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Bluefin tuna is so highly prized that it is being driven to extinction from the high seas due to intensive and often illegal fishing.

The Sustaining Ethical Aquaculture Trade (SEAT) project was nominated for the Times Higher Education Award for International Collaboration of the Year.

Over the past weeks and months, PLAYMOBIL’s Santa Claus figure has been reaching the shelves of toy shops around the world. However, few of us know that all these figures are made in Malta and that the Santa Claus figure is still assembled by hand.

FIMBank plc and London Forfaiting Company Ltd, both forming part of the FIMBank Group, were recently declared Best Factoring House and Best Boutique Trade Finance Institution respectively by international trade finance magazine Global Trade Review.

- In an effort to improve access for rock climbers within the popular climbing site of Wied il-Għasel, the Malta Rock Climbing Club (MRCC) recently uncovered sections of a staircase which forms part of the Victoria Lines defensive wall.

Krzysztof Maksymowicz of Poland was awarded the first prize for his photograph ‘dress maker’ at the Healthy Workplaces Summit in Bilbao.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, FIMBank plc, the Malta-based trade finance bank, and BICBANCO launched BRASILFACTORS to offer domestic and cross border factoring and complementary services to Brazilian corporates and SMEs.

PLAYMOBIL Malta recently hosted a visit by representatives of German-speaking media organisations.

A national jury comprising Dr. Angelo Chetcuti, Ian Busuttil Naudi, and Tony Tanti, will be responsible for assessing the entries and selecting the Maltese winning drawing in a pan-European competition on “Space and Aeronautics”.

Twenty-one tourist destinations from across Europe were awarded the title of ‘2011 European Destination of Excellence in Tourism and Regeneration of Physical Sites’ at a Gala Awards ceremony in Brussels on 27 September 2011.