The Region of Attica presented its development and social initiatives across all 66 municipalities at the 90th Thessaloniki International Fair, with Regional Governor Nikos Hardalias highlighting a €1.6 billion regional investment program and the need for economic growth to have a measurable impact on local communities.
A new find in the Galatsi Grove is at the center of the investigation into the disappearance of 50-year-old Chinese translator Yu Ting. It is her passport, which, according to information, was found cut into thin strips, while its condition indicated that it had been exposed to the weather and the sun for a long time.
In an unexpected revival of old-fashioned matchmaking traditions, the art of arranging marriages, rebranded today as cosmopolitan “matchmaking”, is back in the spotlight thanks to a Greek-American based in the United States. Nearly 70 years after actress Georgia Vasileiadou immortalised the meddling matchmaker in the 1957 Finos Films comedy “The Aunt from Chicago” (a classic of Greek cinema), Maria Avgitidou has revived the character in her own way. Her business, agapematch.com (named after the Greek word “agape”, meaning love), is a fully modern, organised matchmaking agency based in New York with an exclusive clientele across the United States. “Matchmaker Maria”, as she calls herself, is proud of its track record, and so too are the New York Times, who profiled her in a lengthy feature.