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16 May 2008:
Zorbas' Statements Prompt Reactions
Greek anti-money laundering authority chief George Zorbas' testimony on the bond case has prompted reactions. Zorbas insinuated that senior state officers committed disciplinary offences...
New Testimonies on SIEMENS Case
Two new witnesses testified as suspects to the Prosecutor Panayiotis Athanasiou who is investigating SIEMENS case. Another 5 people, former members of OTE and SIEMENS have asked and received new deadline...
Ecological Power Plant in Ikaria
Construction of the first in Europe environmentally friendly power production plant, with the use of renewable energy sources, starts today in the Pezi Rahes region, on the island of Ikaria...
Mr. Vartholomaios' Meetings
Ecumenical Patriarchal Vartholomaios is meeting now at Maximos Mansion with the Prime Minister Mr. Costas Karamanlis while earlier today he had a meeting with President of Republic Mr. Karolos Papoulias. He also visited "Parnitha Observatory"...
Back to Normal in Two Days' Time
After commercial truck owners suspended their strike, it will take at least 48 hours for the market to return to normal. The province is facing most shortages, while prices on products have gone up...
Student in Rethymno Murdered
A University student was stabbed in the chest in outside a shop near the port of Rethymno at dawn. The culprit escaped, while as per first reports a fight on a minor cause preceded the murder...
Fierce Wrangling
In reply to Papandreou and Alavanos' questions K. Karamanlis assured all at the PM's hour in Parliament that the agreement fully secures OTE and national security. In parallel, he criticized strongly PASOK...
Flights Cancelled
With the propeller-aircraft pilots continuing their strike Olympic Airlines has cancelled and altered flights With the propel...
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16 May 2008:
EU commissioner warns Greece over law capping investment in utilities
ATHENS, Greece: The EU internal market commissioner says Greece must change a new investment law to avoid being taken to the European Court of Justice. The law requires government permission for investments above 20 percent in companies Greece considers...
Mokbel coming back, with fond memories of Greek good times
AS THE van carrying Tony Mokbel veered out of the gate of Larissa prison in central Greece on the beginning of his long journey back home, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox faithful, who happened to be visiting the town, Patriarch...
Greek shares close lower led down by Marfin Popular Bank UPDATE
ATHENS (Thomson Financial) - Greek shares closed lower and underperformed European peer bourses with blue chips led down by Marfin Popular Bank Public Company Ltd. The ASE general index lost 0.5 percent to 4,230.7 and the blue chip index sank 0.9 percent...
Aid group urges Greece to improve conditions at center for immigrant children
ATHENS, Greece-Greece should improve conditions at an island detention center for scores of children who arrived as illegal immigrants this year, an aid group said Friday. A total 121 children aged 10 to 16 are being held in cramped conditions on the...
Greece now a memory
Helena Smith, Athens Tony Mokbel is escorted onto a plane yesterday. Photo: AFP AS THE van carrying Tony Mokbel veered out of the gate of Larissa prison in central Greece on the beginning of his long journey back home, the spiritual leader of the world's...
Greek shares close lower led down by Marfin Popular Bank
ATHENS (Thomson Financial) - Greek shares closed lower and underperformed European peer bourses with blue chips led down by Marfin Popular Bank Public Company Ltd. The ASE general index lost 0.5 percent to 4,230.7 and the blue chip index sank 0.9 percent...
United Nations: Budget committee takes up financing of peacekeeping missions in Cyprus, Democratic Republic of Congo
As the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) took up the $1.19 billion 2008-2009 budget proposal for the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), the African Group stressed the importance of providing...
Slight impasse over progress in Cyprus problem working groups and technical committees
THE UN Secretary General's new Special Representative Taye-Brook Zerihoun yesterday met the senior aides to the two leaders who were instrumental in setting up the working groups and technical committees. Presidential Commissioner George Iacovou and...
