Opinion

In a recent interview, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew highlighted what it takes to lead the mammoth digital platform that is changing global culture. Chew also discussed the app’s ...

By Olivia Skordi Black Friday is “celebrated” on November 24 this year. This event started in the United States to mark the Christmas season by promoting extreme price discounts and offers ...

The saga of the Aphrodite gas field continues, although according to the latest information from Energy Minister Giorgos Papanastasiou, there is a possibility it would reach its conclusion, in some ...

It has become rather tiring listening to Akel politicians constantly complaining about the difficult material circumstances of many people and demanding more state spending to support them, while never suggesting ...

Former U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter, who President Jimmy Carter called “an extension of myself” owing to his wife’s prominent role in his administration even as she tirelessly ...

By Dorina Mastora The advent of digital currencies presents us with a new epoch characterised by an innovative breed of money. At the heart of this revolution is the digital ...

By Michael Martina and Greg Torode When Chinese President Xi Jinping met executives for dinner on Wednesday night in San Francisco, he was greeted with not one, but three standing ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides In recent years, advances in machine learning algorithms, combined with an unprecedented increase in the volume of data and the underlying strength of computing ...

And why would East African Asian refugees support dumping other refugees in a part of the world they themselves were forced to leave? A lot can happen in British politics ...

WHO WOULD have thought that instead of the much-trumpeted humanitarian sea corridor, which is still cooking, our Kyproulla would be used for a non-humanitarian air corridor, without our Kyproulla even ...

After someone praised the government’s prompt and decisive response to the sanctions imposed on Cypriot nationals by the UK and US governments last April, in a conversation with a ...

By Charles Ellinas The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in September a review of the energy transition progress on meeting the Paris Agreement goals, referred to as ...

The establishment of a committee has become the answer to every problem faced by the government in Cyprus. Nicos Anastasiades started this practice during his presidency, setting up a committee ...

They have opposing views on Israel’s war with Hamas and conflicting attitudes to Moscow since the invasion of Ukraine, but when Germany and Turkey’s leaders meet in Berlin ...

It came as something of a surprise that there had been no reaction from political parties and the media to President Nikos Christodoulides’ decision not to object to plans of ...

By Lucy Thompson One track stands out on the rereleased edition of Taylor Swift’s iconic album, 1989. In Slut!, Swift addresses her encounters with slut-shaming – behaviour that shames women who ...

After a big build-up, the first Cyprus Confidential reports were released on Tuesday evening and more followed on Wednesday. The reports were based on the so-called Cyprus Confidential files that ...

THE WAY THINGS ARE On a favourite site among the usual gems of advertised literature, I found horror stories especially written for children. Young adults enjoy scary thrills. I lied ...

Turkish Cypriots celebrate the 40th anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) today, the move that set up the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus,’ which has existed ever since ...

Former leader and driving force of the Green Party, Giorgos Perdikis, has decided to come out of retirement to stand in the leadership elections of his party later this month. ...

Rejecting Turkey’s energy proposals is not enough. Cyprus should also be ready with counter-proposals that could contribute to reviving and speeding-up the Cyprus talks By Dr Charles Ellinas and ...

The EAC is still run by a poorly qualified, ever-changing board and puzzling finances By Brian Lait Five whole years have whizzed by since I last wrote a report on ...

I’m sorry that I didn’t get my article on Artificial Intelligence last week during the ‘AI Safety Summit’ at Bletchley Park, the historic Second World War decoding centre ...

By Fahri Zihni I expressed some concerns about the “statement of common understanding” and how it is being managed by Unficyp in relation to the building of a road between ...