ONE IN four pre-school aged children experience episodes of wheezing, and by the time kids are school-aged, eight to ten per cent will be suffering from lung conditions, it emerged yesterday.
Asthma is the most common medical condition in Cypriot children, and serious respiratory diseases are the cause of over half of neonatal admissions.
AKEL LEADER Andros Kyprianou yesterday accused critics of presidential adviser Toumazos Tselepis of wanting the direct talks for a Cyprus solution to end.
THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved under EC Treaty state aid rules a Cypriot scheme using special government bonds to reinforce stability in financial markets and mitigate the effects of the crisis, it said yesterday.
TO MARK the opening of the new Larnaca airport on November 10, Cyprus Airways (CY) is offering a number of one-way return tickets to Athens for only €125, inclusive of all taxes and surcharges.
Passengers can begin booking the special fare from today on the CY website www.cyprusairways.com
CYPRUS HAS been reported to the EU for non-enforcement of directives relating to national law on zoos.
The European network to end the keeping of wild animals in captivity (ENDCAP), and local animal rights group ARC reported Cyprus on the grounds that none of the approximately ten zoos operating on the island meet requirements set by the EU.
THE INTERNAL bickering continued yesterday between coalition partners AKEL and DIKO over the latest ‘executive’ proposals, prompting DISY to jump in and try break up the shaky marriage.
STATE AND non-government organisations yesterday reiterated their opposition to a law proposal that would in fact encourage illegal bird trapping if passed.
The proposal, submitted to the committee by Famagusta and Larnaca deputies aims in amending the current hunting law to, among other things, enable on-the-spot fines for people caught trapping birds with limesticks.
RECTORS and chairmen of the six universities have announced a drive to turn Cyprus into a regional centre of higher education. It is difficult not to laugh when we hear these regional centre claims, because we have heard them on countless occasions over the years, without anything ever being done.
Letter to HE. Mr. Antonis Paschalides
Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism
Republic of Cyprus
Dear Mr Minister,
THE TWO leaders avoided deadlock over the “hot” property issue yesterday by giving their respective aides some homework to do first, without having to budge on their divergent positions of principle. They also displayed the first tentative signs of a common communications strategy.
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