Camping sites for tourists
The Deputy Ministry of Tourism talks about upgrading the quality of our tourism product, the local hotels and recreational places, both in terms of the buildings and facilities and the ...
Covid Delta variant threatens Europe’s economic rebound — Economists
The spread of the Covid-19 Delta variant threatens Europe’s nascent economic rebound, economists told the Financial Times on Sunday.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said on ...
Cigarette maker Philip Morris to buy respiratory treatments maker
Tobacco group Philip Morris International agreed on Friday to buy Vectura (VEC.L) for 1.05 billions pounds ($1.44 billion), giving the US firm access to the British drugmaker’s respiratory ailment treatments ...
Musk on trial for selling personal investment to Tesla
Does Elon Musk control Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) or does Tesla control Elon Musk?
More than $2 billion hinges on that question as a trial kicks off on Monday. Shareholders allege ...
EU expected to delay special tax on tech
The European Commission is likely to delay putting forward its plans for a digital levy until the autumn to try to improve the chances of a global corporate tax reform ...
Malta bans visitors not fully vaccinated against Covid-19
Malta will ban all visitors from entering the country as from Wednesday unless they are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, Health Minister Chris Fearne said on Friday.
“We will be the ...
EU can vaccinate 70% of adults — von der Leyen
The European Union has delivered enough coronavirus vaccine doses to member states to reach a target to fully vaccinate at least 70 per cent of adults in the bloc, European Commission ...
G20 finance ministers agree to go ahead with global tax reform
Finance ministers of the world’s 20 largest economies (G20) on Saturday agreed to go ahead with the plan to design a global tax system that would impose a minimum levy ...
How much does it cost to travel in Europe?
As a great many of us here in Cyprus either are already fully vaccinated, or are close to getting both jabs, the possibility of European travel, armed with our EU ...
Netflix expands deal with Bridgerton producer Shonda Rhimes
Netflix on Thursday expanded its deal with “Bridgerton” television producer Shonda Rhimes, adding feature films, gaming and live events to its pact with her company.
Netflix said the deal with ...
Entertainment venues in England to make customers use vaccination passports
Entertainment venues in England will force customers to use so-called vaccination passports from autumn to prove they have had either both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine or a negative test ...
Foreigners in Cyprus more educated than European Union average
Foreign workers in Cyprus tend to be more highly educated than the average number across the European Union, a report has indicated.
According to data from the European Union’s ...
Next steps for Cyprus on minimum corporate tax
The Cyprus government is already at work to find a solution for the country on the OECD minimum corporate tax proposal that has been agreed to by the G7 and ...
More Chinese companies added to US economic blacklist
The Biden administration is set as early as Friday to add more than 10 Chinese companies to its economic blacklist over alleged human rights abuses and high-tech surveillance in Xinjiang, two ...
Cash-strapped Lebanon army sells helicopter rides amid economic crisis
Hit by the collapse of Lebanon’s economy, the army has started selling rides on its helicopters to finance their maintenance, a measure of the depth of the financial troubles ...
‘Influencer’ army wages information warfare on Facebook
In Vietnam, where the state is fighting a fierce online battle against political dissent, social media “influencers” are more likely to be soldiers than celebrities.
Force 47, as the Vietnamese army’...
A Wise move? London listing may open fintech floodgates
Wise’s record breaking direct listing has come as a relief to other tech firms aiming to go public in the coming months, the bankers managing those deals and to ...
Square plans to make hardware wallet for bitcoin
Square Inc (SQ.N) will make a hardware wallet for bitcoin, the payments company confirmed in a tweet on Thursday shortly before US Senator Elizabeth Warren flagged growing risks posed ...
World food prices, already inflated, skyrocket as freight costs climb
Rising costs to ship crops globally are adding to concerns about food inflation that are already at decade-highs and hitting cost-sensitive consumers in import-dependent markets.
With world food prices having ...
Israeli ‘meatless meat’ company plans to disrupt food industry
Israeli cultured meat foodtech company SuperMeat has been piloting a farm-to-fork restaurant that serves a chicken menu based on meat cultivated on-site in a futuristic kitchen.
Ido Savir, CEO and ...
Jet 2 to restart flights to 40 Green- and Amber-list destinations on July 19
Jet2 announced it will restart holidays and flights to all amber list destinations from July 19, the airline said in a statement on Friday.
“It is the news that UK holidaymakers ...
Cyprus consumers are going digital – BOC study
The digital readiness of Cyprus consumers is quite well-developed, a new study shows.
Consumers in the pandemic spent more using cards in supermarkets, pharmacies and on insurance, while they bought ...
Volkswagen and BMW fined $1 bln by EU
The European Commission fined German carmakers Volkswagen and BMW a total of 875 million euros ($1 billion) on Thursday for colluding to curb the use of emissions cleaning technology they had developed.
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UK government will not impose flexible work model on finance, says minister
Financial firms should use their experience in the COVID-19 crisis to consider how flexible working could help create a more diverse workforce but the government will not impose a model, ...