Stelios Award for Cyprus business cooperation

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the serial entrepreneur and founder of easyGroup, will personally fund awards to promote island-wide, bi-communal business cooperation between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriot entrepreneurs, guests were told at an

Salamis buys new cruise liner for Cyprus

Salamis Tours (Holdings) Public Ltd has bought the cruise ship “Van Gogh” for the sum of $7.5 mln, financed from existing cash reserves without resorting to new borrowing. The purchase is the

Saudis spend $5.9 bln in outbound travel

The most popular traditional destinations for Saudi nationals include London and the USA, while there has also been a surge in interest in nearby destinations such as Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Oman, Syria

Middle East private jet market to grow 20%

International Air Charter (IAC), one of the world's largest independent private jet charter brokers, is consolidating its charter jet network in the Middle East as it predicts the regional market to expand

U.S. housing starts and permits jump

New U.S. housing starts and permits jumped in June, propelled by a rise in ground-breaking for single-family homes and suggesting the battered housing sector was beginning to stabilize, a government report showed

GE revenue trails estimates

General Electric Co (GE.N) said profit fell by almost half, on a deeper drop in revenue than Wall Street expected, as the slump that has gripped its finance and media businesses took