. In times of economic crisis, people still want to spend a good moment, with a good bottle of wine and good food. The Financial Mirror recently met two producers from Bordeaux at a wine tasting organised by Spectus in Nicosia who said that despite the world financial crisis, the biggest factor that will help
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. “My Little Plates”, by Roddy Damalis. Full colour hard-back published by Pestle & Mortar Co. Ltd., Limassol, at €37.50. Available at leading bookshops and Ta Piatakia restaurant. Since I first reviewed Roddy Damalis’s Ta Piatakia restaurant in 2003, I have mentioned it at least 33 times in various newspaper and magazine columns. He was
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18 mln New Year wishes The island’s two mobile phone operators, Cytamobile-Vodafone and MTN, carried nearly 36 mln Christmas and New Year wishes, with users clearly shifting from Cyta to MTN. The total number of New Year wishes from Cytamobile-Vodafone users between 8pm on New Year’s eve and 12 noon on Sunday, January 2, reached
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€2 mln donation adds to €50 mln support for health The Bank of Cyprus Group is contributing 2 mln euros towards the cost of building the Blood Malignancies Research Centre (KEMAK) of the Karaiskakion Institute, representing one of the four pillars of the bank’s corporate social responsibility programmes, with donations and funds raised in recent
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The Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency (CIPA) has praised the government’s announcement that online access to Company House data will be available from January 10. Trade Minister Antonis Paschalides said in an earlier announcement that users will have access through the Internet to the Registrar of Companies’ database at http://www.drcor.mcit.gov.cy and that this modernisation will have
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. January is the month usually reserved for reflection, when we look back at the year that was, bemoaning our regrets and celebrating our successes, if any. Then we look forward to the new year, making well-meaning resolutions and hoping for the best in the uncertainty that lies ahead. In the likeness of the Roman
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Russian Commercial Bank (Cyprus), the local subsidiary of the giant VTB Bank in Russia, has launched a promotional 5% interest rate for a fixed year deposit of over 100,000 euros to coincide with the bank’s plans to break into the Cyprus retail sector. Svetlana Kalogera, Nicosia Branch Manager of RCB Cyprus, told the Financial Mirror
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Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, defended the increase in sales tax on Tuesday as the "least damaging" way to tackle a budget deficit in excess of 10% of national output. Business groups have warned that retailers will be hit by the increase, while opponents of the rise have said the poorest will be
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Royal Dutch Shellhad made Cyprus the best competitive offer for a 20-year supply line of liquid natural gas, according to its energy and trade minister Antonis Paschalides. This was the first public admission by a government official that Cyprus was close to concluding a deal with Shell, after the state-run natural gas company (Defa), wrapped
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Credit card transactions in Cyprus rose 3% by value in 2010, with local residents buying 1.9 bln euros' worth of goods on plastic, credit card clearing house JCC said on Friday. JCC, which is a partnership of the island's main commercial banks, said the value of transactions during December alone was 7.0% higher than a
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