* Irish airline has sights on Cyprus Airways license for east Med * Greek scheduled carrier Aegean Airlines and Europe’s leading low-cost operator Ryanair are the only two airlines the government has shortlisted in the race to acquire troubled Cyprus Airways. With the end of the tender process last Friday, the government reportedly received a
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The Four Seasons in Limassol is hosting its traditional Chocolate Week at Colors Café, which this year will last longer than before, from November 14 to 23, due to popular demand. To launch the event, the hotel’s management hosted a gala dinner at its Vivaldi restaurant where the executive chef and his team prepared a
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Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will visit Cyprus later today. Samaras will depart from Cyprus tomorrow night to Cairo to attend the Tripartite High Level meeting between Cyprus – Greece and Egypt on Saturday. The meeting in Cairo is taking place to discuss ways of further boosting cooperation and relations among the three Mediterranean nations,
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Conference focused on reinventing Cyprus and restoring confidence PwC Cyprus was the Gold sponsor of the Economist Conference organised on Tuesday, 4 November in Nicosia. The conference focused on the priorities for Europe, current developments in the euro area and efforts to restore confidence in Cyprus. It also examined investment opportunities that could contribute to
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Daily Report By Jameel Ahmad, Chief Market Analyst at FXTM In a week where the currency markets are perhaps consolidating before both a European Central Bank (ECB) rate decision and US Non-Farm Payroll report, investors would perhaps benefit from looking for opportunities elsewhere. Therefore, attention should be directed towards Gold because a crucial technical move
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Milano Da Bere, the after-party event organised by the Haze Team already in its third season, travels back to Italy of 1920s for its next event at Nicosia’s Patio on Thursday, November 13, with the mysterious and glamorous era of the Mafia, also known as 'La Cosa Nostra'. Tommy guns, feather headbands, hats, glasses and
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Construction work and sales at “The Oval”, the new exclusive commercial building being developed in Limassol by Cybarco Development Limited, are progressing at a very good pace. Michalis Hadjipanayiotou, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, expressed his satisfaction in view of the recent interest: “less than six months since we presented “The Oval” to the public
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. By Oren Laurent President, Banc De Binary These past couple of months have been an intensely fearful time in the US, with four cases of Ebola diagnosed last month, for the first time in the country. The public is on the lookout for symptoms of the highly contagious disease, including vomiting, bleeding and fever,
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Hellenic Bank, one of the four Cyprus systemic banks that were subjected to capital stress tests by European banking authorities, announced a rights issue of 220mln euros that will help it “more than cover” a 105 mln shortfall seen in the exercise. Under the three-scenario tests conducted by the European Central Bank and the European
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. Marcuard's Market update by GaveKal Dragonomics The market’s reaction shows that most investors were taken by surprise by Friday’s announcement from the Bank of Japan. They should not have been. BoJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda has declared time and again that he watches growth numbers closely, and would act on any signs of a deterioration.
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