Demetrios Christodoulou, a mathematician and physicist at ETH Zurich, won the award of “Asia’s Nobel Prize” that honours Christodoulou’s highly innovative works on nonlinear partial differential equations and their applications to general relativity and topology. The presentation ceremony was held on the 28th of September at the Convention and Exhibition Center of Hong Kong, where [...]
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Behind the Red Curtain: The Making of Sam Voutas’ “Red Light Revolution”
For over 27 days an independent crew discreetly shot a feature film set in a sex shop in the alleyways of Beijing. Photographers captured the crew’s trials and success, the fun and the zaniness, as well as the sheer work that went into making China’s first sex shop comedy. The film’s director is a fellow [...]
Shanghai: Greek Women’s Team into Their First World Final
Favourites Greece beat Italy 14-11 in the World Championship semifinal on Wednesday to reach the final for the first time in the country’s history. The women, coached by Giorgos Morfesis, were on top from the start to the end of the encounter, leaving no breathing space to the Italians thanks to their great scoring rate and [...]
Gianniotis Wins 10K Open Water Race at Worlds
Greek swimmer Spyros Gianniotis dethroned German title-holder Thomas Lurz to win the 10km crown at the Shanghai world championships. Gianniotis, who has repeatedly lost out to Lurz, the unofficial king of open water swimming, finally topped the podium after touching in 1hr 54min 24.7sec in baking conditions at Jinshan City Beach on Wednesday. Lurz, who [...]
“Antigone” Performed in Chinese by Beijing Academy of Drama
Sophocles’ “Antigone” will be performed in the Chinese language by students of the renowned Beijing Academy of Drama, under the direction of noted theatrical director Theodore Terzopoulos. “Antigone” has been translated into Chinese by well-known Hellenist and academic Luo Niansheng, whose body of work includes translations of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Homer, Aesop and Lucian, [...]
Air China Launches Beijing – Athens Flights
Air China announced today that it will launch a new route between Beijing and Athens via Munich on May 15. The route will be serviced by the large-capacity, wide-body Airbus A330. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula, Athens is Greece’s largest city and capital, and is the eighth-largest city in Europe. With [...]
Greek Embassy in Beijing Circulates its Quarterly Cultural Review
The Press & Communication Office of the Greek Embassy in the Chinese capital will circulate the fifth edition of its quarterly cultural review “EpiKoInoNiA” this week, a bilingual publication in English and Chinese. “Epikoinonia” is Greek for “communication”, with the capital letters “K”, “I”, “N” and “A”, ergo “KINA”, meaning China in Greek. This quarter’s [...]
“Cosmopolitan Bride” Magazine Rates Greece Among Most Popular Destinations
According to the magazine Cosmopolitan Bride of Beijing, Greece is among the 15 most popular destinations worldwide. The magazine praises mainly the romanticism that Greece radiates. “It does not matter, if you walk at a small alley around the Acropolis or set sail for an island. Everywhere you can breathe fresh Mediterranean air, hoping that [...]
Air China to begin Greek flights in May
Air China will begin flights from Beijing to Athens in May, Greek officials said Thursday, with the debt-hit eurozone country eager to tap tourism income from the vast Chinese market. “In early May, Air China will begin flights from Beijing to Athens via Munich,” Deputy Foreign Minister Spyros Kouvelis said after a meeting with his [...]
Lotus Photo by Nicole Georgakelou Wins 1st Place, Beijing
A photograph called “Lotus”, submitted by Nicole Georgakelou, the wife of the Greek ambassador to China, won first place in the photographic exhibition “China in My Eyes – A Photo Exhibition of Female Diplomatic Envoys and Wives of Diplomatic Envoys in China”. It was hosted here on March 7th, a day before International Women’s Day. [...]
