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Fighting erupted in eastern Myanmar near the Thai border early on Tuesday as ethnic minority Karen insurgents attacked an army outpost in some of the most intense clashes since a ...

Household electricity prices in Cyprus fell by nearly 25 per cent in the second half of 2020 compared to the year before, the second largest decrease in the EU. According to Eurostat, ...

Britain imposed sanctions late on Monday on 14 Russians, on the Gupta family of South African businessmen and on officials accused of aiding Central American drugs cartels, in the first use ...

As part of their long-standing collaboration, PwC and Junior Achievement are launching this year, on a pilot basis, a new programme entitled Our Community. This interactive programme, addressed to primary ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged U.S. President Joe Biden to swiftly reverse his declaration that 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide, an action he said was ...

Police booked 100 individuals and one business for breaches of Covid-19 measures from 6am on Monday until 6am on Tuesday while carrying out 7,667 checks. A beauty salon in Paphos which was ...

Following the postponement of the 2020 sCYence Fair due to the exceptional circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Cyprus Institute organised on April 19 and 20, 2021, the innovative 2021 Virtual sCYence Fair. The event ...

The European Union’s first female chief executive vowed on Monday to fight for women’s rights after she was denied a chair during a meeting in Ankara with Turkey’...

Tesla’s (TSLA.O) quarterly report on Monday hit targets qualifying Chief Executive Elon Musk for two options payouts worth a combined $11 billion. The electric car maker beat Wall Street’...

While politicians hail digital health passes as the solution to aviation’s Covid-19 crisis, airline bosses are still having sleepless nights about clogged up airports as they worry how to ...

Lebanese Minister of Public Works and Transport Michel Najjar early this month signed an amendment of a decree that would fix Lebanon’s maritime borders – unfortunately the proposed demarcations are ...

It has been roughly six months since Sony and Microsoft released their much-awaited next-generation consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, but the battle for console supremacy is only starting ...

A group of parents have filed a joint lawsuit against the state challenging the requirement on school children to undergo testing for the coronavirus and having to wear a face ...

The slapdash way in which the government has dealt with the latest lockdown that came into force on Monday has undermined the whole exercise including its arguments for justifying the ...

Kelechi Iheanacho’s stunning late goal earned Leicester City a crucial 2-1 home victory over Crystal Palace which tightened their grip on third place in the Premier League on Monday. ...

The United States will start to share up to 60 million doses of AstraZeneca Plc’s coronavirus vaccine with other countries as soon as the next few weeks, the White House ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar has criticised US President Joe Biden’s recognition of the genocide of Armenians in 1915. Tatar took to Twitter to “condemn the US President’s unfortunate ...

The Indian government asked social media platform Twitter to take down dozens of tweets, including some by local lawmakers, that were critical of India’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak, ...

Three deaths from coronavirus and 611 new cases were announced on Monday night, with a positivity rate of 1.21 per cent. Three hundred people are in hospital, 78 of whom are in serious ...

Deepening the European Union’s relationship with Turkey will be difficult as long as authoritarianism continues under Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, the head of the European Council said on Monday. “...

Vassos Lyssarides, former Edek leader and founding member of the party, passed away on Monday afternoon, aged 100. Lyssarides had been a central figure in Cyprus politics since the island’s ...

The day before a third Covid lockdown was imposed (for two weeks) in Cyprus, a few hundred people protested outside Police Headquarters in Nicosia.

By Dr. Olga Kandinskaia Practical learning has become so much more important in the post-Covid business management education. By using corporate live case projects at the Cyprus International Institute of ...

By Ebrahim Harris After more than a decade of experimenting, a trio of Malaysian farmers say they have found the right concoction of nutrients and treatments to successfully grow Japanese ...