Forty-three years after being written in Greek, the doctoral thesis of the Australian Archbishop, Stylianos, has now been translated and published in English. A presentation of the English version took place at a Greek church in Melbourne, in the presence of officials and many Greek-Australians.
With instructions from the Parliamentary Speaker Dimitris Sioufas, the secretary-general of parliament, Nikos Stefanou, accompanied by other officials, visited Cyprus for meetings with their Cypriot counterparts on September 8 and 9.
A disagreement between the two major parties, governing New Democracy and main opposition PASOK, is dashing hopes that the Diaspora vote will be ratified within 2008. The September 9th disagreement broke out during a meeting at the Greek Foreign Ministry chaired by foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis.
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2nd application for bail by Cypriot-Australian jailed in Thailand
Γράφει ο/η Θεόφιλος Δουμάνης
12.09.08
A second application for bail by Cypriot-Australian journalist, Haris Nikolaidis, is scheduled to be heard today by a Thai court.
The 41-year-old Melbourne journalist has been held now for two weeks,
after his first bail application was rejected. The application is being
filed by his brother, Fotios Nikolaidis and a Melbourne barrister, with
the assistance of local legal counsel.
Nikolaidis was apprehended at Bangkok airport last Sunday, as he was
preparing to depart to Australia. It is believed that he is being
charged in relation to the contents of his book,Verisimilitude?,
which was published three years ago, and which was considered to be
against the regime. It was deemed to be insulting about the Thai
royal family, the countrys political system and its society. His
parents have appealed to Thai authorities, saying they feared for their
son?s life in the prison.