Athens News Agency: News in English, 03-02-06

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] ANA -ATHOC launch e-magazine 'Towards 2004' on Athens Olympics news

[02] Weather Forecast: Rain, snow on Thursday

[03] Foreign Exchange Rates - Thursday

[01] ANA -ATHOC launch e-magazine 'Towards 2004' on Athens Olympics news

The Athens News Agency will on Friday launch an English-language weekly electronic magazine titled ''Towards 2004'' on its website to provide information on preparations for and activities related to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, produced in cooperation with the Athens 2004 organising committee ATHOC.

The e-magazine is part of a systematic effort aimed at informing the public in Greece and abroad on the Athens Olympics inaugurated recently with a Memorandum of Cooperation signed by ATHOC chief Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki and Athens News Agency (ANA) general director Andreas Christodoulides.

Beginning Friday, ANA will make available internationally, in cooperation with the ATHOC press and media department, a weekly English-language informational bulletin to the international public devoted exclusively to the Olympic Games, containing updates on preparations for the Athens Games and other useful information.

The e-magazine, which can be accessed from the Athens News Agency's website, will be free to the public.

Also agreed was the preparation of material for special publications relating more generally to the Olympic Games and the history of Greece, in cooperation with ATHOC.

In tandem with the Memorandum, ANA and ATHOC will also be working closely on a daily basis to provide information on the Athens Olympics through its daily on-line news products and services for its customers and users.

Further, ANA will also undertake the full photographic coverage of the ATHOC activities at home and abroad, as well as the distribution of this photographic material to news agencies, newspapers and magazines.

ANA has placed at ATHOC's disposal its Sports Data Bank and its Photographic Archive, in order to facilitate ATHOC's work.

As expressly stated in the Memorandum, the two sides recognise the "expectations and vision" of the Greeks at home and throughout the world concerning the organisation of the 2004 Games, as well as the "vital importance" of their news coverage.

The Memorandum further noted "ANA's decisive role in undertaking action so that the Greek journalists may live the experience of the 2004 Olympic Games also from within their professional capacity".

[02] Weather Forecast: Rain, snow on Thursday

Rain is forecast in all parts of the country, with storms in the eastern Aegean and Dodecanese islands. Snow will fall on high ground in the north and in low-lying areas of the centre. Winds variable, strong to gale force. In the north, temperatures will range from -4 to 5C; on the rest of the mainland and Ionian from -1C to 11C; and in the islands from 6C to 13C. Temperatures in Athens between 7C and 11C; and in Thessaloniki from 0C to 5C.It may snow on mountains around the capital and in the northern suburbs.

[03] Foreign Exchange Rates - Thursday

Reference buying rates per euro released by the European Central Bank

U.S. dollar 1.099

Pound sterling 0.665

Danish kroner 7.495

Swedish kroner 9.322

Japanese yen 131.3

Swiss franc 1.478

Norwegian kroner 7.624

Cyprus pound 0.584

Canadian dollar 1.665

Australian dollar 1.857

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