Greece

As clock ticks down, Greece tries to clean up its act on waste

Recycling only reclaims around 20% of household waste in the country; under EU rules, this percentage must increase to 65% by 2035

In Thailand, B.Grimm is planning to triple its imports of liquefied natural gas next year to around 450,000 tonnes to feed its domestic power plants, CEO Harald Link says.

Thailand’s B.Grimm eyes clean power projects in China and Greece

THAI energy producer B.Grimm Power is considering investing in renewable energy in China and Greece as it pushes ahead with efforts to more than double its generation capacity by 2030.

Greece relies heavily on tourism, the main driver of the country’s economy which is still recovering from a decade-long crisis that wiped out a fourth of its output.

Greece to tax cruise ship arrivals to protect popular islands from overtourism

GREECE plans to impose a 20 euro (S$29) levy on cruise ship visitors to the islands of Santorini and Mykonos during the peak summer season, in a bid to avert overtourism, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitso...

The village of Kallio was submerged in the late 1970s when the Mornos dam was built 200 kilometres west of the capital, the artificial lake fed by the Mornos and Evinos rivers.

Sunken village emerges as Greek drought bites

With lake levels down by 30% in recent months, the ruins of a school and houses have reappeared

Korydallos Prison inmates perform the ancient Greek tragedy 'Antigone' for their fellow inmates, at the jail's yard in Greece. Dressed in cream-coloured costumes, the men, aged between 24 and 63, had been practising for this moment for months.

In a Greek jail, inmates find freedom in theatre

ON a stifling summer evening, the actors took to the stage: a grassy courtyard enclosed by towering prison walls, topped with barbed wire and lit by a floodlight.

Surrounded by piercing azure waters, Delos’ 2,000-year-old buildings offer a microcosm of information on daily life during the Hellenistic and Roman periods.

Ancient Greek sanctuary slowly sinking into the Aegean Sea

A brief boat ride from the thrumming nightclubs of Mykonos lies the Unesco heritage site of Delos, one of the most important sanctuaries of the ancient Greek and Roman world.

The tourism sector is key for the three nations, accounting for almost 25 per cent of Greece’s economy, and 12 per cent in both Portugal and Spain.

Tourism buoys southern Europe's 'Club Med' nations

Derided as “Club Med” nations during the European debt crisis 15 years ago, the economies of Spain, Greece and Portugal are now outperforming their northern peers thanks to a rebound in tourism.

The sale of the HFSF stake in Piraeus Bank will be the latest in a series of similar divestments across Greece’s four biggest lenders, reflecting the progress the banking sector has made since the financial crisis ended.

Greece to sell entire stake in Piraeus Bank in early March, sources say

Greece’s bank bailout fund is likely to sell its entire 27 per cent stake in Piraeus Bank in early March, two sources close to the process said on Thursday (Feb 22), the fourth such sale in the countr...

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis pledges that the government will remain committed to a path of fiscal discipline while pushing ahead with divestments from state-held assets.

Greece to sell first new bond since return to investment grade

Greece is pushing ahead with plans to sell its first new sovereign bond since winning back investment grade status.

Real estate investors are buying and building homes for fans who will pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a weekend of housing for a home game, and the effects are impacting local residents all year long.

How college football is clobbering housing markets across the country

Rashe Malcolm loves her son Wayne and his girlfriend, but she’d also love it if they could move out of the three-bedroom home in Athens that she shares with the couple, both 23, as well as her husband...