EU launches anti-smoking campaign

The European Union launched today in all its 25 members a new anti-smoking campaign, under the slogan ‘HELP – For a life without tobacco’, at an estimated cost of 72 million euro.

Cyprus tops asylum requests

Cyprus, compared to national population size, received the largest number of asylum requests during 2000-2004, with 22 asylum-seekers per 1,000 inhabitants According to a 2004 report on asylum levels and trends in

Medicine prices slashed by 25%

The prices of some 920 medicines were slashed by an average 25% Tuesday, as part of the government’s policy to reduce the household costs. Though the majority of medicine prices remained the

Trade and funding are separate

Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides said the government continues to believe that two European Union regulations (on direct trade with the Turkish occupied north and on allocation of funds to the Turkish Cypriots)