Armenia’s Eurovision song contest hopeful Eva Rivas will be in Cyprus for a number of promotional performances, including an appearance at the Sipan dance ensemble annual performance at the Strovolos Municipal Theatre on Saturday night. Earlier in the day, the Greek-Armenian former model, invited to Cyprus by the Armenian Representative Vartkes Mahdessian, will plant an
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The Cyprus Hotel Association has issued its summer rates with 132 member hotels publishing reduced prices in a bid to attract local holidaymakers. The whole list is available on the association’s website, www.cyprushotelassociation.org and will also be available from the Cyprus Tourism Organisation’s offices and Bank of Cyprus branches as of mid-April. The list, sponsored
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. BY BRADY COLLINS Association for International Arbitration Since the financial crisis, the instability of several EU member states has caused commercial conflicts to erupt, making companies weary of forming new, viable enterprises. European courts have been ill-equipped to handle this because of the ensuing high litigation costs and overwhelming volume of cases. To help
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. The past year has seen an upsurge in public scepticism about climate change, following the perceived failures of December’s Copenhagen summit and rising concerns about the accuracy of climate science. This is one of several factors that has stalled corporate progress on carbon reduction over the past year, as highlighted in After Copenhagen: Business
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. The police rightly want to find ways to curb unnecessary accidents, just as they want to clamp down on football hooliganism and other violence associated with a frustrated youth in a bewildered society. And there is no doubt that we should help them in any way possible, by volunteering our free time for community
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Property opportunities in Egypt are being driven by factors such as the country’s rapid demographic growth, office space shortage and an expanding middle-class sector, which are expected to be highlighted at the Next Move real estate investment and finance exhibition in Cairo from April 28 to May 1. The real estate sector in the region’s
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Real growth in Saudi Arabia’s construction sector reached 3.9% in 2009 with real estate growing by 1.8% according to the Ministry of Finance, as sustained government expenditure and continued private sector investments drive new real estate and commercial construction projects across the country. The positive growth trajectory has in turn generated a diverse range of
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. Leo Sterling, the UAE’s premium property portfolio manager, has discovered new investment offerings in London, particularly catering to investors from the Middle East, as recent studies have shown that investor sentiment has improved significantly in key European markets such as London. According to Leo Sterling, analysts have predicted prime rents in the City of
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. Last week that ebullient winemaker, Costas Tsiakkas, proposed we accompany him to investigate the new Sushi menu at the Vintage wine bar in old Limassol. I reviewed it, favourably, shortly after it opened in early 2007, but confessed then that in an area with a lot of competition, it might not be easy, adding:
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Rental Solutions & Services (RSS), an international provider of rental power and cooling services, including temporary desalination and mobile water equipment, has opened an office in Cyprus to serve the Mediterranean market. “The Cyprus office will serve as our hub in for the Mediterranean region,” said Milan Balac, Managing Director of Rental Solutions & Services,
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