This morning I got up listening to the news and to my utter disgust and dismay I heard the Prime Minister of the country speaking against one of the MPs using vile and truly offending words.
I don’t care to comment any further, if you’re interested in the scandal, watch the video.
BERISHA vs Balla

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This morning I took my parents and my little four year old nice to the airport on their way to a vacation time abroad. My little nice was so exited about it all.
The night before, while it was still about 11 PM, she kept coming to my room to ask me how much longer it [...]

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These last couple of weeks my close friend and business partner has been traveling around the Balkans for a project he is working on. Yesterday, while chatting he conveyed to me some of the difficulties of traveling back to Albania, which he writes more about in his personal blog over at Dairy of Tirana.
May be [...]

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In the last couple of weeks I’ve had to travel to two different countries for work related activities. I love traveling, but at the same time it does take some preparation each time I do, which is fine but what continues to be a major issue is the visa process.
More recently I traveled to Croatia [...]

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The Albanian public and the mass media were recently shaken by the sudden and quite sad death of the president of the largest media in the country, Dritan Hoxha (Top Media). Most of you probably know already about this event and may have been able to follow it through the different media sources. However, with [...]

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Corruption continues to be a major issue facing all levels of the Albanian society. A recent corruption survey report by the Institute for Development Research & Alternatives (IDRA) reported a 13% increase in the corruption index perception for 2008, compared to last year figures by the same institute.
According to the U.S.A. Ambassador in Albania, John [...]

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This last Sunday, I had the pleasure of having a friend of mine over at my house for lunch. May be there is nothing special about this event as I have people come over to my house rather often, but this occasion was rather unique, and there are several reasons why.
First, it was unique because [...]

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