Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Zagreb, February 29 (CP) – PBZ Zagreb Indoors tournament top seed Ivan Ljubicic beat fellow Croat Mario Ancic in the semi-finals of the tournament in two sets 7-6, 6-4.
This was the fifth match between the two, four of which were so far won by Ljubicic.
Saturday sees the finals of the tournament where Ivan Ljubicic will […]
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Zagreb, February 29 (CP) – US president G.W. Bush is to pay an official visit to Croatia in April, claims Croatian Radio Television (HRT).
Bush is to arrive in Croatia prior to the NATO Bucharest summit during which Croatia should be officially invited to join the Alliance.
The government has recently decided that NATO membership will not […]
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Zagreb, February 29 (AP) – Following the Slovene media report that the Croatian municipality of Buje had been selling land that is owned by Slovenia and leased by Slovene Josko Joras, the Buje municipality officials have confirmed the sale saying the sold land south of the Dragonja River was Croatian land.
Three owners were sold 16,000 […]
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Zagreb, February 29 (CP) – A coastal town of Zadar teenager and his 42-year-old drug addict mother have been found guilty of pushing drugs on Thursday.
The unlikely pair have been sentenced by the Zadar county court. The mother has been sentenced to five years in prison, while the son who is 19 years old will […]
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Zagreb, February 29 (CP) – Two Croats Ivan Ljubicic and Mario Ancic have managed to make it into the semi-finals of the PBZ Zagreb Indoors on Thursday.
Top seed Ljubicic beat Russian Teimuraz Gabashvili 6-2, 6-7, 6-3, while Mario Ancic defeated Robin Haas of The Netherlands 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.
Now the two Croatian players are to be […]
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Zagreb, February 29 (CP) — The Slovene Kanal-A television has reported that it had proof that some land plots in the Buje municipality, the ‘disputed territory’ south of the Dragonja river, were sold by the Istrian authorities to new owners, although the land is owned by the Slovene state fund of agricultural land.
The TV station […]
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Zagreb, February 28 (CP) — The Hague Tribunal’s (ICTY) chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz has stated following a meeting with Justice Minister Ana Lovrin in Zagreb that there was no doubt that the good cooperation between Zagreb and the ICTY would continue in the same good manner as before.
The two discussed future cooperation modes, particularly regarding […]
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Zagreb, February 28 (CP) – An Austrian national has died in Thursday morning’s car crash near the town of Zabok on the Zagreb-Macelj road as she was heading in the direction of Zagreb and her mother, a Bosnia-Herzegovina national, suffered serious injuries.
The vehicle the 32-year-old was driving swerved off the road, the car catapulted from […]
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Zagreb, February 28 (CP) — The Croatian Telecommunications (T-HT) has published 2007 business results stating net profit of 2.47 billion kuna, up 11.6 percent from 2006.
Nearly all of the profit is to be paid out to shareholders at 29.56 kuna per share, bringing the dividend to be received by citizens who bought T-HT shares during […]
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Zagreb, February 28 (CP) – The Association of Croatian Travel Agencies has announced that the prices of package tours to Croatia will remain at last year’s levels with a small number of hotels increasing prices by about five percent.
It was stated that by scrapping tourism subsidies and slapping on a 10 percent VAT for accommodation […]
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