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Greece ranks last in business environment and low in talent capitalization among OECD member states, according to a latest OECD report.

The Athens Mini Maker Faire exhibition was hosted for the second consecutive year at the Peristeri Exhibition Center on May 6 and 7 and Greek Reporter was there to capture the event live. While at the Athens Mini Maker Faire...

A 16-year-old Greek boy made two hosts of a talent show cry with his rendering of a Stelios Kazantzidis song on Thursday. Alexandros Sagkouris came on the stage of the X Factor talent show with his guitar and introduced himself...

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival will be running its 57th edition from November 3-11. The line up of talent to be showcased at the flagship Olympian cinema will start off with the hit film Paterson which recently premiered at Cannes...

Stavros Messinis, founder of The Cube and Kostas Fontalis, founder of Xeirotexnika teamed up to combine the technology and DIY communities for Athens' first ever Mini Maker Faire which took place October 1-2. Already hailed as an invaluable co-working incubator hub...

More than 200,000 young, talented Greeks with university degrees and skills have left the country during the economic crisis of the past five years, according to a feature in The Guardian. The British newspaper calls them Generation G and talks...

The 60th Epidaurus Festival kicked off on Saturday with an aim to bring a breath of fresh air and optimism to Greek and foreign audiences. The festival, dedicated to ancient Greek drama, opened with Euripides' Helen directed by 26-year-old Greek...

Sikinos, a small island in the Cyclades, has every reason to be proud of its two priests. Father Spyridon Vourlakos, served at the age of 16 at the Hellenic Navy and worked as a cook on ships to help...

The first episode of Greece's Got Talent discovered an amazing 14 year-old tenor, Yiorgos Ioannou. The Cypriot teenager traveled to Athens to perform at the popular talent show and it was definitely worth the trip as he amazed the...

The Gospels take center stage on Holy Tuesday in the Orthodox church, as Greeks move closer to the end of Lent and Easter Sunday.

Rigas Feraios was a Greek revolutionary who fought in the mountains and worked as a writer, merchant, and revolutionary agitator in the wide Balkan Diaspora forming in the states neighboring the Ottoman Empire. He had done it all. Like so...

Influential Greek women have played a crucial role in Greece's history since antiquity -- read on to learn about ten women who shaped Greece today.

Nikos Xylouris, nicknamed Psaronikos, who passed away on Feb. 8, 1980, is a symbol of Crete. He was one of its greatest singers whose talent made him internationally known. Xylouris was born in Anogeia, a rugged mountain region in the...

The Byzantines, also known as the Eastern Romans, were a literate and articulate people, with a far greater appreciation for education than most of their contemporaries. The contribution of Byzantium to higher learning and culture has been broadly overlooked by...

Many outside of Greece believe that Mount Olympus—like Atlantis—is a myth that exists only in Greek mythology, Greek journalist and director Athina Krikeli said recently. Krikeli, who has lived in the United States for the past twenty-five years and has...