"Thessaloniki tomorrow fills Greece with light," Thessaloniki Prefect Panayotis Psomiadis said yesterday. "We are honouring expatriate Greek women represented by seven distinguished women. Through them, we honour all expatriate Greeks

Greek-Australian Nikos Balagiannis - one of the richest residents of Australia, according to the annual list published in the BRW financial journal - has paid for airline tickets for over 100 of his low-income compatriots, so they may visit Greece for the first and only time in their lives, after many "tough" decades working in Australia.

A Melbourne-based Greek-Australian teacher, Lambis Englezos - the finder of a World War I burial ground - was awarded the "Pride of Australia" medal for mateship.

Deputy Foreign Minister, Miltiades Varvistiotis briefed representatives of the nine largest Associations of Greek minorities in Albania on the results of his recent trip and contacts with Albanian official in Tirana during an event that was organized in a downtown Athens hotel.

Council for Hellenes Abroad (SAE) secretary, Dr. Olga Sarantopoulou, attended the works of the 7th Conference of the Federation of Hellenic Communities and Brotherhoods in Rimini, Italy on March 14-15.