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Some 20,000 people attended the Being Greek Festival, a festival full of kefi, held in Sydney on Oxi Day, Oct. 28. it was organized by the municipality of Kogarah, the Greek community in the region and other immigrant organizations,...

Theodoros Karaoglou, Macedonian Minister of Macedonia and Thrace, is going to visit Melbourne to attend celebrations and events in support of Macedonian issues. The Minister will attend the Macedonian Glendi on Nov. 18, which brings together a 30,000 strong crowd...

The Philhellene First Mayor of Munich and SPD's leading candidate for the upcoming Bavarian state election in 2013, Christian Ude, celebrated  his 65th birthday on Oct.26. In an official event held at the Ceremonial Hall of Munich's old Town Hall,...

Despite heavy rain Toronto hosted an Oxi Day Parade on Oct. 28 before an audience that included the Consulate General of Greece in Toronto Dimitris Azemopoulos, and other officials of Toronto's Greek community as well. A thanksgiving was marked at...

Greek-Nigerian rising Pop star Jojo Stavro - formerly known as Joanne –has released a new single record titled Let's Dance, through her her label Heavy Tunez Records. According to “too exclusive” Let’s Dance “is a catchy and infectious Pop/Dance record...

The Greek film L, by director Babis Makridis, won the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival Molodist,  in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on Oct. 28. According to The Hollywood Reporter,the movie was awarded The Golden Scythian Deer, which...

Ektoras Lygizos, the rising theater and cinema director, was awarded in the festival Nouveau Cinema award in Montreal for his film, Boy Eating The Bird’s Food. The film narrates three days in the life of a 23-year-old man living...

“The Holocaust of Martyrs and Heroes should never be forgotten,” Greek Ambassador to the United States Christos Panagopoulos said in a ceremony in Washington, D.C. dedicated to the tragedy of  the Greek Jews during WWII. Panagopoulos underscored that the Nazi...

The history of Nicosia was the main subject of a ceremony which took place in the old Mayor’s House of Vienna. The event was organized by the Cypriot Cultural Centre of Vienna including book and documentary presentation, photograph exhibition...

The most successful electronic music band in history - the English band Depeche Mode - is coming to Greece for the first time, with a concert set for May 20, 2013 on the stage of Terravibe Park. The group...

Greek Americans had the chance to meet officials from the Greek non-profit organization Metavallon at an event organized by the Greek Consulate's Press Office in New York with the Hellenic Chamber of Commerce. The group mainly operates in the...

Located in a forest region, in the area known as Kalafationes, on Corfu, the Silvaland Equestrian and Life Enrichment Center has brought a modern equestrian facility to the island, along with teaching an understanding of the animals, the technique...

Greece's police have yet again been accused of racism and anti-immigrant behavior, this time by the BBC, which reported on alleged torture of anti-fascist detainees inside a police department in the Attica region. The BBC cited doctors reports which it...

The 5th annual London Greek Film Festival drew to a successful end on Oct. 18 at West London’s Westbourne Studios and gained praise from the newspaper Time Out London, which wrote “In the face of adversity, Greek cinema battles...

Within the celebrations commemorating 70 years of friendship and diplomatic relations with Greece, Speaker of the Senate of Canada Noël Kinsella received Greek Ambassador to Canada Eleftherios Aggelopoulos and Greek lawmaker Alexandros Dermentzopoulos, head of the Greek Parliamentary Committee...