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British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak is stepping up plans for an online sales tax, the Telegraph reported on Sunday. Treasury officials have accelerated work on a new e-commerce tax and ...

It was an email offering a discount on an electric toothbrush that began the sequence of events that ruined Anna’s life. Within minutes of entering her card details, she ...

Aspiring unicorn ventures, meaning startup companies reaching a valuation of $1 billion, took centre stage on the second day of the Reflect Festival in Limassol. The startup event was a Cyprus ...

The government on Friday presented its new strategy for attracting businesses to Cyprus with emphasis, among others, on high technology, shipping, innovation, and research and development, in a bid to ...

Deputy Minister of Shipping Vasilis Demetriades stressed the importance of digital technology for the maritime sector during his speech at the CSN Cyprus Shipping ICT Conference in Limassol on Thursday. “...

From beef bowls in Tokyo to fried chicken in London, consumers are beginning to feel the pinch from the surge in costs washing over the global economy. The rebound in ...

Venus Minerals and Hellenic Copper Mines have agreed on a partnership for the creation of a copper mine in Apliki, a village in the Nicosia district. In an announcement released ...

Britain said on Wednesday that people should buy normally for Christmas and there would be no shortage of gifts after shipping containers carrying toys and electrical goods were diverted from ...

Over the past few years, there have been concerted efforts to grow Cyprus’ technology sector, with Deputy Minister Kyriacos Kokkinos recently announcing that additional incentives will soon come into force. ...

Cyprus’ connection to the sea is fundamental for both the nation and its economy, Deputy Minister of Shipping Vasilis Demetriades said on Tuesday presenting the government’s long-term shipping strategy. “...

Cypriot expat John Christodoulou is currently in the process of becoming the majority shareholder at Omonia Nicosia, according to a report by Cypriot outlet INBusiness News. Reports about Christodoulou’s ...

Oil prices rose 2 per cent on Monday, extending multiweek gains as an energy crisis gripping major economies shows no sign of easing amid a pick up in economic activity and ...

A growing number of El Salvadorans have experimented with bitcoin since the country became the first to adopt it as legal tender last month, with a couple of million dollars ...

A group of 136 countries on Friday set a minimum global tax rate of 15 per cent for big companies and sought to make it harder for them to avoid taxation in ...

The state budget for 2022 was handed over to parliament on Thursday, with the drastic reduction of the deficit being the key takeaway. More details about the budget have emerged since ...

Britain will on Friday take its first step towards trade negotiations with the six-country Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), asking British businesses what they want an agreement to cover. Trade minister ...

Governments should start planning a return to more sustainable budgets with policies that win the trust of investors, after unprecedented fiscal stimulus to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Monetary ...

The 2022 state budget will feature a significant fiscal correction, after two years of high deficits, said finance minister Constantinos Petrides, while handing it to the President of the House of ...

A series of exploratory drilling at Kokkinoyia, a mining area near Mitsero in the Nicosia district, has led to the confirmation of gold deposits in all drill holes, identifying the ...

Travel company TUI Group (TUIGn.DE) said it would raise 1.1 billion euros ($1.27 billion) in equity to help pay down its pandemic debt, as it reported a jump in holiday bookings ...

The finance ministry is trying to secure an extension of the period in which banks can provide businesses and the self-employed with state-guaranteed loans, as it expires at the end ...

AstraZeneca (AZN.L) has requested emergency use authorisation from US regulators for its new treatment to prevent COVID-19 for people who respond poorly to vaccines because of a weakened immune ...

Britain told the European Union on Monday it would trigger safeguard measures in their divorce deal if the bloc failed to agree to changes to smooth trade with Northern Ireland, ...

Investigations into the roles of now-IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and former World Bank president Jim Yong Kim in altering World Bank data to favour China are the latest in ...