Manufacturing activity in Greece remained unchanged in November, despite the reduction in new orders and employment, survey data from Markit ...
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Monday, December 1, 2014
Investor watch: National Bank of Greece (ADR) (NYSE:NBG), Carnival Corporation (NYSE:CCL ...
National Bank of Greece (ADR) (NYSE:NBG) was in the news recently after the stock of the company was downgraded at Nomura from buy to neutral ...
Greece looks to break deadlock with troika over austerity
Athens (dpa) - Greece offered to raise hotel taxes and the retirement age Monday in an effort to break a deadlock with its international creditors about ...
Troika's talks with Greece are continuing, says European Commission
There was no indication from the European Commission on Monday as to whether the troika has accepted the proposal sent by Greece on Sunday morning with the aim of unblocking stalled negotiations. “Following recent talks in Paris, there was some convergenc... ...
Greek Professor of Medicine Dimitris Trichopoulos Dies
Academic, professor of medicine and epidemiology at Harvard University and at the Kapodistrian University of Athens Dimitris Trichopoulos died early Monday at the age of 76. Trichopoulos who was treated at Evangelismos Intensive Care Unit died from severe heart attack. His contribution to medical research is considerable invaluable, particularly in cancer. His research on the prevention of diseases with focus on nutrition were among the top news in international media. Trichopoulos was born in Volos, in 1938. He studied Medicine at the University of Athens and specialized in Internal Medicine, Microbiology, Public Health and Epidemiology at the Universities of Athens, London, Harvard, and Oxford. He was Professor and Director of the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, since 1989, and Professor of Cancer Prevention and Director of the Center for Cancer Prevention, Harvard University, since 1992. In Greece he has served as Chairman of the Interuniversity Center, the State Council of Occupational Diseases, the State Population Committee and other Committees; as Rapporteur the State Health Planning Committee; and as member in more than 40 State committees. Dimitris Trichopoulos has authored or co-authored over 650 publications (mainly research papers but also books, monographs, reports, reviews, commentaries, etc). His research work has contributed to the discovery of the role of passive smoking in the causation of lung cancer and chronic obstructive lung disease, the elucidation of the aetiology of hepatocellular carcimona, the quantification of the association between psychological stress and coronary heart disease and the identification of several dietary and other important risk factors in the aetiology of the number of cancers and other diseases. (source: ana-mpa)
Leader PAOK Beats Panthrakikos 3-2
Dimitris Salpingidis scored a goal and assisted on another in PAOK's come-from-behind 3-2 home victory over Panthrakikos in the Greek league. The post Leader PAOK Beats Panthrakikos 3-2 appeared first on The National Herald.
Eurozone Will Talk Greek Aid
Despite Greece's failure to finish hundreds of reforms, Eurozone finance ministers on Dec. 8 will discuss a precautionary credit line. The post Eurozone Will Talk Greek Aid appeared first on The National Herald.