Malaysia's Proton eyes Egypt as springboard to Africa, Middle East
LANGKAWI: Malaysia s national car maker Proton may open assembly facilities in Egypt to help it penetrate Africa and the Middle East, a top company official said Monday.Proton sells models…
Steel maker Interpipe announces results for first half of 2007
CAIRO: Interpipe has recorded 11.8 percent growth in shipment volumes of pipes and wheels in the first six months of 2007 against the same period last year. The growth in…
AUB increases its stake in Ahli United Bank Egypt
CAIRO: Ahli United Bank Bahrain (AUB) has announced that it has received shareholder approval to increase its stake in Ahli United Bank Egypt to up to 100 percent, subject to…
Egypt to participate in India's petroleum, natural gas conference
Egypt's Ministry of Petroleum agreed to participate in the international conference on petroleum and natural gas to be held in India this coming November. Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy…
Government plans measures to prevent another fertilizer shortage
CAIRO: A long-term plan to reform the agriculture sector and solve the prevailing shortage of fertilizers is currently in the works, the government announced on Sunday.Following a ministerial meeting in…
Egypt to expand economic ties with France
CAIRO: Following an official visit to France last week, Egypt has announced it will foster economic ties with the European country through new agreements in a variety of business sectors.…
Humanitarian crises caught on camera
Sudanese refugees fleeing to Chad, in the middle of a sandstorm; a twice-displaced Iranian Kurdish girl hiding her face in her hands and crying as she recounts the kidnapping of…
Special Forces to the rescue?
Londoners don't seem that interested in the war anymore. Hundreds of thousands of anti-war demonstrators marched past Big Ben in February 2003, but now when I mention Iraq to my…
Muslim Literary Voices Call for Redemption
Several Islamic blogs have recently started a discussion over means to combat the "pornographic imagination in Arab literary works through the spread of what has been labeled the Islamic novel.This…
India in Africa
China's increasing influence in Africa has attracted great attention in recent years. But Asia's other rising power, India, is also becoming more active on this front, as its economic links…