Ministry launches checks after Dutch dioxin scare

THE Health Ministry yesterday launched checks into all by-products that might contain Dutch milk, following the discovery of cancer-causing dioxin in animal feed in the Netherlands.

Minister Dina Akkelidou said the ministry had started carrying out checks to establish whether the dioxin had found its way in imported by-products.

House agrees penalty points for mobile phones

THE House yesterday unanimously approved the imposition of two to four penalty points on motorists using their mobile phones while driving.

The decision is part of a concerted effort to curb road deaths and to promote general traffic safety.

Areeba brings international rates down

Mobile phone operator areeba yesterday announced its revised international call rates, bringing them lower than Cytamobile-Vodafone’s rates with differences of nearly four cents per minute for some countries.

Cypriot donkeys find new home in England

TWO Cypriot baby donkeys yesterday joined a herd of other foals in their new home at a donkey sanctuary in England following their rescue in Cyprus, a Paphos animal charity confirmed.

Israeli experts in Cyprus to help battle against the locusts

ISRAELI experts have identified the locust swarms infesting Cyprus as desert locusts, which the government says have particularly large appetites.

Experts from Tel Aviv visited villages near Paphos and Limassol yesterday morning to examine the locusts, which are a pinky-red colour.

Interactive digital TV enters Cyprus homes

THE first digital interactive television service is now available in Cyprus.
MiVision, offered by the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CyTA), transmits digital picture and sound through a telephone line connected to your TV set and offers customers 17 foreign channels.

Greek Press

POLITIS: “Bush to continue” For one more time, and the last, George W. Bush shall be President of the USA for four more years and we shall wait and see what will change in the administration of the USA, the USA itself and the rest of the planet. The daily also comments on how the majority of the world was not happy with Bush’s re-election.