September 10 (SeeNews) - Following are some of the main stories carried by the online versions of Montenegrin media on Thursday morning. SeeNews has not verified these reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy:
VIJESTI
- Italy’s A2A has invited small shareholders in Montenegrin power utility EPCG to sell their stakes between September 10 and September 25 at a price of 8.4 euro per share, equal to the price at which it acquired 18.3% of EPCG in a recent privatisation deal. There are still 13 million EPCG shares in the hands of more than 9,900 small stakeholders, the daily said.
- The government spent 85.8 million euro last year to support the banking sector, the government’s Council for Economy, Budget and Finances said. Most of the funds, 44 million euro, were used to bail out the troubled Prva Banka, another 27.5 million euro were spent to repay debt owed by public administration bodies to commercial banks and 14.2 million euro were allocated for the early repayment of debt of railways operator Zeljeznice Crne Gore.
- Tobacco company Duvanski Kombinat Podgorica posted a loss of 8.2 million euro in 2008, its financial statement showed. It produced 171 tonnes of cigarettes last year, 63% less than a year earlier.
RTCG
- Tourism revenue in Montengro for the first eighth months was 430 million euro, nearly flat on the year, the manager of the government's National Tourism Organisation, Sasa Radovic, said. A total of 986,000 tourists visited the country through August, booking 6.385 million overnights. Tourist numbers remained unchanged on the year as overnights dropped 2.0%.
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