Plans to shoot second big-budget film in Cyprus
Dimitri Logothetis, the producer/director who just completed Jiu Jitsu starring Nicholas Cage, the first film shot in Cyprus under the new cash rebate programme is...
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Hollywood star shooting action movie in Limassol
A new movie SOS – Survive or Sacrifice began shooting in Cyprus on Monday that will star Hollywood’s William (Billy) Baldwin among others. An announcement...
Connections made with top entrepreneurs
The Cyprus-Russia business dinner in Moscow, last Monday, identified potential for developing cooperation in innovation, technology and health...
Public service bane of investors
Well over half of foreign investors in Cyprus have a “very negative” or “somewhat negative” view of the public service, and though the tax regime...
Growth and bureaucracy cannot co-exist
By Christodoulos Angastiniotis CORROBORATING Darwin’s statement that it is the most adaptable and not the strongest or the most intelligent species that survive, our country...
Global investors to attend Cyprus Investors Summit 2015 in Limassol
Global institutional investors will attend the Cyprus Investors Summit 2015, which will take place today and tomorrow in the southern coastal town of Limassol. The...
Opportunities exist, president tells Dubai chamber
OPPORTUNITIES for growth exist in the majority of economic sectors of Cyprus, President Nicos Anastasiades told a Business Forum in Dubai yesterday on the last...
Foreign firms keen to invest more in the long term
By Constantinos Psillides FOREIGN investors are willing to stay and probably invest more in the Cypriot market, provided that the state provides proper incentives and...
Red tape hinders growth
THE Association of Large Scale Development Projects said yesterday the results of the recent World Bank ‘Doing Business Report 2014” reaffirmed views and concerns over...
Qatari Investment Authority targets Limassol says CIPA
THE Qatari Investment Authority (QIA) has shown interest into investing in property in the Limassol area, said Christodoulos Angastiniotis, head of the Cyprus Investment Promotion...
Cyprus to conform with tax issues to avoid new Russian black-list
By Stefanos Evripidou CYPRUS IS ready to fully conform “in record time” with all international transparency requirements to avoid losing double taxation agreements that countries...
‘Transparency is best way forward’ (Updated)
By Elias Hazou A NEWLY-FORMED committee addressing the island’s lax compliance with tax information exchange requirements will be holding its first meeting this week, in...
CIPA President warns of dangers from lack of transparency
Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency (CIPA) President Christodoulos Angastinioits has warned that the treaties for the avoidance of double taxation signed by Cyprus and other countries...
Anastasiades to launch investment ‘charm offensive’
PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades said last night he would personally spearhead a campaign to attract foreign investment and said the government was allocating an additional €1.8...
Probes, funding and new website take up cabinet meeting
THE CABINET yesterday decided to appoint investigators to look into whether diplomat Leonidas Pantelides and the justice ministry’s permanent secretary Christos Malikkides committed disciplinary offences...