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 [...]
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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. [...]
U.S. Renews Call for Release of Syrian Bishops
U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Maura Connelly renewed Tuesday her government’s call for the release of the two bishops recently kidnapped by gunmen in Syria, following a meeting with Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East John X. “Connelly condemned in the strongest terms the kidnapping of the patriarch’s brother, Archbishop Metropolitan Paul Yazigi [...]
Azerbaijan, Greece Co-operate On Tourism
Seeing Azerbaijan conducting aggressive ad campaigns to lure tourists, Greece is planning to work together on tourism programs. That came as Greek Foreign Minister Avramopoulos went to Baku. He said in an interview with the Azerbaijan Press Agency that one of Greece’s priorities before it takes over the six-month rotating Presidency of the European Union [...]
Greek PM Samaras to Visit China
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will pay an official visit to China on May 15-19, according to sources. Samaras is likely to be the second European leader of state that will meet with the Chinese government following the French President Francois Hollande’s visit on April 25. The Greek PM intends to attract investments in Greece [...]
Panagiotis Giannakis to Head Coach Chinese National Basketball Team
The Chinese Basketball Federation hired Panagiotis Giannakis as head coach of the National Team. Giannakis will coach the team at FIBA World Champioship scheduled for 2014 in Spain and at Rio 2016. Giannakis is also the head coach of the French basketball team Limoges. Panagiotis Giannakis, a retired Greek professional basketball player, was born January [...]
Confusion Surrounds Fate of Abducted Bishops
The Greek Orthodox Church denied Tuesday circulating reports that the two archbishops abducted in Aleppo, Syria, had been released. The fate of Greek Orthodox Archbishop Paul Yazigi and Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim remained mired in mystery after the two clergymen were abducted and their driver killed in Aleppo Monday night. The news prompted global [...]
Two Kidnapped Syrian Bishops Freed
A church official said two bishops who were abducted by gunmen while traveling in northern Syria have been released. Greek Orthodox Bishop Tony Yazigi says the kidnapped priests, Bishop Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church and Bishop John Ibrahim of the Assyrian Orthodox Church, were released Tuesday and have arrived safely in the city [...]
Greek Woman Joins North Korea Exodus
The one and only – according to all indications – Greek woman who lives in North Korea, is going to temporarily leave the country with her child, after the government’s bombastic war rhetoric has triggered military counteractions by South Korea and the United States. Fragkiska Megaloudi, a writer and researcher, with her four-year-old son, Sebastian, [...]
China Shows Interest In Cyprus Airways
With the country’s economic crisis cutting into Cyprus Airways, the company’s officials and government are reaching out to investors in China, the newspaper Fileleftheros reported. There is reported interest from the Beijing Yi Xiang Da Investment Co Ltd and whose officials met with those from the Cypriot company, which reportedly was satisfactory on both sides. [...]
