Cyprus

After forty successful years of circulation in Istanbul, Diaspora newspaper Echo will now have an edition published in Greece. In a reception held at the General Secretariat of Information and Communication, General Secretary Lefteris Kretsos hosted Diaspora Greeks, journalists and...

Cyprus Shipping Council Vice Philippos Philis, has been re-elected to the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) Board of Directors, as the representative of Cyprus' shipping industry. ICS held its Annual General Meeting in Tokio on June 2-3, attracting a large...

Property sales in the first five months of this year were up by a substantial 25% compared to the same period of 2015, according to data published by the Land Registry in relation to total property sale contracts submitted...

Cyprus’ inflation rate for May 2016 decreased at a rate of -2.1%, according to the Statistical Service of Cyprus. The Consumer Price Index for May 2016 increased by 0.61 units to 98.66 units compared to 98.05 units in April 2016....

The parliamentary election results in Cyprus have shaken the political system to its foundations and things will never be the same again. A Revolution of the Mind has finally begun and citizens dare to stand up and take action against...

Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci met with the new Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Wednesday. After the talks, Akinci said that improved Turkish Cypriot administration would be the best guarantee for a peace accord since the Turkish invasion...

Confusion over the labeling of a child's doll held up an Aegean Airlines flight at Cyprus’ Larnaca airport. A member of the Greek airline's cleaning staff found the boxed up doll from Israel labeled "booba," meaning "doll" in Hebrew, but similar enough...

UN Special Rapporteur for Cultural Rights, Karima Bennoune, stressed that the protection of cultural heritage “is not a luxury item.” Bennoune was addressing an open discussion at the University of Cyprus on Monday entitled ‘using international law to defend the...

Photis Photiou, the Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Issues and Overseas Cypriots had announced that the remains of 15 Greeks of the NORATLAS aircraft have been identified. The bodies of the soldiers had been buried in the UN-controlled buffer zone near the...

About 280 thousand Cypriots dwell in cities, 113 in towns and suburban areas and 124 thousand in the rural areas of the country, accounting for 54%, 22% and 24% respectively, according to a Eurostat data release, on the occasion...