Kathimerini | Cosco chief calls on fellow Chinese to invest in Greece Kathimerini Chinese group Cosco is evolving from a strategic investor in Piraeus into a strategic ally of Greece, as its head, Captain Wei Jiafu, said on Thursday while signing the agreement for the expansion of Dock III of the country's biggest port that he will ... Twin Win For Greece, TAP and COSCO Samaras: Greece welcomes more investment from China Government of Greece and Tap sign Host Government Agreement |
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Cosco chief calls on fellow Chinese to invest in Greece
Uncle George's Greek Tavern, fixture of Astoria restaurant scene, owed about ...
New York Daily News | Uncle George's Greek Tavern, fixture of Astoria restaurant scene, owed about ... New York Daily News The closing of a beloved Greek eatery has signified the end of an era in Astoria's increasingly trendy restaurant scene. Uncle George's Greek Tavern was forced out of its longtime storefront in the heart of the busy neighborhood after a rent dispute ... |
EU pledges ?6bn to tackle youth unemployment
Leaders at summit in Brussels determine to bring down youth unemployment rates which are as high as 50% in some areas
European leaders pledged last night to launch a battery of new measures to combat the scourge of youth unemployment, following three years of austerity policies and spending cuts that have contributed to soaring jobless rates.
But the EU summit in Brussels did not raise new funds to help combat the problem in countries such as Greece, Spain or Portugal; instead, it ordered a rediversion of money from within the EU budget. After months of wrangling, the various warring EU institutions also agreed a new seven-year €960bn (£820bn) budget. The summit decided to devote €6bn of that to fighting unemployment, prioritising the resources on regions where youth unemployment is higher than 25%.
In addition, the European Investment Bank is to borrow on the markets to increase lending to small businesses in an attempt to bypass the credit crunch and encourage the hiring of school-leavers.
The €6bn is expected to have limited impact in countries like Spain or Greece where official figures show youth unemployment exceeding 50% following years of austerity policies.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor fighting for a third term in September, also wants to counter youth unemployment. She has convened another European summit in Berlin next week devoted to the issue.
Senior European officials conceded that the two-day summit opening on Thursday evening was an exercise in treading water, with all decisions of substance in the EU being put off until after Germany's general election on 22 September. The next summit is scheduled for October.
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Greece's road haulage sector see revenues slide as costs rise Kathimerini Revenues in Greece's road haulage sector have dropped 52 percent in the last four years as the cost of fuel and tolls has risen by almost 325 percent during the same period, according to research compiled by the Transport Institute. There are roughly ... |
Meet This Years Google Science Fair Finalists
Google just announced this year's 15 finalists in the Google Science Fair. Projects include everything from cancer detection to environmental protection.
These kids are chosen from a pool of 90 semi-finalists. Five projects are chosen in each age group from all over the world — Canada, USA, Russia, Singapore, India, Greece, Turkey and Australia.
On September 23 the finalists will present their projects to an international panel of esteemed scientists for judging. The Grand Prize winner will receive a 10-day trip to the Galapagos Islands with National Geographic Expeditions, $50,000 in scholarship funding and more.
Elif Bilgin developed a way to use banana peels, instead of petroleum, to make bio-plastics.
Elif Bilgin has developed a way to use banana peels to make bio-plastics, instead of relying on traditional petroleum. She comes from Turkey, and is 16.
In this project, I developed a method for making plastic by using banana peels and found new areas for the use of the plastic that I manufactured: using the bio-plastic in the making of cosmetic prosthesis and in the insulation of cables.
This project was done over a time period of 2 years. During this time period, I was able to succeed in my endeavor to manufacture plastic that can actually be used in daily life.
She was also crowned the Scientific American Science In Action winner, which honors a project that "makes a practical difference by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge." She gets $50,000 and and a year’s worth of mentoring from Scientific American to help develop her project.
Her role model is Marie Curie.
Ann Makosinski made a flashlight that runs on body heat.
Ann Makosinski is a 16-year-old Canadian. For her project, she designed a flashlight that runs solely off of body heat. She describes her project:
Using four Peltier tiles and the temperature difference between the palm of the hand and ambient air, I designed a flashlight that provides bright light without batteries or moving parts. My design is ergonomic, thermodynamically efficient, and only needs a five degree temperature difference to work and produce up to 5.4 mW at 5 foot candles of brightness.
She's been inspired by Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, and Pandit Ravi Shankar.
Yi Xi Kang, Kwok Ling Yi, and Tricia Lim worked together to study liver scarring.
These three 16-year-old Singaporean girls studied how sex hormones like estrogen and progesterone help prevent and heal liver scarring. They studied rat liver cells in culture, treating them with the hormones to see if they could heal the inflamed cells.
They explain their motivations:
We hope that our contributions to scientific research can be used in real-life applications to improve patient welfare, as we believe each scientist has a duty to work towards the betterment of society.
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General Mills Recasts Yoplait Greek Yogurt -- Again
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Greece faces second sell-off collapse
Greece faces collapse of second key privatisation
Greece faces collapse of second key privatisation Financial Times Greece is struggling to avoid the collapse of a second big privatisation deal, amid threats and pressure from bidders for the state gaming monopoly to change key terms of the deal they agreed last month. The problems with the €700m sale of Opap ... |