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Business: CleanEquity Monaco goes from strength to strength as confidence rises in clean technologies

Edge of a revolution

Stelios, founder of Easyjet, on the left presenting a giant cheque to winner of a CleanEquity award

The ambition is for all emerging companies to have sufficient funds to develop and commercialise green technologies. So for the 30-plus innovators at CleanEquity Monaco it was a tense two days as they presented their projects to industry-specific financial and strategic investors, policy makers and legislators from around the world last week.Read more …

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Column: Girl about town: RT's English journalist, Hannah Marshall, charts the highs - and lows - of Riviera living ($)

A petite poupette in Paris

Hannah sitting in front of her laptop

“That iz it!” the Belgian artist spluttered. “I am no longer going to waste my time on the provincial and the small-minded.” I held the receiver away from my ear a little. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciated his point: he’d overcome the snow and the second-class train travel to appear at his vernissage at MAMAC the week before, only to be rudely set upon by an unruly youth who had taken offence at his tattooed pigs. Read more …

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Monaco: Controversy continues to dog 170-metre Monesgasque tower

Odeon Towers: start, stop and start again

Work taking place on the Odeon towers in the Beausoleil commune, which was halted in recent days has started again. The French town’s mayor, Gerard Spinelli defiantly ordered a stop to the work in an effort to demonstrate his opposition to the towers. However, the mayor has agreed to temporarily back down on the advice of experts over safety concerns on the site. Read more …

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Provence & Côte d'Azur: Strong winds warning and possibility of snow

Weather alert again today in Alpes-Maritimes

Following yesterday’s alert the Prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes has again issued a weather alert for today.Read more …

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Art & culture: Opening of father's exhibition brings screen legend to town

Nice hosts De Niro

Legendary actor and director Robert De Niro is arriving in Nice today for the opening of a new exhibition celebrating the work of his father. ‘After seeing Matisse: Robert De Niro, Sr. – paintings and drawings’ is showing at the Matisse Museum in Cimiez from now until the end of May.Read more …

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Provence & Côte d'Azur: High winds warning today

Weather alert issued in Alpes-Maritimes

big waves striking the coast

The Prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes has issued a weather warning for today. Residents should take caution close to the coast. Access to some coastal paths is prohibited due to strong winds and the high waves they cause.Read more …

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Arts & Culture: MIDEM’s Outstanding Young Artist Award winner in concert

Adam Walker in Monaco debut

The music charity ARS Antonina, which supports young talent, is organising the Monaco debut of British flautist Adam Walker on Tuesday 9th March at 8.30pm in the Théâtre des Variétés. Read more …

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Monaco: Beausoleil mayor halts tower work upon release from prison ($)

Odeon towers in Monaco start then stop

A rendering of how the Odeon tower in Monaco will look like

The beginning of this month in Monaco saw the first foundations laid for the controversial towers, the Odeon. After long months of tortuous negotiations and discord, work on the 370 million Euro contract had finally begun. It seemed that we would hear no more until its inauguration in the summer of 2014. Now hitting the headline again it seems that its future is still on rocky ground.Read more …

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Provence Côte d'Azur: Nice Interior and exterior décor fair begins this weekend

Feel Nice at the fair in Nice

The Foire de Nice, the annual interior and exterior décor fair, begins tomorrow in Nice. It’s the 66th edition of the event, and has steadily grown over the years to include a vast array of exhibits outdoors in front of the Palais – many of which are garden furniture, sculptures and outdoor equipment. The theme this year is “Feel Nice”.Read more …

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Provence & Cote d'Azur: Two dead as "tsunami" hits cruise ship

Killer waves strike cruisers on the Med

A cruise ship with 2,000 people on board has been hit by freak giant waves close to the port of Marseille. The tsunami-like swell, measuring 26 feet (8 metres) high, swept two men – an Italian and a German – to their death and seriously injured at least six others.Read more …

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easyJet's Roman holiday

An easyJet plane flying across a blue sky

Italy may only be an hour’s drive from Nice, however it is a considerably longer and more laborious road trip to get from the capital of the French Riviera to the Italian’s celebrated capital, Rome. Fortunately, easyJet are just about to make the journey a whole lot more straightforward, with the introduction of its newest route between Nice Côte d’Azur and Rome Fiumicino international airport.Read more …

Event News

Diary of a Monte Carlo rally driver

Once a year classic cars roll into Monaco for the Monte-Carlo Historic rally but what’s it like to take part? No one can answer that question better than Anna-Louise Felstead. Having come painfully close to crossing the finishing line in 2009, the artist from Cornwall, England, was revved up and raring to get going this year. Read more …

Festival fun in Nice starts today

While most of our northern neighbours experience snow blizzards at this time of year while the Riviera is bursting with life and colour under an azure blue sky. However, this February's weather is colder and harsher than usual, with heavy snowfalls yesterday across the Riviera turning the ambiance of the pre-spring festivals upside down. Festival organisers are hoping for a let up in the weather so parades can go ahead. Read more …

Celebrate Saint Patrick's Day with the PACA Irish

PACAIRISH are proud to be associated with The Roche Marina Hotel to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, in the presence of Stephen Roche, Ireland's most famous cyclist and owner of the hotel. The evening will take place on the 19th of March at 7pm. The evening includes traditional music by local group Fairy MuseRead more …

Local Top Stories

TGV arriving at Paris station

Nice-Paris TGV fast train accident ($)

This morning’s TGV n°6172 and the TGV n°2902, which left Nice is currently stopped between Aix-en-Provence and Avignon due to a person being hit at 9.20am. Read more …

photomontage of the Odeon skyscraper

Foundations of Monaco skyscraper are laid ($)

After long months of tortuous negotiations and discord, the 370 million euro contract with Vinci Construction has finally left the ground. Opponents of the project – including some residents of neighbouring Beausoleil who will be overshadowed by it – brought their protest all the way to the President Nicolas Sarkozy but to no avail.Read more …

Hauschildt at a dinner function with Romana Labunski on the right and Pamela Schutzmann on the left

To catch a swindler and a swine ($)

The Riviera Times have joined the hunt for a dangerous criminal, convicted of fraud in the UK and wanted under a European arrest warrant. Since 2008, Mogens Hauschildt, 68, has been on the run with one million pounds belonging to 87-year-old widow, Pamela Schutzmann. Read more …