AN ABANDONED town in Cyprus, once popular with A-list celebs in the 1970s, may welcome tourists back for the first time in nearly 50 years. The sandy paradise of Varosha, located in Northern …
Cyprus’s dirty secrets
A leak of confidential files reveals how Cyprus became a haven for the world’s elite and poses a threat to EU security.
Cyprus cashes in as haven for elites fearful of home countries
The Cyprus Papers reveal 500 Chinese and more than 350 Arabs bought Cypriot passports, granting them EU access.
Chinese, Saudis among buyers of Cyprus’s ‘golden passports’
Among the almost 2,500 names listed, 500 from China and 350 from the Middle East also paid for a Cypriot passport.
How rich Russians turned Cyprus into ‘Moscow on the Med’
The Cyprus Papers reveal that in just two years, 1,000 wealthy Russians bought ‘golden passports’ from Cyprus.
Exclusive: Cyprus sold passports to ‘politically exposed persons’
Leaked documents show Cyprus passport scheme allowed political figures ‘vulnerable to corruption’ to buy EU citizenship.
Northern Cyprus Ghost Town May Be Opened Soon for Settlement
A ghost town in Cyprus’s Turkish-controlled north will be resettled and thrown open to investment, in an apparent bid to win international recognition of the self-declared Turkish Cypriot state as …
Varosha: Ghost resort on Cyprus ceasefire line to reopen
Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren were among the rich and famous who once flocked to the crystal waters of Varosha, a holiday resort on the eastern coast of Cyprus. But the war of 1974, which split …
Cyprus: Small Island, Big Potential
A small island of scarcely more than a million people, Cyprus has four percent of the world’s global tonnage under its flag and plays a key role as a European Union country that prides itself on …
‘Though small, Cyprus can take advantage of new economic opportunities’
Cyprus is a small country. But today, there are new opportunities that small countries can take advantage of that did not exist in the past, PWC CEO Evgenios Evgeniou said in an interview with the …