Cyprus Business Now: weekly wrap-up
Here are the top business stories in Cyprus from the week starting October 27:
The economic history of Cyprus is a tale of resilience, often defined by its agile recovery from ...
Tales from the Coffeeshop: Bully MP humiliated by woman half his size
WE CAN always rely on the overweight, independent deputy from Limassol, Andreas Themistocleous, who likes to bully women, to provide some entertainment.
It was in fact something of a pleasure ...
Our View: CoLA debacle shows why state should not intervene in labour relations
In Cyprus we have always laboured under the illusion that the State has innate wisdom and we demand it to interfere in all aspects of our life, like a caring ...
New banking rules set criteria for financing transaction risk
The European Banking Authority (EBA) this week published its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) to establish criteria for assessing the materiality of Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) risk exposures stemming ...
European telecoms chiefs urge EU to loosen merger rules
Europe’s biggest telecommunications companies have urged the head of the European Commission to loosen EU merger rules, a move they said would boost much-needed investments in digital infrastructure and ...
PayPal sees slowdown in payments activity in US and Europe
PayPal (PYPL.O) saw a slowdown in payments activity in September that continued into October across both the US and Europe, as consumers became more selective in their purchases, CFO ...
Adobe AI ‘agents’ to execute edits through text chat
Adobe said this week that its video and image editing tools can be controlled by chatting with them, adding that it is working with ChatGPT creator OpenAI to let users ...
Make it rain: is cloud seeding the way forwards?
With expectations for a fourth winter of drought ahead and the island’s dams at very low capacity, the agriculture ministry said this week it is examining using cloud seeding ...
music
Classical Indian music in the heart of Nicosia
The Shoe Factory in downtown Nicosia will host a night of Hindustani classical music presenting the centuries-old tradition of north India that unites contemplation with virtuosity. On November 8, Pharos Arts ...
Stunning Diallo volley earns Man Utd battling point at Forest
A stunning volley from Amad Diallo earned Manchester United a battling 2-2 draw at Nottingham Forest in the Premier League on Saturday.
Looking to continue their revival under Ruben Amorim, ...
Relentless Arsenal beat Burnley to stretch Premier League lead
Arsenal moved seven points clear at the top of the Premier League with a straightforward 2-0 victory over Burnley at Turf Moor as their mastery of set pieces again proved ...
Swiatek swats aside Keys for winning start at WTA Finals
World number two Iga Swiatek began her quest for a second WTA Finals trophy with a 6-1 6-2 win over Australian Open champion Madison Keys in their round robin clash ...
Auger-Aliassime edges Bublik to reach Paris Masters final
Canadian ninth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime boosted his chances of qualifying for the season-ending ATP Finals with a 7-6(3) 6-4 victory over Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik in the semi-finals of the ...
Cheapest cryptocurrency with the strongest roadmap: The next 10x opportunity
In every market cycle, undervalued tokens with real utility tend to become the next 10x success stories. Mutuum Finance (MUTM) now stands in that position. It combines practical revenue generation, ...
History at stake as India and South Africa battle for maiden World Cup triumph
The Women’s Cricket World Cup is set to crown a new champion on Sunday, when hosts India take on South Africa, as both teams look to culminate their month-long, ...
Government working to help Cypriots stuck in Tanzania
A total of 22 people from Cyprus are currently in Tanzania as the foreign ministry continues efforts to bring them home, its spokesman said on Saturday.
Of the 22, a total of 14 ...
Mobile phone use in prison blocked
The government has begun testing a new system to detect and disable illegal mobile phones in the central prisons, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday.
The move marks the ...
Holguin holds bicommunal youth meeting in Jordan
The bicommunal technical committee on youth and the UN secretary-general’s personal envoy for Cyprus Maria Angela Holguin have spent the last two days exploring ideas in Amman, Jordan, the ...
Two dead, 10 injured in shooting on Greek island of Crete
A man and a woman were killed and at least 10 people injured in a shooting in a village on the Greek island of Crete on Saturday, in what a senior ...
Young photographer of old Nicosia
It’s not easy being a street photographer at a time when everybody walks around with a (phone) camera. Not only does it make your subjects – i.e. random people – ...
36,000 expected to head out hunting on Sunday
Around 36,000 hunters are expected to take to the fields of Cyprus on Sunday, the start of the small game hunting season, game and fauna service spokesman Petros Anayiotos said on ...
Tens of thousands protest in Serbia on anniversary of deadly roof collapse
Tens of thousands of protesters poured into Serbia’s second city on Saturday a year after a railway station roof collapse that killed 16 people, unleashing discontent over alleged corruption and ...
Ukraine says its troops still holding out in Pokrovsk as Moscow says pincer closing
Ukraine’s top military commander said on Saturday his troops were still holding out in the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk, which Moscow said its forces were at last enclosing ...
Remand after large anti-poaching operation
A 55-year-old man arrested on Friday evening during a police operation targeting illegal hunting in Cyprus was on Saturday remanded for four days by the Nicosia district court on Saturday.
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