. DR. RAINER ZITELMANN A new generation of investors has come to set the pace on the residential investment market in Germany. The place of investors hailing from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Scandinavia, and defining the scene just years ago, has been taken by German institutional investors. A recent poll by Ernst

. Claims that the world’s economy is recovering is based on fragile evidence, according to the latest Global Economic Conditions Survey by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). It has repeated its warning that world economic leaders should guard against complacency – and not confuse less panic over the crisis with strong evidence that

. By Matthew Stowell In what was once a gambling house — albeit an architecturally significant one — at the edge of Old Limassol, a young couple decided in 2006 to take one of the riskiest gambles you can attempt by opening their own restaurant. Phaedra was Cypriot, from Limassol, while Michel Lepine was a

. BY PETROS MAVROS According to the latest research by Nielsen, the Internet is the favourite means for the Chinese to search for tourist information in their effort to choose their holiday destination.  The Nielsen data suggests that 61% of Chinese who travelled for leisure have searched the basic information for their destination on the

. BY GEORGE MOUSKIDES We all know about barter trade, the exchange of products that our ancestors used and was the base for trade throughout the world when money was not widespread. So, why mention this method? For the simple reason that in times of tight liquidity such as the present, the exchange of properties

. The exclusive club of the 24 mayors of the free municipalities in Cyprus are giving the Sherriff of Nottingham a bad name by taking off with their citizens’ tax moneys and giving nothing in return.  How else can one describe the ludicrous plans to paint neat single and double yellow lines on neighbourhood streets,