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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS- The Hellenic-German Chamber of Commerce and the German embassy in Greece are holding the first Innovation Forum 2019 at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on November 18.
At the forum, Greek and German companies will have the chance to present their success stories in the sectors of energy/mobility, health and ΙΤ/telecommunications, while five workshops from as many German company groups and one Greek company will also present innovative business practices and technologies, all under the forum’s title ‘Ιnnovation as a Driver for Development: A Greek-German Collaboration’.
The forum also aims to highlight aspects of Greek-German cooperation in research and innovation at governmental level, by way of a presentation by Thomas Rachel, the German state secretary to the Federal minister of Education and Research.
Greek Education Minister Niki Kerameus and Deputy Minister of Development and Investments Ioannis Tsakiris will also attend the forum.
A logo will also be shown for the first time, the one which will represent Germany as the honored country at the Thessaloniki International Expo in 2020.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.