Cyprus will pay dearly if it fails to cut emissions
CYPRUS will have to pay heavy penalties if it does not cut its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the next few years, a lawmaker warned yesterday. Green deputy Giorgos Perdikis told the House Environment Committee that Cyprus would not achieve any goals...
Greece gets three bids for Thessalonica port
ATHENS - Reuters Greece's second largest port, Thessalonica Port Authority said on Thursday that China's Cosco Pacific, Hutchison Port Holdings and Dubai Port World DBW.DI had submitted bids to run its cargo facilities. Greece launched a tender to sell...
Vodafone Greece cuts prices for a la Carte users
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Cyprus: Laser Investment Acquires the Shaw Coffee Company
Laser Investment Plc announced the acquisition of Shaw Coffee Company, for USD 18 million .The deal is subject to a due diligence. Shaw Coffee Company is a holding company of the well-known coffee shop chain Coffee Beanery (more than 200 coffee shops)...
Greek journalists protest axing of state TV show
(Reuters) - Greece's biggest journalists' union has called on the conservative government to overturn a decision by state broadcaster ERT to scrap a well-regarded TV news show, a move that has sparked accusations of censorship. State-run ERT said this...
Greek girl found to be carrying twin
A nine-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors say. Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered...
Samskip adds Greece to its pan-European multi-modal network
Samskip has launched rail services linking Mannheim and Rotterdam with Athens and Thessaloniki, and has appointed Carel Ltd as its agent. Paul Swaak, Samskip's director of strategic development for multi-modal container logistics, pointed out that with...
Greek shares flat in early afternoon with Intralot gains offsetting MPB losses
ATHENS (Thomson Financial) - Greek shares were flat in the early afternoon and underperforming European peers with Intralot SA gains offsetting Marfin Popular Bank Public Company Ltd losses. At 1:00 p.m. the ASE general index was flat at 4,245.2 and blue...
Greeks strike to protest privatisations
The partial sale of phone company OTE was just one of the privatisations that thousands of Greek workers protested against when they went on strike and took to the streets. The civil service unions believe the sell-offs will lead to job losses and...
Greece to allow voting rights to PPC shareholders with over 5 percent stakes? ? 23 mins ago
ATHENS (Thomson Financial) - Greece will allow shareholders with a 5 percent stakeholding or more in state-controlled electricity utility Public Power Corp SA (PPC) respective voting rights, Greek minister of finance George Alogoskoufis and the European...
Greek military chief of staff to pay rare visit to Turkey
ATHENS, Greece-Greek authorities says the country's military chief will pay a rare visit to Turkey this month to discuss boosting confidence between the two regional rivals. A Defense Ministry statement says Gen. Dimitrios Grapsas will meet Turkish Gen....
Greece's Delphi retains the power to inspire
DELPHI, Greece -- Rain fell in sheets on the broken columns and stone blocks. I stood on the ancient ground where Agamemnon, Socrates and Cicero, among others, had humbly stood, hoping to get answers to their big questions. I was alone outside the ruined...
Greece extradites 'Australia's most-wanted' fugitive
A man said to be Australia?s most-wanted fugitive was being extradited from Greece today. Police put 41-year-old Tony Mokbel into a van at Korydallos prison, Athens, bound for the airport, where he was boarding a specially-chartered jet for Australia....
The economic realities of Greek-Turk relations
DAMARIS KREMIDAISTANBUL - Turkish Daily News When comparing Greek and Turkish macroeconomic indicators over the last 25 years, the clear message is that single party governments that plan wisely create better functioning economies, which in turn, engage...
Greek gov't, Deutsche Telekom, agree deal on Hellenic Telecom
ATHENS - The Associated Press The Greek government and representatives of Deutsche Telekom AG have struck a deal on sharing ownership and management control of Greece's largest telecom company, OTE, Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis said Wednesday....
Greece, Deutsche Telekom agree on OTE stake, control
ATHENS - Bloomberg Greece and Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe's biggest telephone company, reached a final agreement on the sale of a stake and management control of Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA. A meeting of ministers on state asset sales...
