Leading ratings agencies, Standard and Poor’s and Fitch, recently upgraded their outlook for Cyprus, based on better-than-expected performance of the economy and strict adhering to the bailout plan of the Troika.

The legendary British newsreel service Pathe has recently uploaded thousands of videos on Youtube, with many films featuring Cyprus - some dating back to the earliest decades of the 20th century.

Bookings from Russia and Ukraine remained at high levels since the beginning of 2014, said the Tourism Minister, expressing his optimism about tourist arrivals for the summer of 2014 and the winter season 2014-2015.

The Cyprus Promotion Agency (CIPA) is encouraged by the prospect of foreign investments in Cyprus, reaffirming its commitment to attract and work with foreign investors.

Cyprus and Israel sign an agreement on the exchange and protection of confidential information with respect to hydrocarbons discovered in their adjacent offshore blocks.

Deutsche Bank officials have told Cyprus they would be interested to lead a financing consortium if the LNG terminal proves to be viable.

The Bank of Cyprus (BoC) board of directors will discuss setting up a separate entity to handle non performing loans, it emerged recently.

The state-owned Natural Gas Public Company (DEFA) has started assessing the bids submitted by interested suppliers of natural gas for the use in power generation.

Standard and Poor’s ratings agency has upgraded the island’s sovereign credit rating predicting a positive economic outlook, while Fitch Ratings revises the outlook on Cyprus’s long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR).

A group of Kuwaiti investors are exploring various potential business ventures in Cyprus while the government further gauged Deutsche Bank’s interest in co-bankrolling a mooted LNG terminal.