ONE ON ONE: ECES director on the new financial order
CAIRO: How will the economic crisis reshape the global economic order? That's been the question to mull over in the past months as the financial fallout sent world markets tumbling.Hanaa…
Government mulls passenger car replacement program
CAIRO: The Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Finance are finalizing plans to implement a passenger car replacement project similar to the taxi replacement program currently underway,…
The coming global energy revolution
PARIS: Humanity's future, to say nothing of its prosperity, will depend on how the world tackles two central energy challenges: securing reliable supplies of affordable energy, and switching to efficient…
Let the diplomatic games begin
In the last six months, the world has watched with interest and at times fascination the rearrangement of practices and strategies of American foreign policy. The new administration has articulated…
Solving the Palestinian refugee problem: Is the ball in Israel's court?
JERUSALEM - Over the decades, Israel has repeatedly asked the Arab countries to recognize it and form peaceful relations. Most of the Arab countries rejected this appeal, with the exception…
IT minister announces bonuses to postal workers
CAIRO: At a Revolution Day celebration in Alexandria on Sunday, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Tarek Kamel announced that postal workers shall receive significant bonuses for their recent performance.…
At least five killed in Gaza tunnel collapse, say medics
GAZA CITY: Four more bodies were pulled out on Monday from a smuggling tunnel between Hamas-run Gaza and Egypt a day after its collapse, raising the death toll to at…
Syrian actor denies he was impeded in Gaza entry
CAIRO: Syrian actor Dureid Laham denied that he had been impeded by Egypt in his attempt to enter Gaza last week."All that was said about Cairo impeding my visit to…
COMMENTARY: Swine flu for grownups
PRINCETON: No one knows how the swine flu (H1N1) pandemic will evolve. Will it keep spreading, or will it fizzle? Will it retreat during the northern hemisphere's summer and return…
H1N1 cases in Egypt reach 200
CAIRO: Fifteen new H1N1 cases have been diagnosed in Egypt, raising the country's total to 200, Egypt's Ministry of Health announced Sunday.According to the ministry's official statement, 10 of the…