International

Covid-19 has had a remarkably small effect on alternative investment, and almost none on luxury goods. These goods have a record of continually appreciating, and that didn’t change during ...

Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok has been given a month to respond to multiple complaints from EU consumer groups that it allegedly violated the bloc’s consumer laws and also ...

“Bank of Cyprus has already covered considerable distance in our ESG journey. We have an ‘A’ rating from MSCI, which is the global benchmark on ESG. The company has also ...

Currently trades from 254 full line stores Targeting 180 in 10 years To open 17 new stores in next two years Openings include six on former Debenhams sites Marks & Spencer plans to have ...

Reuters News postponed the launch of its website paywall following a dispute with financial data provider Refinitiv over whether the move would breach a news supply agreement between the two ...

The Netherlands will ease COVID-19 lockdown measures next week, allowing bars and restaurants to serve indoors and museums to reopen in what Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday called a “...

China will relax rules for foreign investment, increasing its market appeal to global investors and signalling its determination to deepen opening up. The country’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has ...

Gender has been found to not be a significant factor on how wages are determined amongst the educated in Cyprus, a study has revealed. The Structure of Earnings Survey is ...

The group behind the SolarWinds cyber attack identified late last year is now targeting government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-governmental organizations, Microsoft Corp said on Thursday. “This week we ...

Bitcoin slumped on Friday to its lowest this week, taking losses sparked by a growing crackdown in China and environmental concerns to almost 40 per cent so far this month. The ...

Exasperation with Credit Suisse following a string of scandals is prompting Switzerland to rethink a system in which top bankers have been largely untouchable. Credit Suisse’s heavy losses from ...

Larnaca is seventh on a ranking of the ten most-booked travel destinations by UK nationals this year, according to research released on Friday. The Valencia, Spain-based analytics firm Forward Keys ...

California will offer $116.5 million in cash and gift cards to residents who get Covid-19 vaccinations before June 15, the latest – and most lucrative – incentive by US states desperate to persuade laggards ...

Tunisian politicians and officials warn of an economic collapse if the government cannot agree a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan this summer, but political paralysis could scotch that effort. ...

Cyprus Small- to Medium-sized businesses must undergo a transformation in order to survive – they need to jettison past ways of doing business and adopt those that are right for today. ...

Turkey will extract oil from three newly discovered wells in the country’s Diyarbakir and Kirklareli provinces, Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said on Thursday. “We have also found oil ...

India scrapped local trials for “well-established” foreign coronavirus vaccines on Thursday as it tries to accelerate the vaccination rollout to counter the world’s worst surge in infections. India this ...

European Union countries will seek to prolong EU support for cross-border natural gas projects, a stance at odds with the European Commission’s plan to end such funding, according to ...

The family of the founder of British airline EasyJet sold a small stake in the company, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday, reducing the Haji-Ioannou family’s holding to 25.3 per ...

Israel’s Global Knafaim said on Thursday it bought a 49.9 per cent stake in the small Cypriot airline Tus Airways with a $5 million investment. Global Knafaim is a unit of ...

Too many measures have only a short-term effect and major goals are neglected. By Dr. Charles Ellinas Cyprus’ government has put forward an ambitious ‘Recovery and Resilience Plan’ (RRP), with ...

China’s Marco Polo, the largest container ship ever to arrive on the US East Coast, arrived on Thursday. At 16,022 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), the Marco Polo is close to ...

Air France (AIRF.PA) cancelled a Paris-Moscow flight on Wednesday after Russia failed to approve a new route bypassing Belarus, the airline said. The French carrier, part of Air France-KLM, ...

Cryptocurrencies slipped on Thursday, though without falling through recent lows, as traders clung to hopes that a nascent recovery from last week’s plunge can regain its momentum. Bitcoin has ...