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A biometric database enabled authorities to arrest 1,600 immigration offenders at Singapore checkpoints last year, a 167% increase from 2004, officials said Wednesday. The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said the system

A method of compressing huge medical images so they can be transmitted accurately, quickly and inexpensively via the internet has been developed in Singapore. “This is a brand new, paradigm-shifting technology,” The

PWC proposes range of tax amendments to fix it Cyprus is losing ground as an international financial centre to a number of European competitors because it lacks some of the key elements

Foreign institutional investors were holding 16% of the share capital of Bank of Cyprus Group Public Co. Ltd. by the end of 2005 compared to just 3% end of 2004, said Yiannis

Laiki, Marfin to boost complimentary services HSBC completed the transfer of its 21.16% stake held in the capital of Laiki Bank Group to the new buyers on February 6, sealing possibly the

Pilots resist pressure to call off strike Travel agents telling people to rebook with BA The fate of the 385 staff at Cyprus Airways who will be made redundant and the compensation

Banks vie for a piece of their market share The Cooperative Credit Societies, also known by their Greek acronym SPE, are the target of an all-out attack by the island’s commercial banks,