International

Indoor farms are positioning themselves today as one of the solutions to pandemic-induced disruptions to the harvesting, shipping, and sale of food. Previously, investors used to brush off Amin Jadavji’...

Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization and daily volume, hit a record $2,040.62, for a weekly gain of about 12 per cent. It has currently fallen back to about $2004. It is ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (‘CySEC’), the financial regulatory Authority of Cyprus, has launched a dedicated section on its website to serve as a Brexit Information Hub (accessible here), ...

Turkey risks being added to the 12 nations on the EU tax blacklist in May if it does not reform its practice. The latest ruling by the Council of European Ministers ...

Bitcoin touched a market capitalisation of $1 trillion as it hit yet another record high on Friday, countering analyst warnings that it is an “economic side show” and a poor hedge ...

Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp said on Thursday it will go ahead with its controversial privacy policy update but will allow users to read it at “their own pace” and will ...

Tens of millions of workers in developed economies will have to retrain for secure careers in post-Covid labour markets reshaped by the pandemic and the remote working revolution, a report ...

How long will it be before we all need vaccinations to travel? We’re not there yet, but the time is not far off. There have been growing calls for ...

The 200 King Long high-end city buses that arrived in Cyprus from Xiamen on May 27, 2020 are both stylish and safe for use in the pandemic. In what was the biggest export ...

Facebook’s move to block all news content in Australia is an attempt to bully a democracy and will stiffen the resolve of legislators across the world to get tough ...

Revolut, the global financial platform with more than 15 million customers worldwide, on Wednesday announced its opening as a bank in Cyprus. Customers in Cyprus who upgrade to Revolut Bank for ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has added $24 trillion to the global debt mountain over the last year a new study has shown, leaving it at a record $281 trillion and the worldwide debt-to-GDP ...

A recent study conducted by CyStat has shown the digital economy in Cyprus to be growing rapidly. The number of people searching for information about products or services has grown ...

The flow of businesses moving to the Netherlands because of Brexit remained strong in 2020, even though foreign investment fell by a quarter as the coronavirus pandemic hit, the Netherlands Foreign ...

By Dr. Charles Ellinas What has become abundantly clear over the past year is the EU’s determination to drive a fast transition to cleaner energy. Not only it has ...

Pfizer has not yet delivered to the European Union about 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that were due in December, EU officials said, leaving it about one-third short of the supplies ...

British finance minister Rishi Sunak’s annual budget on March 3 is set to have a green tinge, even as the country goes hundreds of billions of pounds into the red ...

Tesla boss Elon Musk’s SpaceX completed an equity funding round of $850 million, CNBC reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the financing. SpaceX raised the funds at $419.99 a share, ...

Most homes are built block by block, or brick by brick. But a demo house in Calverton, New York, was constructed scan by scan – its walls made using a giant ...

We live in times of extreme uncertainty, and that makes life hard for the people who are tasked with forecasting the future. Actuaries, for example, have the task of forecasting ...

Bitcoin soared above $50,000 on Tuesday to an all-time high, adding steam to a rally fuelled by signs that the world’s biggest cryptocurrency is gaining acceptance among mainstream investors and ...

China is looking into curbing the exports of rare earth minerals that are crucial to US defence contractors such as Lockheed Martin Corp for the manufacture of sophisticated weaponry and ...

British finance minister Rishi Sunak might have to raise a hefty extra £60 billion ($83 billion) in taxes to pay for the Covid-19 hit to the public finances, but his March 3 budget ...

The EU’s mammoth post-pandemic recovery fund, which is intended to exclude projects that worsen climate change or harm the environment, could in some circumstances be used for investment in ...