Editorial.
In this issue of the Journal we have again many valuable articles. Two are on the history of the island: one on the power of women during the Lusignan period, and another on the projects of opening a Maltese colony on the island, which gives us further clues to...

Travel Security Update.
Aug 27, 2007 DHS to test potential passport alternative. Vermont and the DHS plan to increase the security of the state's driver's licenses in an attempt to create an alternative document in compliance with the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative. The project is similar to an ongoing initiative...

Cities in conflict.
4561 Architects without Frontiers: War, Reconstruction and Design Responsibility, by Esther Charlesworth. Architectural Press, Oxford, 2006 [our copy from Elsevier Australia, 30-52 Smidmore Street, Marrickville 2204]. 175 pp. ill., index. Price: $A 92.50. In this book Esther Charlesworth, an Australian architect, traces her journey living...

Nursin Atesoglu Guney (ed.), Contentious Issues of Security and the Future of Turkey.
Nursin Atesoglu Guney (ed.), Contentious Issues of Security and the Future of Turkey (Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007) ISBN: 978-0-7546-49311; xvii, 197 pp; $ 99.95. This is a valuable book that enables the reader to acquire an extensive view of the security affairs of Turkey and to familiarize with...

TV 18 ties up with HK PE fund.
Byline: Vivek Sinha & Chaitali Chakravarty NEW DELHI: The promoters of TV 18 group led by Raghav Bahl have formed a 75:25 global joint venture with Hong Kong-based private equity fund Saif Partners to float general entertainment and info-commercials' television channels. Interestingly, the scope of the joint...

Mallya buys US vodka co Liquidity.
BANGALORE: Vijay Mallya-led United Spirits (USL), the third-largest global liquor marketer by volume, is acquiring Liquidity - a US-based maker of specialty vodkas. The deal size for the start-up company is $3 million. Delaware-based Liquidity produces specialty brands like Pinky Vodka and Marakesh, a vodka liqueur. "We are acquiring...

Overseas investment jumps 180%.
NEW DELHI: India Inc increased its overseas investments by a whopping 180% in 2006-07 as compared with the corresponding period in the previous fiscal. While Indian companies invested close to $8 billion overseas in the previous fiscal, total investments abroad stood at a meagre $3 billion in comparison in...

Language, culture and identity in applied linguistics; proceedings.
9781845532192 Language, culture and identity in applied linguistics; proceedings. Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (2005: Bristol, UK) Ed. by Richard Kiely et al. Equinox Publishing Limited 2006 223 pages $42.50 Paperback...

India Inc's overseas investment jumps 180%.
NEW DELHI: India Inc increased its overseas investments by a whopping 180% in 2006-07 compared to the corresponding period in the previous fiscal. While the domestic companies invested close to $8 billion overseas in the previous fiscal, total investments abroad stood at a meagre $3 billion in 2005-06. ...

Past appeal.
Byline: Neha Dewan There is something mysterious about antiques. It's almost as if they unfold a story that goes way back in time. Now that certainly does arouse curiousity, doesn't it? Perhaps that's what even prompts some to create beautiful replicas of famous antiques. SundayET finds out...