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Tirana Times

Public Sector Salaries go up

TIRANA, Jan.3 – The latest data released on Wednesday from the National Statistics Institute (INSTAT) show that the average monthly salary in the Albanian public sector was 28,950 leks ($308.3/232.4 euro) in
20 years ago
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The main economic events in 2006

TIRANA, Jan. 4 – These are some of the events that characterized Albania’s economic life during 2006.. January: World Bank sets $196 million for Albania in the next four years. February: Rehabilitated
20 years ago
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A love story amongst the Uighurs

None of them arouse the curiosity of the locals in the streets of the village of Babruu (on the outskirts of Tirana), any more. The eight Chinese citizens have shaven off their
20 years ago
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Forsaken Albania

By Artan Lame Tirana,1941. Towards the end of the ‘thirties, Sk쯤er Luarasi, one of the finest architects of this country of the first half of the 20th Century was commissioned to build
20 years ago
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Elections, Fear of Consensus

TIRANA, Dec. 28 – After two days of intensive talks and negotiations at the parliament, Albania’s two main political groupings showed clearly that they fear consensus, that they fear each other. Political
20 years ago
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Berisha agrees to postpone elections

TIRANA, Dec. 26 – Prime Minister Sali Berisha, also leader of the governing Democratic Party, said in an interview to the public television TVSH that he would be ready to postpone the
20 years ago
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