Turkey hopes to start the process of opening chapters of the EU acquis communautaire in March, according to Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking on Friday. Turkey has 35 chapters to ‘negotiate’ between now and membership, although as others have pointed out, negotiations are somewhat of a misnoma, since all of the acquis communautaire
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Worldwide sales of semiconductors increased by 7.2% in November compared to the same month in 2004, the Semiconducter Industry Association (SIA) said Tuesday. November sales were 20.4 billion dollars. Sales were up 1.7% sequentially from the 20.1 billion dollars reported for October. “Strong holiday season sales of consumer products such as cell phones, digital cameras,
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Market cap up by CYP 1.1 bln The Cyprus Stock Exchange index, GENX ended 2005 with gains of 51.63% marking its first positive performance following four years of declines and probably one of the best returns among emerging markets. The GENX, which made its first debut in March 1996 from a base of 100 and
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The Cyprus Statistical Service has announced that the number of building permits authorised by the municipal authorities and the district administration offices during October 2005 stood at 812. The total value of these permits reached CYP 128.0 mln and the total area 329.0 thousand square metres. These building permits provide for the construction of 1,630
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Cypriot national Garabet Jikergian, who was held captive in Baghdad for five months, was released on Saturday night, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced here Monday. Expressing satisfaction over Jikergian’s release, who also has Lebanese nationality, the ministry said it was informed yesterday by his family about his release. Jikergian is expected to return home
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Mobile phone users are no longer content with making phone calls or sending text messages, while makers are responding by offering other functions such as games. Mobile phone operators and television broadcasts have introduced games for mobile phones, and personal computer makers, along with games console developers are constantly bringing new games to the market.
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