The Board of Directors of Options Cassoulides (OPT) has cleared the way for the distribution of dividends from the profits of 2005, by proceeding with a unique restructuring of its capital base, which is subject to shareholder approval. For the this purpose, the Board said it has decided to hold an Extraordinary General Meeting, the

Keeping computer viruses at bay is more stressful than divorce, warns a survey, the BBC reported. The research revealed how European technology bosses were coping with the growing number of hi-tech threats. Although many firms had software in place to combat viruses, spam and phishing, it found few adequately protected against all threats. The survey

SEC investigators now attempting to comb through the records of Suphire to establish whether or not the firm has violated any securities laws are proceeding at a snail’s pace according to information secured by the Financial Mirror. The SEC investigators apparently are not receiving the cooperation that they expected from very polite staff employed at

Fresh information secured by the Financial Mirror from highly reliable sources indicates that Suphire had borrowed the shares from the EAC Staff Provident Fund with a guaranteed return pledge, as opposed to undertaking to manage the funds as the EAC is now portraying. The reliable sources told the Financial Mirror that the EAC Staff Provident

According to Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Cyprus had one of the highest deficits in the EU in 2004, based on the data on government deficit and debt for 2004 transmitted by the 25 Member States to the European Commission in recent weeks. Greece was highest with a deficit of 6.1% of