The International Air Carrier Association (IACA) has welcomed the recent joint efforts of Eurocypria, Cyprus Airways, the Cyprus Tourist Organisation and the Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism to improve tourist accessibility to Cyprus, but again warned that concrete action is urgently needed by the government to correct the situation and boost tourism. IACA, that
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The government of Cyprus has decided to offer all students enrolled at gymnasiums a grant of EUR 350 per student to buy notebooks, a reduction of the initial proposal for EUR 500 in aid. Education Minister Andreas Demetriou believes that because there are so many children involved, around 8,800, when the proposal is put to
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Businesses need open encouragement from both political and business leaders in order to have the courage to trade across the divide, according to research published by the Cyprus Centre of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). The research, by Mete Hatay, Fiona Mullen and Julia Kalimeri, found that intra-island trade is only a tiny
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Cyprus and other EU countries are under threat of significant penalties as a result of non-compliance with the European Energy Performance Building Directive (EPBD) of 2006 and monitoring the energy efficiency of buildings, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Despite the measures taken by Cyprus to combat energy loss and improve energy
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. Hoteliers rightly want the government to abandon plans to build a luxury hotel and conference centre in Nicosia, arguing that low occupancy rates in the capital will drive the project to failure. The Association of Cyprus Tourist Enterprises, STEK, is against plans to demolish the derelict Philoxenia Hotel and build a new luxury hotel
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British Airways marked its decision to maintain daily direct flights between Gatwick and Paphos throughout the winter with a special event in London. BA representative Alison Nicholls and the airline’s Country Commercial Manager Cyprus, Marianna Trokoudes, emphasised the importance of this strategic decision at a time when the economic crisis is impacting the aviation industry
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PandaLabs has detected an email message claiming to be a special Christmas offer from McDonald’s, but which really spreads the P2PShared.U worm. The email subject is “Mcdonalds wishes you Merry Christmas!” while the message text reads as follows: “McDonald's is proud to present our latest discount menu. Simply print the coupon from this Email and
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The world financial crisis and its effects on European shipping, as well as the serious problem of piracy and armed attacks on shipping were the main topics of discussion at the annual board meeting of the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) in Brussels. Cyprus was represented by the president of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber, Capt.
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Christis M. Christoforou has been elected Managing Partner and CEO of Deloitte Cyprus for another five-year term starting on January 1, 2009. Under the present management, Deloitte has expanded rapidly and currently employs 420 who recorded a turnover of EUR 26 mln. Christoforou said that the tax, audit and consultancy firm recently marked its 50th
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The Foreign Ministers of Cyprus and Malta, Markos Kyprianou and Tonio Borg, have signed an agreement for joint premises of the two countriesâ?? diplomatic missions in Tel Aviv and Ramallah. This is the first time such agreement is signed between Cyprus and Malta. â??We hope that in the future other similar diplomatic missions will follow,
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