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  • 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 - ...

  • New Greek bailout unveiled to contain debt crisis

    President of European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (R), President of European Council Herman Van Rompuy (C) and Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou attend the press conference after the Eurozone Emergency Summit in Brussels, Capital of Belgium, July 21, 2011. Eurozone leaders Thursday agreed on a second bailout package for Greeece, with a total official financing of an estimated 109 ...

  • Greek Government Readies Cuts to Pensions Wages Ta Nea Says

    Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras yesterday presented a 14 billion-euro package of spending cuts to Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, Athens-based newspaper Ta Nea reported, without citing anyone. The package, which includes cuts of between 2 percent and 20 percent to pensions and as much as a 35 percent reduction in pay for employees in state-run companies, will be finalised in talks ...

  • St. Louis County Greek Fest is underway

    ST. LOUIS COUNTY (KSDK) - The St. Louis County Greek Fest is underway right now in Town & Country. There's Greek music and dancing, a market place, and of course fantastic Greek food. The festival runs through Sunday at Assumption Greek Orthodox Church on Des Peres Road. For more information on the Greek ...


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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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  • Inside the Greece ETF

    After six years of recession and three years after bailout, the Greek economy is finally showing some level of growth in 2014. In return for its international bailout, Greece has imposed several rounds of stringent austerity measures, including sweeping spending cuts and a series of tax hikes, in an effort to reform its economy. Since the recession, the country whose growth contracted more than ...

  • Try an authentic Greek wine for summer sipping

    This Greek wines goe great with simple, grilled fish. When it comes to light and refreshing summer wines, the white wines of Greece remain below the radar but are well worth considering. Although Greek wine prices have edged up in the last few years, making them not quite the bargains they once were, it's still possible to find some very good values.One of them is ...

  • IMF chief Lagarde to be assisting witness in corruption trial

    IMF chief Christine Lagarde says a Paris court has named her as a key witness in an investigation into a controversial payoff to an outspoken businessman arranged while she was Frances finance minister.The status ...

  • Industries protest over delays in drop of energy costs

    By Chryssa Liaggou Energy-intensive industries on Friday protested a delay in measures announced a couple of months ago for reducing energy costs and for ironing out the electricity market distortions that significantly jack up the price of each kilowatt/hour of ...

  • Tourism arrivals confirm record expectations

    By Stathis Kousounis The first official data on tourism have vindicated expectations for a record year, as Bank of Greece figures show a 4.6 percent increase in the number of arrivals to Greece in the first three months of the year.The total number of arrivals exceeded 1 million in the off-season.Despite the increase in total arrivals, however, the number of tourists coming by air declined by ...

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