A Greek couple has been found to be among the 181 people, who lost their life in the wildfires that continue raging in the Australian state of Victoria.
Due to the catastrophic wildfires in Victoria state, the exhibition, "Athenian Democracy speaks with its epigraphs" will be inaugurated in Australia in the month of March instead of February.
Referring to the draft bill on the expatriate Greek vote, Andreas Loverdos, a senior member of the main opposition Pasok party and its spokesman on foreign policy, has accused the government of exceeding all bounds of responsibility and of efforts to profit through public relations.
The Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center in Chicago inaugurated its newest exhibition, ANAMNISEIS: Highlights of the Permanent Collection.The exhibit which opened on February 5, 2009 in the Hellenic Museum's main gallery translates to memories.
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2009
Parliamentary briefing by ERT
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The interparliamentary committee for Hellenes Abroad was briefed yesterday by the President of ERT, Christos Panagopoulos and ERA-5 Director, Zinovia Vogiatzoglou on the programming of ERT World and ERA-5. The meeting, which focused on the informing of Hellenes Abroad, took place on an initiative of the committee's president and vice-president, misters Tsiartsonis and Niotis, respectively. ERT's president, Christos Panagopoulos presented the members of the committee the complete television and radio programming schedule that are directed at expatriate Greeks abroad. During his speech, Mr. Panagopoulos made special reference to the recent global survey concerning television stations viewed by Greeks abroad, whose findings note that 70% of Greeks abroad prefer ERT's television programming. Mr. Panagopoulos underlined that ERT World created a new program flow in the United States whose program has been adjusted to local time schedules in order to simplify expatriates viewing. In addition, Mr. Panagopoulos briefed the committee of the sort wave programs digitization that is included in the 4th package for funding. From her end, ERA-5 director, Zinovia Vogiatzoglou briefed the committee of that stations programs and submitted a series of proposals for the exploitation of new technologies and adopting new broadcasting techniques that will air the "Voice of Greece" on expatriates automobile radios. A manner of broadcasting ERA's programs is via mobile phones which would include the "Voice of Greece" in an Internet Radio mobile phone package. In Germany today, Nokia's Internet Radio package contains 30 Greek radio stations which can be heard via mobile phone on car radios. A second proposal concerned the upgrading of ERA-5's current internet presence in a special thematic news portal for expatriates (in multilingual form). The meeting concluded with a discussion between the committee's members and the ERT officials for improving programming and broadcast techniques.