October 9, 2010 – 1:27 am
I traveled to a quiet part of the southern coast of Crete for this story on how massive Chinese investment in Greece is being viewed by the Greeks themselves. There have been plans in the works for years for a port on the beach of Kokkinos Pirgos, near the southern Cretan municipality of Timbaki. It [...]
September 26, 2010 – 2:25 pm
So the saga of the Greek economic crisis continues. As everyone who reads the news now knows, Greece is heavily and debt and was on the verge of going bankrupt this spring. To keep Greece from going under, the government drastically cut spending and hiked taxes. Now the country is deep into a recession, and [...]