Explosion Near Greek Embassy in Libya

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that on the afternoon of May 18, a low power explosive device went off on the street where the Embassies of Greece, Saudi Arabia and Algeria are located. According to the announcement, the device had been placed opposite the Greek Embassy. No injuries or damage to the building were [...]

Greek Business Activity Grows In China

Greek business activity in China is intense lately, mainly because of the Greek crisis that has forced companies to look to foreign markets for sales. According to data from the Office of Economic and Commercial Affairs of the Greek Embassy in Beijing, the total of productive investments in China from 1978 until the end of [...]

Syraka’s NOUR in Egypt

Internationally distinguished and one of Greece’s most renowned jewellery designers, Elena Syraka, will exhibit her collection of high aesthetic NOUR at El Hanager Arts Center in the Opera House Yard in Egypt’s capital, Cairo. The collection was presented for the first time in the Benaki Museum collection of Islamic art on 23 February, 2012. This [...]

Zimbabwe’s Kefalos Wins Dairy Awards

The Zimbabwean company, Kefalos Dairy products, won three major awards in the recent 2013 South African Dairy Championships. According to “all africa“, the company has produced a variety of high quality dairy products for 20 years now and is well known for its creams, yoghurts and cheeses. Kefalos won First Prize in the Plain Full [...]

Radical Islamists Behind Bishops’ Kidnapping?

Two Orthodox Archbishops, Paul Yazigi, and Yohanna Ibrahim, Head of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Aleppo, who were kidnapped by rebels on April 22, are still being held in a village northwest of the city, it’s been reported. Since their captivity, there has been almost no news about them even as efforts have beem made [...]

Tokyo Honors Nikos Kazantzakis

The Greece-Japan Center in cooperation with the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis and the Japan-Greece Society have organized an event for May 14 in Tokyo to celebrate the 25 years of activity of the International Society to honor, preserve and present the work and life of Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis to the world. [...]

Abducted Orthodox Archbishops OK In Syria

According to recent information, two Greek Orthodox Archbishops kidnapped in Syria, are both in good health and still in the custody of rebels. Aleppo’s Greek Orthodox Archbishop Paul Yazigi and Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim were kidnapped on April 22, while they were passing from the Turkish border on their way to Aleppo. The Lebanese [...]