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  • The New Wave of Greek Yogurt

    , people, and I know I'm not the only one out there. You too are likely bordering on addiction yourself, and it's people like us who have grown the Greek yogurt industry to 2 billion dollars a ...

  • Repatriated Pensioners Lose Greek Benefits

    Greece’s Ombudsman said that complaints by repatriated Greeks who receive small pensions from the countries in which they formerly live – resulting in them losing Greek pensions – are justified. The Ombudsman’s office found that many elderly repatriated uninsured or pensioners who receive small pensions from their countries or those who have not completed 20 years of ...

  • Crete Alarmed Over Earthquakes

    The intense seismic activity in the region of Crete in recent days has worried the island’s authorities, who fear a major earthquake with possible material – and other – damage. Crete continues to ';be shaken'; in the aftermath of the earthquakes as another quake struck on June 18, followed by dozens of aftershocks. Since an earthquake which hit 6 on the Richter ...

  • Taste of Paris in Athens

    The Petit Paris d'Athnes 2013 is organized in cooperation with the City of Athens Culture, Sports and Youth Organization (OPANDA), the Athens Traders Association, the Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens and the first departmental community of Athens. It is a festival of artistic expression, focusing on the particular nuances of theater, which will take place in a historic neighborhood ...

  • Greeks Bring Prefab Houses From Bulgaria

    Trucks loaded with households and even with entire prefabricated houses pass every day from the Promachonas border post with Bulgaria heading for Greece as more Greeks prefer them to renovate or set up country houses. The selling prices, which are even 50% lower in comparison to Greece and which remain stable despite the economic crisis, are luring many Greek customers. At the same time, ...


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Movie Review

The Conversation [DVD]

The Conversation [DVD]

As "The Conversation" slowly weaves its absorbing and intricate web, it works its way under your skin, drawing you into its sense of paranoia, until you are sharing the same feelings as the protagonist, who in this case is a man named Harry Caul (Gene Hackman). Caul's profession is surveillance -- watching and recording other people. Even one of Caul's fiercest competitors (Allen Garfield) admits ... ...

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  • Missing Norwegian Woman Shows Up

    There’s been a happy ending to the worrying case of a 26-year-old stewardess from Norway, whose parents lost contact with her while he was on holiday in Greece and after she stopped answering the persistent phone calls. The woman, Monica Barstad, apparently suffered some form of temporary amnesia but came to when she saw a picture of face on a poster stuck on a pole in Syntagma Square in ...

  • Lufthansa’s New Aircraft in Athens

    On June 19 at the Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos, the new aircraft of Lufthansa airlines made its first touch-down in a special ceremony, in the presence of the Minister of Development and Infrastructure Kostis Hatzidakis and of the Minister of Tourism Olga Kefalogianni. The ceremony was also attended by the General Manager of the Athens International Airport and associates ...

  • Video Captures ERT Workers Anguish

    The journalist Yorgos Avgeropoulos has released a video showing the tension and worry among ERT workers when it was suddenly announced on June 11, with five minutes notice that all 2,656 of them were being fired and the state broadcaster shut down. The video, by journalists Yorgos Avgeropoulos, is a forerunner of a documentary which will be released in 2014. "We were shocked by the ...

  • Greece talks with troika on technical pause

    NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Talks between the Greek government and officials from the country's so-called troika of international lenders -- the European Commission, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank -- on Greece's economic program have made "important progress" but will now pause to allow the "completion of technical work," the EC, IMF and ECB ...

  • Greece Is Democracy Ending Where It Started

    Greece's state of democracy is at a crossroads. The country that gave birth to the Western model of democracy 4000 years ago is at the heart of a crisis, which is now affecting one of its main sources of information to the public. As a journalist, I developed over the years a profound interest in media propaganda, information control, as well as regulations of freedom of speech and ...

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