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  • Greece modifies DEPA privatisation terms source

    ATHENS: Greece agreed to change some terms in the planned privatisation of natural gas distributor DEPA, opening the way for Russian energy giant Gazprom to bid for the firm, a senior official directly involved in the sale talks said on ...

  • A Child Missing Every Day In Greece

    ATHENS - Between runaways and abductions, an average of a child a day in Greece so far is taken away from the family home, and 97 are still missing, the children's charity Smile of the Child has said, hoping to put a spotlight on the problem to coincide with International Missing Children's day on May 25. In the first four months of the year, the agency said that 138 minors ...

  • Doing the job despite problems

    Greek police officers are doing a fine job despite considerable cuts in their salaries coupled by major shortages in equipment and infrastructure.Through their behavior and professionalism, members of the police force are proving every day that the notions of pride, dignity and duty have not disappeared from Greek society.These men and women ought to serve as an example to a portion of public ...

  • Don’t forget the small and medium-sized companies

    While the country waits for an influx of major investment that is expected to create new jobs in the distant future, it is absolutely vital to bolster small to medium-sized companies as fast as possible. These companies were hit by the crisis harder than anyone else and probably generated the biggest number of unemployed people, and the most defenseless for that matter.Unfortunately both the ...

  • Leftist prophets of doom

    By Babis Papadimitriou Ducking constructive policy opposition, SYRIZA chief Alexis Tsipras recently chose to scoff at the first serious signs of Greek economic ...


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Sword of the Beast (Kedamono no ken) [DVD]

Sword of the Beast (Kedamono no ken) [DVD]

When we first meet Yuuki Gennosuke (Mikijiro Hira), the hero of Hideo Goshas Sword of the Beast (Kedamono no ken), he appears to be a simple criminal on the lam, hiding out in the dirt of a grassy field while his pursuers track him down. Yet, as we soon learn via ... ...

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  • Young Greeks Won’t Vote For MEP’s

    Showing how deep the disaffection with politics has become, with 64 percent of those under 25 unemployed because of crushing austerity measures, 47 percent of Greece’s young said they won’t even vote anymore and won’t go to the polls in next May’s European Parliament elections. That is far lower than their peers in the other 26 European Union countries, according to the ...

  • Diamantopoulou Breaks From PASOK Too

    With his party sinking to the 5 percent level in the polls and 116 million euros ($150 million) in debt, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos now has lost another former minister who has broken away to form a rival party. Former Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou – who had gone along with Venizelos’ support of crushing austerity measures - said she wants to woo other ...

  • Ancient Messene Theater Reopens in August

    For more than 600 years the ancient theater of Messene had hosted cultural and political events attended by major historical figures of the time, such as King Philip V of Macedonia and the Achean skilled general Philopoemen of Megalopolis. After a long period of silence and abandonment that lasted some 1,700 years, the theater will reopen its gates to the public this ...

  • Greek economy in dire need of reforms

    Greece is in need of radical reforms to its pension system if it is to cease being a burden on longer-term fiscal sustainability, and to prevent a rise in pension costs that would otherwise see these accounting for more than 20 per cent of GDP by 2050, warns the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In ...

  • The Inside Of Greeces Growing Sex Industry

    (Photo/Myrto Papadopoulos) ATHENS - It wasn't just Myrto Papadopoulos, a photojournalist with a sharp eye and a deep desire to understand a society she grew up in but no longer recognized, who was enraged at the sight of 12 HIV-infected women plastered over the front pages of Greek newspapers and labeled prostitutes in April 2012. The names, faces and personal information of the women - ...

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