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Macedonia Press Review - June 04, 2012
DNEVNIK The trend of expensive real-estate in the capital Skopje will continue, experts say for the daily.
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New Quake Registered in Southern Bulgaria
Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Experts from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences are adamant that the Sunday evening shocks are not new, but secondary and that there is no connection between ... (more)
Bulgaria to Join Balkan Livex Military Drills in Macedonia's Krivolak
Hotels 5* Hotels 4* Hotels 3* Apartment Houses Restaurants Rent-a-car Casino Golf Resorts Mountain resorts Sea resorts Entertainment Shopping Health Clinics Public Safety Vaults Beauty Salons Servicemen from Bulgaria's military base 32A 990 in Plovdiv are going to participate in the international military drills " Balkan Livex " 2012 in Macedonia , ... (more)
On Greece's political system, Olympic medals, crisis, eurozone exit
Maybe the end of the Greece we all knew... Half a century ago I set foot on my mother's land for the first time... It then took 18 hours to reach Patmos by boats called the Despina or the Agamemnon.
FYROM's companies to improve operations through excellence practices
Skopje hosts Thursday the first Business Excellence Show in FYR Macedonia, with about 30 experts transferring international excellence practices to FYR Macedonia's companies.Vice Premier for Economic Affairs Vladimir Pesevski opened the show, saying the aspiration towards these... The first thing you need to do is choose a news reader, if you ... (more)
FYROM and Poland sign protocol on liberalization of commodity transport
A protocol for liberalization of commodity transport was signed at the meeting of the FYR Macedonian - Polish committee on international road traffic for commodities and passengers, held in Skopje over the past two days.Representatives of competent ministries from both countries... The first thing you need to do is choose a news reader, if you ... (more)
A Front-Row Seat At A Bank Run
A decade ago, investors thought Greece would flourish on the euro. Money poured in, and banks started lending it out.
Crossing the Sun: The Last Transit of Venus until 2117
Next week will be the last opportunity this century to see the planet Venus as a little black dot moving across the solar disk--a rare event with a long, important history in astronomy Image: Jay M. Pasachoff, David Butts, Joseph Gangestad, and Owen Westbrook with John Seiradakis and George Asimellis ; expedition run with Bryce Babcock and Glenn ... (more)
Few Thousand Macedonian Misunderstanders of Islam Protest Arrests in Murder of Five Christians
Back in March, PI reported about the numerous outbreaks of violence between the Muslim-Albanian minority and the non-Muslim-Slavic majority in Macedonia.
'The Serpent's Egg is Always Ready to Hatch'
On Tuesday, members of the Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party held torches and chanted "Foreigners out of Greece!" as they marched through central Athens ahead of the country's new elections.
A group of 20 people wearing helmets attacked a PAOK soccer fan club with Molotov cocktail bombs in Thessaloniki on Wednesday.
The many faces of unemployment in northern Greece
Unemployment has many different faces. It is one thing to be unemployed when another member of your household still has a job, another when you are part of a group thatA's been fired from the same company, yet another when you live in a city where everything appears to continue as normal while you sit at home with nothing to do, and something quite ... (more)
Art theft in deserted Balkan churches on the rise
Religious valuables in the region are the growing target of thieves -- especially in villages that were deserted during the 1990s conflicts.
Macedonian Opposition Challenges PM's 'Name' Resolve
In a bid to shake Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's image as a tough defender of Macedonia in the 'name' dispute with Greece, opposition accuses him of making unprincipled moves in the past.
Giant Mother Teresa to Adorn Macedonia Square
After the giant statue of Alexander the Great erected last year and that of his father Philip that was erected last week, Mother Teresa's statue will be the third giant monument to join the centre of Skopje as part of the government-funded "Skopje 2014" revamp of the city.
Macedonia Puritans Dress Up Skopje Statue
Municipal authorities in the Macedonian capital Skopje have quickly made arrangements to have a recently erected bronze statue of naked Prometheus covered up, following complaints from unidentified "women's organizations". The complaints - and the speedy official response - have sparked debate, and some have acccused the authorities of hypocrisy.
Steep battle for Macedonian gold asset
Clancy, which listed in mid-2007, and Genesis, which debuted in 2009, have until this year enjoyed the deservedly low profiles of fledgling exploration companies yet to strike it big.