daily News from May 2010

01 Video: Woman in danger after traffic accident
02 President Abela returns from China on Monday
03 British man caught with kilo of heroin
04 Video: Man severly burnt in fireworks factory explosion
05 Man imprisoned for defrauding establishments
06 Video: Thea Garrett promoting My Dream in Europe
07 Labour MPs walk out of Parliament in protest
08 President discharged from hospital
09 Malta Journalism Awards announced
10 Expensive jewellery stolen in daring robbery
11 Man acquitted of attempted murder
12 Ryanair to inaugurate Malta base on 18th May
13 Exotique sues PBS over Thea Garrett rights
14 Video: Almost 6,000 immigrants arrived in 3 years
15 Video: 91 rape cases in four years
16 Woman seriously injured in car accident
17 First Maltese reach Mt Everest summit
18 16 new airline routes to and from Malta
19 49-year-old man dies in Valletta car crash
20 Update:Malta hit by major powercut, again
21 Man seriously injured in argument
22 Father and son charged with attempted murder
23 Video: Film about fireworks enthusiast proving popular
24 Ċensu Galea to be nominated as Deputy Speaker
25 Video: Malta does not qualify for Eurovision Final
26 Video: Malta needs to re-think Eurovision selection process
27 Video: Grace Borg speaks about Thea Garrett
28 Elderly couple hospitalised after arson attack
29 Electricity tariffs in Malta 5th highest in EU
30 Cancelled flights dues to ash cost Air Malta €3.5m
31 Video: Bread seller in danger of dying

• Take a look back at the month of May 2010 in video.
  

2. Top Web Picks

a. MaltaMedia.com News on Facebook

Now in its 11th year online, the MaltaMedia.com New Service is also available on Facebook. You can easily add the latest news and information updates from Malta to your Facebook livestream just by adding yourself to the websites followers on Facebook. It’s a great way to keep tabs on the longest standing online live information service from the Maltese Islands. You can read all the headlines and summaries on Facebook itself and you can get the full details on the latest update with one simple click.

b. Skola Ħbieb

Years before Facebook conquered the online world, Maltese Internet users had their very own way to reconnect and keep in touch with their old school mates. Since 2001 Skola Ħbieb has registered 11,134 members and the number keeps on growing on a regular basis. While Facebook and other popular global social media networks offer wonderful opportunities to get develop all sorts of friendships, Skola Ħbieb is geared mainly towards enabling you to stay in touch with your old classmates. Some of these friendships span decades and they’re all based on face-to-face interactions over an extended number of years. If you went to school in Malta it’s almost impossible not to find someone you know on the Skola Ħbieb website.

3. This Month in Maltese History

40 YEARS AGO ( 14 June 1970 )
Philippe Thiollier is appointed first French Ambassador to Malta.

20 YEARS AGO (7 June 1990 )
Four Maltese are reporting missing aboard their yacht Esmeralda 20 miles South-East of Sardinia, Italy.

10 YEARS AGO ( 1 June 2000 )
Grazio’s Malta Virtwali, the first Malta-related website, is officially relaunched as aboutmalta.com by the MaltaMedia Online Network.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
10 June 1957: Vicki Ann Cremona, Lecturer/Diplomat
21 June 1945: Tanya Bayona, Choreographer
30 June 1934: Mary Rose Bonello, Actress
30 June 1978: Miriam Christine Borg, Pop Singer

DEATH ANNIVERSARIES
10 June 1993: Francis Ebejer, Educator/Playwright/Writer, dies at 68
22 June 1983: Francis “Cikku” Saliba, Superior General MUSEUM, dies at 73
23 June 1976: Albert Cassola, Writer, dies at 59
25 June 2002: Lady Margaret Mamo, former First Lady

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