Greek Classicist from Norway restores Turkeys houses
It's not every day that a foreigner moves to Istanbul for its rubble. One Norwegian native and Ancient Greek classicist, Stein-Gunnar Sommerset sets out to prove that old deteriorating wooden houses in Sleymaniye are worth all the attention they can...
The Israeli embassy in Greece on Friday submitted a reply to a "statement of support" for the Palestinians, released the previous day and published by several newspapers in Greece.
Israeli reax to pro-Palestinian text The Israeli embassy in Greece on Friday submitted a reply to a 'statement of support' for the Palestinians, released the previous day and published by several newspapers in Greece, a statement which condemned...
Queen of Sofia of Spain, accompanied by Spanish ambassador to Greece, arrived on the popular Dodecanese island of Rhodes on Friday, where she was greeted by local and prefectural officials.
Queen of Sofia of Spain, accompanied by Spanish ambassador to Greece Juan Ramon Martinez Salazar, arrived on the popular Dodecanese island of Rhodes on Friday, where she was greeted by local and prefectural officials, as well as the consul of Spain on...
The deal between the Greek state and Deutsche Telekom (DT) for the management of Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation (OTE) prompted spirited exchanges in Parliament on Friday, during which Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis traded sharp words with
PM squares off against opposition over OTE deal The deal between the Greek state and Deutsche Telekom (DT) for the management of Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation (OTE) prompted spirited exchanges in Parliament on Friday, during which Prime...
The moussaka-free Greek island
Think of Greek food and caper croquettes, artichoke frittata, and snail risotto probably don't spring to mind. But Tinos - where these dishes are standard fare - is not like other Greek islands. Perhaps the food is so good because 90% of visitors are...
Greek doctors remove twin from nine-year-old girl
Doctors are seen operating on a patient. Surgeons in Larissa have removed the foetus of an undeveloped twin from the stomach of a nine-year-old Greek girl. Surgeons have removed the foetus of an undeveloped twin from the stomach of a nine-year-old Greek...
Mokbel on his way back from Greece
Australian fugitive Tony Mokbel is expected to arrive back in Australia this weekend after losing a long court battle to stay in Greece. Almost a year after his arrest in an Athens seaside suburb, Mokbel was escorted by Australian police officers onto a...
HELLENIC TO SHOW ATSHOWTIME IN HIGHPOINT BROOKLYN, NY - Hellenic Rug Imports will show for the first time during the International Textiles Marketing Association (ITMA) Showtime Trade Show in High Point, NC, June 1, to June 4, 2008. The Hellenic High
HELLENIC TO SHOW AT SHOWTIME IN HIGHPOINT BROOKLYN, NY ? Hellenic Rug Imports will show for the first time during the International Textiles Marketing Association (ITMA) Showtime Trade Show in High Point, NC, June 1, to June 4, 2008. The Hellenic High...
My Big Fat Greek Shipper
Investors dipping into shipping stocks for the first time might feel like an overwhelmed fiancee being dragged before an eccentric family for a crash course in an unfamiliar culture. Fools looking to shippers as an ancillary play on the global...
Greek utility appeals against EU decision
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Samskip adds Greece to multimodal network
European multimodal container operator Samskip has added Greece to its network of countries it serves by road and rail. To support its new offering the company has appointed Greek forwarder Carel Ltd. to be its agent in the country and launched rail...
Greece waives visa requirement for holders of UAE diplomatic passports
Greece waives visa requirement for holders of UAE diplomatic passportsMay 14, 2008 - 04:56 - Abu Dhabi, May 14th, 2008 (WAM) - Greece has agreed to waive visa requirement for holders of UAE diplomatic passports.In 2005, the cabinet has issued resolution...
Online Casino Pays Out Largest Ever Customer Win in Greece
(London, UK) Last week, Sportingbet.com congratulated a lucky Greek customer on his 940,966 jackpot win by flying him and five of his friends and family to London to receive his winnings and celebrate his incredible good fortune. After toasting his win...
