• Koza Mostra Agathon Get 6th At Eurovision

  With oddsmakers predicting the runaway winner of the 2013 Eurovision contest long before it finished at this year's event in Malmo, Sweden - with Denmark's Emmelie de Forest winning for a pop ballad called Only Teardrops -the fusion of rebetiko with electronic ska got Greece a strong sixth place among the 26 performers. The catchy Alcohol Is Free, a kind of ode to ouzo and forgetting ...

• Greek Prime Minister seeks to woo Chinese investors

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras invited Chinese enterprises over the weekend at a business forum attracting them to invest in Greece and join the country's long-delayed privatization program, amid cautious optimism about Greek economic prospects.Antonis Samaras noted that 28 projects of his country's privatization program, which cover key areas like airport and port construction, ...

• Salamina Tavern Explosion Injures 13

  An explosion rocked a cafe on the island of Salamina, near Pireaus shortly before 10 a.m. on May 19, injuring 13 people. The tavern was closed and a memorial service was taking place in the Church of Aghios Dimitrios across the street. The explosion caused serious damage to the tavern as well as to the nearby buildings and cars. According to the local authorities, two people were seriously ...

• New York Pontians Remember The Genocide

  NEW YORK - The Pontian Genocide is one of the most painful moments in Hellenic history, yet for most of the past 100 years knowledge of the catastrophe has been locked up in the hearts of its victims and in dark archives, sealed away both by governments motivated by expediency and parents wishing to spare their children. Events such as the commemoration held under the auspices of the Consulate ...

• Golden Dawn Wreath Laying Causes Clash

  Skirmishes erupted between members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party and leftist supporters in the western Greek town of Agrinio when a lawmaker from the extremists, Kostas Barbarousis stepped forward to lay a wreath at a Pontian Genocide memorial during a commemoration ceremony. A number of people had gathered in Ayios Konstantinos to the 94th anniversary of the genocide, including the city ...

• Open Call for Greek Designers

  The Hellenic Industrial Property Organization in cooperation with the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market has organized an exhibition entitled Greek Design=Good Design which aims to show and promote the Greek design. For this purpose the Hellenic Industrial Property Organization invites all interested artists-designers to submit their creations to participate in the exhibition, ...

• Dr. Daskalakis Meningitis Vaccines For Gay Men

  (Danny Ghitis for The New York Times) Demetre Daskalakis, a doctor and gay activist, at Paddles in Chelsea, preparing equipment to vaccinate gay men against a deadly new strain of bacterial meningitis. NEW YORK - At around 4 on a Saturday morning, a time when most of the gay bars in New York have closed and locked their doors, a steady stream of young and middle-aged men, almost all shirtless ...

• Greece to sell Postbank Proton in July stress-test big banks

  ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's bank rescue fund will aim to sell Hellenic Postbank and Proton by mid-July with big banks continuing to absorb small lenders as part of plans to revive the battered sector, the country's foreign lenders said in an inspection ...

• Crisis Not So Bad For Some Greek Moms

  Doting Greek mothers are legendary. They love to keep their children, especially the boys, at home as long as they can, even as the offspring grow into adults. During the country's crushing economic crisis, this one followed her protesting son outside the Parliament to make sure he wouldn't catch cold, and now more adult children are returning home to the nest for free rent, home ...

• Crisis Pushes Greeks Back To Mommy

  Greece’s crushing economic crisis, which has created record unemployment and hardship, is helping out moms who don’t want their adult children straying too far from home. Unable to make it on their own, many of the country’s young, with unemployment for those under 25 at 64 percent, are perfectly content to come back to the parent’s nest and let their mothers care for ...

• SYRIZA New Democracy Clash Over Golden Dawn

  SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras Greece’s main political parties continue to be befuddled on how to deal with the rising influence of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, with Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative party leader Antonis Samaras’ government backing off an anti-racism bill and saying that the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) has ';many ...

• Two cargo ships collide off Greece 10 missing

  ATHENS, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Two cargo ships collided early Monday off southwestern Greece, with 10 crew members missing, the Greek coastguard said. One ship under a Cook Islands flag was seriously damaged and sank, according to the Greece ...

• Brisbane’s inner-Greek shines till last light

  View all 17 photos Tens of thousands of people have enjoyed the weather, fine food, wine and dance at the 2013 Paniyiri at Brisbane’s Musgrave Park this weekend. 
As the last of the autumn sun began to lose its warmth yesterday there was still sizeable crowd in Musgrave Park in front of the Greek Club at South Brisbane. It included those who are part and parcel of Brisbane’s ...

• Pro-drachma party launches urging Greece to leave the euro

  A political party in Greece is calling for the country to leave the euro and go back to using the drachma as its national currency. Plan B held its first general meeting in Athens on Saturday and is headed up by the former leader of the left-wing opposition Syriza party. So far, Plan B is a small party with only around 400 members. Describing the party’s stance on leaving the euro, Plan ...

• Greek Cypriot leader seeks more EU aid

  The cost of bailing out Greek Cypriot Administration has exceeded estimations. Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades asked for more money from Brussels ahead of a key meeting by Eurozone finance ministers.European Union finance ministers adopted a 10 billion Euro bailout package for the Greek Cypriot Administration. According to the EU sources, the Greek Cypriot leader asked the Bloc to ...

• Greece enters sixth year of recession but prospects improving

  (ATHENS) - Data released last week showed Greece entered its sixth straight year of recession, but there is now cautious optimism about the economy's prospects although unemployment is still hitting record highs and consumers are squeezed by pay cuts and tax hikes.On Tuesday, Greece's battered debt ratings received a rare upgrade from Fitch which noted "clear progress" on ...

• Top Chinese political advisor meets Greek PM

  Top Chinese political advisor Yu Zhengsheng on Saturday met with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province.The meeting came ahead of the second annual conference of the World Cultural Forum (Taihu, China), which began in Hangzhou on Saturday.Yu, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative ...

• Greece to buy 142 ships from China

  Greek Shipping Minister Kostis Moussouroulis said in Shanghai Saturday Greek shipowners have recently signed contracts to buy 142 new ships from Chinese shipbuilding ...

• Greece eyes closer economic ties with China

  Greece pledges deepened cooperation with China with agreements in trade, shipping and tourism, said Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in Beijing on ...

• Arts | Long Island Review of Exhibition on Jews in Greece During the Holocaust in Glen Cove

  Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County reflect a vibrant community. But images from the 1940s, of sobbing people on their way to Nazi death camps and of postwar commemorations of the murdered, document a darker ...

• Eurovision Results Denmark Wins Greece Comes 6th

  Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest – with Greece’s Agathon and Koza Mostra finishing 6th. Greece participated in the competition with the song ';Alcohol is Free,'; s a fusion between electronic dance and rebetiko sounds. The 20-year-old Danish singer won the annual competition with a barefoot performance backed by flutes and drums. ...

• Samaras Urges Chinese Invest in Greece

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, talking to the Hellenic-Chinese business forum in Shanghai, called Chinese entrepreneurs to invest in Greece and to increase their business transactions with Greek entrepreneurs. "Those who invested in Greece's failure were disappointed. We are fighting and we will win the battle, there's no other choice for us. Greece writes its own success ...

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