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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.
MELBURNE – “It was a dream come true,” said the president of the Greek Community of Melbourne, Vassilis Papastergiadis, on Friday, welcoming an initiative by Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias to open a Greek National Tourism Office (GNTO) in Australia.
As the minister announced, the bill that the tourism ministry will submit to Parliament in the coming days also provides for the establishment of a tourist office in Melbourne.
“We are very happy with the Greek government’s decision to proceed with the opening of the office, as it is something we have been asking for for eight years. Finally, (Tourism Minister) Kikilias will make it happen,” Papastergiadis said to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, while also referring to the reply given by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a relevant letter. He added that “an online meeting with the minister has been scheduled over the next few days.”
“On our part, as we have said in the past, we have the infrastructure, as we have office space that we grant to the national tourism organisation, in a 15-storey building in the centre of Melbourne where Greek services, schools, etc. are housed. It is important, apart from the approximately 600,000 Greek-Australians who love Greece and travel, to promote our country to the rest of Australia. Let’s not forget that [Australians] are people of considerable financial means and they travel a lot, spending correspondingly large amounts of money, and Greece is a country that has all those advantages needed to attract demanding tourists. It is a country with culture, incredible beauty and offers everything,” Papastergiadis underlined.
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.