The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra www.cyso.org.cy will pay tribute to the 200th anniversary of the birth of the inventor of the saxophone, Adolphe Sax, with an evening concert series in Larnaca and Nicosia on April 10 and 11. Adolphe Sax was a Belgian instrument maker, a flutist and clarinet player. Besides developing important improvements to the

Moody’s has raised the outlook on the deposit ratings of three local banks – Bank of Cyprus, Hellenic Bank and Russian Commercial Bank RCB – following the change in outlook on the Cyprus Caa3 sovereign rating from ‘stable’ to ‘positive’ last Friday. The rating agency has changed the Bank of Cyprus outlook to ‘positive’ from

Alexander Downer, the UN Secretary General's Special Adviser in Cyprus, whose term ends towards the end of April, has said the process for the solution of the Cyprus problem was in good shape and that there was positive momentum, and pointed out that he would be submitting an end of assignment report to UN Secretary

Greek Minister of the Environment, Energy and Climate Change Yiannis Maniatis will have a series of contacts with Cypriot government officials during the coming days, on the sidelines of his participation in the 3rd Cyprus Energy Symposium, that will take place in Nicosia on Thursday and Friday. The Forum is organized by the Institute of

Members of the Bank of Cyprus Board of Directives traveled to Russia to assess the operations and prospects of Russian Uniastrum bank`s, a Bank of Cyprus subsidiary. Sources from the Cypriot bank told CNA that the visit of BOC Board members visit aim to form a direct view on Uniastrum`s prospects, as Bank of Cyprus

Cyprus Attorney General Costas Clerides said he will walk home after his limo was confiscated by a repossession agent on Wednesday over a land dispute worth EUR 7 mln. The BMW 7-series was locked, loaded onto a recovery truck and towed away by the repo agents armed with a court order to repossess state property

The Cyprus council of ministers has approved a list of decrees that set out the priorities and a timeframe to privatise six of the semi-government organisations, with legislation expected to be in place by the end of the year. The government had previously announced that the Cyprus Ports Authority would be the first to be

Low fares now connect Vilnius with sunny Larnaca Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, announced a new route from Vilnius from June 2014. The new service will be operated on one of the airline’s new Airbus A320 aircraft from 22 June 2014 and will be a direct connection from Lithuania

The target of importing natural gas to Cyprus for energy production in 2016 was the main issue discussed during the first meeting Minister of Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism Yiorgos Lakkotrypis had on Wednesday with the new Board of Directors of Natural Gas Public Company (DEFA). Speaking after the meeting, Lakkotrypis said that they discussed