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16 May 2008:
Greeks Strike Against Privatisation - Infoshop News
Greeks Strike Against Privatisation Infoshop News - 15 minutes ago OTE's being given away to Deutsche Telekom, without the Greek people getting any of the money." Commented Stathis Anestis, GSEE ( Greece ’s largest union ......
Union strikes disrupt services in Greece - Niagara Falls Review
Union strikes disrupt services in Greece Niagara Falls Review, Canada - 30 minutes ago Major Greek unions are again on strike to protest government privatization plans and changes to the country's pension system. The strikes Thursday disrupted ......
‘And the Envelope, Please…’ - Rockwall County Herald Banner
‘And the Envelope, Please…’ Rockwall County Herald Banner, tx - 58 minutes ago The “This Still Won’t Get You on the Howard Stern Show” award goes to the three citizens of the Greek island of Lesbos who have sued a gay rights group for ......
Ninis Given Greece Chance - Soccer365
Ninis Given Greece Chance Soccer365, AL - 1 hour ago Panathinaikos starlet Sotiris Ninis has been handed a late chance to stake his claim for a place in Greece's Euro 2008 quad after being named in Otto ......
Child Migrants on Hunger Strike - TIME
Child Migrants on Hunger Strike TIME - 1 hour ago Europe's increasingly dire struggle with illegal immigration reached a new extreme this month as child migrants held on a Greek island launched a hunger ......
Improved Economies Will Lead to More Visa Waiver Agreements - NewsBlaze
Improved Economies Will Lead to More Visa Waiver Agreements NewsBlaze, CA - 1 hour ago Barth said in his meetings with Greek authorities earlier in 2008 he was presented with a draft memorandum of understanding that differed greatly from the ......
Report Examines Reasons Behind Fast-Tracking Greek-Russian Gas ... - RedOrbit
Report Examines Reasons Behind Fast-Tracking Greek -Russian Gas ... RedOrbit, TX - 2 hours ago ... 10 of them through Greek soil, from south Russia and Europe. One reason the Russians wanted to fast-track the agreement with Greece over South Stream, ......
Go Greek at Oakland's Greek Festival - Alameda Times-Star
Go Greek at Oakland's Greek Festival Alameda Times-Star, CA - 25 minutes ago It's at the Ascension Greek Orthodox Cathedral in the Oakland hills, and merely being there is a mini trip to Greece . 2) Go ancient. ......
Go Greek at Oakland's Greek Festival - Tri Valley Herald
Go Greek at Oakland's Greek Festival Tri Valley Herald, CA - 29 minutes ago It's at the Ascension Greek Orthodox Cathedral in the Oakland hills, and merely being there is a mini trip to Greece . 2) Go ancient. ......
Go Greek at Oakland's Greek Festival - Oakland Tribune
Go Greek at Oakland's Greek Festival Oakland Tribune, CA - 33 minutes ago It's at the Ascension Greek Orthodox Cathedral in the Oakland hills, and merely being there is a mini trip to Greece . 2) Go ancient. ......
Birmingham keeper ruled out of Irish camp - eleven-a-side.com
Birmingham keeper ruled out of Irish camp eleven-a-side.com, Ireland - 1 hour ago It’sa massive tournament, more open than the World Cup (two of the last four winners are Denmark and Greece ). There is real uncertainty at the start, ......
The Geopolitics of Israel: Biblical and Modern - istockAnalyst.com
The Geopolitics of Israel: Biblical and Modern istockAnalyst.com, OR - 1 hour ago The nature of this second manifestation changed in the fourth century BC, when Greece overran the Persian Empire and Israel, and again in the first century ......
Modern day Indiana Joneses dig in - San Mateo County Times
Modern day Indiana Joneses dig in San Mateo County Times, CA - 1 hour ago Shelton spent 12 years as a full-time archaeologist at Mycenae, one of the great Greek city-states and home to legendary king Agamemnon, hero of Homer's ......
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