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The Bank of Cyprus board has decided to renew the employment contracts of its Group CEO, Andreas Eliades, and Group Chief General Manager, Yiannis Kypri, for five more years. The new contracts

The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the staff at the National Bank of Greece (Cyprus) starting their own union, SYPETE, an effort challenged since 2007 by the militant Etyk bank

The Cyprus Technological University (TEPAK) and the Harvard University Public Health School have agreed on four master's programmes and new doctorate programmes for the period 2009-2013. The Council of Ministers has approved

The Employers and Industrialists Federation, OEV, expressed it’s “deep disappointment” with last Thursday’s approval in the House of Representatives of a bill to create 1083 new jobs in the civil service, saying

The state owned telecoms giant Cyta reported a 7% increase in revenue last year to EUR 484.32 mln compared to EUR 454 mln in 2007, while net profits climbed 27% YoY to

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

The Norwegian Star, bought from Star Cruises a year ago for EUR 103 mln, will end its charter to the Norwegian Cruise Lines in October and will be refitted in time to

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

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

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