Greek tourism photo competition May 26, 2007
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The Tourism Development Ministry and the Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) this week opened a tourism photography competition in the context of promoting Greece’s tourism.
The subjects of the competition are: Tourism and Culture, Tourism and Vacations, and Tourism and Major Greek Cities.
There is also a tourism photography competition for young people aged 12-17 years and a competition for designing a tourism poster.
Participants can send their entries to the GNTO by June 5.
For more information visit > www.gnto.gr
Billboard cleanup going to happen, at last May 26, 2007
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Deputy Interior Minister Thanassis Nakos yesterday distributed an urgent circular to regional authorities urging them to take down roadside advertising signs and billboards.
The circular asked authorities to intensify checks, impose fines where necessary, and follow guidelines set down by the Ministry.
The Amber Alert system established in Greece May 26, 2007
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Public Order Minister Vyron Polydoras yesterday inaugurated at the Syntagma metro station a US-devised system to help find missing children on the occasion of International Missing Children’s Day.
The Amber Alert system, named after 9-year-old Amber Hagerman who was kidnapped and murdered in 1996 in Texas, uses a variety of techniques to brief police, media and the public early when a child disappears.
“We are ready to serve this system, from the first patrol car to receive an alert to our most specialized units,” Polydoras said.
The system is reportedly capable of putting the whole country on alert within 30 minutes of a disappearance being reported. A total of 40 state and private organizations, including local media firms, are to cooperate in implementing the system which makes use of emergency media bulletins, the mass distribution of SMS messages and electronic signs on highways and railways.
“The cooperation of local media is of the utmost importance,” said the Head of the Child Protection Agency Hamogelo tou Paidiou (Child’s Smile) Constantinos Yiannopoulos.
City of Kozani tackles asbestos May 26, 2007
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Authorities in Kozani, northern Greece, have launched a campaign to curb pollution from a disused asbestos mine which they believe poses a health risk to the local population.
More than 10 million have been earmarked for environmental restoration, including soil treatment, the planting of trees, cementing over large areas of pure asbestos and burying more asbestos in specially designed areas built to safely contain the carcinogenic mineral.
“In cooperation with the government, the region can be restored and returned to the local community,” Kozani Prefect Giorgos Dakis told daily Kathimerini in a recent interview. Dakis said the project would be undertaken by trained staff using all the necessary protective measures.
According to local environmental experts, the air blows asbestos particles into local communities. Over the years, these contribute to lung problems and can even cause cancer, experts say. The particles are also polluting the local Aliakmon River, which gets into the water via rainfall and local streams, according to environmentalists.
Greek ports security systems tender May 26, 2007
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The Greek government is promoting the concession of the security for the 12 biggest ports of Greece to a public-private partnership (PPP).
In the next few days, it will proclaim a tender to commission a consultant. The project of installing security systems at ports via a PPP has a 340-million-euro budget and the contract with the private party will have an eight-year duration, while its payment will also derive from the container levy that the state receives today.
The fact that a consultant will be hired to realize this PPP contract is crucial, as the state will not determine the technical specifications of the security systems but only the level of security desired for port installations as defined by community and international regulations.
Art and inspiration in Hermes window May 26, 2007
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Exhibited in the display window of Hermes until August 20.
Last year it was Nikos Alexiou’s work that graced the windows of Hermes; this year it is Socrates Socratous’s turn with his “Paradise Found.”
The display was unveiled on May 14. It is the second time Hermes has given a Greek artist the opportunity to show his work in an environment that will attract passers-by. Socratous’s work will be on show until August 20. At the opening were Frank-Mathias Kunterman, Hermes’s Director for Europe and the Middle East, Cyprus Ambassador Giorgos Giorgis, Phaedon Stratos and Dimitris Papaioannou, among others.
Special Olympics evening for sponsors May 26, 2007
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At the Nasioutzik Museum in the green fields of Spata, the Special Olympics Panhellenic Games Organizing Committee, now celebrating its 20th anniversary, hosted its sponsors for this year’s Games, which have attracted athletes from all over Greece and Cyprus.
The Committee’s President, Yianna Despotopoulou, took the opportunity to congratulate and thank the sponsors for their contribution. The host of the evening was Giorgos Nasioutzik.
For further information >
Nasioutzik Museum and Vineyard, 19004 Spata, Attica, Greece
Tel 210 6632000, Fax 210 6633223
http://www.ktimanasioutzik.gr
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