January 8 Daily News Briefing

Cyprus Beat

In today’s episode, the Greek state-owned asset management company Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRDAF) was on Tuesday awarded control of the Larnaca port.

Elsewhere, a donkey found to have been shot multiple times by a hunter is in a “critical condition” after being taken in for treatment by the Tashkent nature park in the Kyrenia district village of Vouno, its director Kemal Basat said.

Also, London-based Cypriot Michael Kyriacos Efstratiou is appealing to people on the island to find a stem cell donor after he was diagnosed with leukaemia.

All this and more in today’s Daily News Briefing brought to you by the Cyprus Mail.