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Anti-Greek Backlash in Salonica, 1821
From Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950, by Mark Mazower (Vintage, 2006), pp. 126-129: The Greeks in the city rang their church bells, rode through the streets on horseback, wore fine clothes and...
Greece:Egyptian mills to start buying Greek cotton in Feb 2010
Sales are continuing on a daily basis in small volumes. Lately there is demand from Turkish spinners at relative high prices, while some international merchants are trying to increase their position on our crop. The latest...
PM looks for way back
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis is still considered a much better leader than PASOK's George Papandreou, according to a survey made public yesterday, although New Democracy party members are growing increasingly restless about...
Grim figures for industrial sector in June
An employee is seen working at an industrial plant in Serres, northern Greece, in this file photo. Data made public by the National Statistical Service (NSS) yesterday showed industrial turnover in June fell 26.8 percent...
Leaders’ wealth questions persist
The personal wealth of Greece's political leaders remained largely unchanged between 2006 and 2007, according to documents made public yesterday, although questions have been raised once again as to whether the checks on...
OTE’s IPTV reaches 25 cities
Greek former monopoly telco OTE has launched its IPTV services in five additional cities, bringing the total number of cities covered to 25. OTE’s ‘conn-x TV’ television-over-ADSL service was soft launched in October 2008 in...
Bulgaria: Summer Road Toll Rises
Two people, travelling in a sedan car on the Pleven-Rousse road, died on Tuesday when their vehicle collided head-on with a truck while travelling in the oncoming lane, in the latest of a series of deaths on Bulgaria’s roads as...
E-crime squad alert to youths’ suicide plans
Officers from the police's electronic crimes unit said yesterday that they had averted the suicides of 17 youngsters who had expressed their intention to take their own lives in comments posted in Internet chat rooms over the...
Two Mediterranean Summer Festivals
to watch. Attending a festival can give your luxury Mediterranean holiday an interesting twist. Festo de Sao Joao Midsummer festivals in the Mediterranean are momentous occasions. One of the most entertaining is the Festo de...
No One Wins?
For the last week, I’ve been away in Devon, celebrating my friend Nagapriya ‘s birthday. If philosophy is a kind of practice, then questions of tone, and questions of how we actually engage with each other, questions of the...
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