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. The European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, Cypriot Markos Kyprianou said that eight out of ten smokers start in their teenage years
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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 industrialised countries, released today by the United Nations, the number of asylum-seekers in 2004 was the highest on record for Cyprus. According to
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Government Spokesman Kypros Chrysostomides has 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) must not be linked. EU member states have approved the funds to help the economic development of the Turkish Cypriots, whose leadership
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It should have been part and parcel with the NHS The government’s forced reduction in the prices of some 920 medicines was premature, as it was not introduced within a greater plan of starting the national health service (NHS), according to a leading pharmaceuticals representative. Katia Polycarpou Gritzali, General Manager of the GlaxoSmithKline operations in
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BP Eastern Mediterranean has signed a fuels storage agreement with the Cyprus Oil Terminal Ltd., formerly the Cyprus Petroleum Refinery Ltd,. in Larnaca for 25,000 cubic metres in extra storage capacity, to be used initially for jet fuel. COTL has transformed its business to a storage terminal and services company ever since the refinery was
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CLR Securities & Financial Services, a member of CLR Capital maintained its lead as the brokerage firm with the biggest market share, lifting its market share in February to 18.44% and since the start of 2005 to 18.84%, data released by the CSE show. Sharelink Securities & Financial Services, a member of SFS Public Co.
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Chemicals boom Industrial output rose year on year for its second consecutive month in December 2004, rising by 2.5% compared with December, following a 4.3% year-on-year increase in November. Manufacturing rose year on year by 0.5% in December, Electricity gas and water by 11.0% while mining fell by 0.6%. The Index of Industrial Production (Base
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