Ministry employees arrested on bribery charges
CAIRO: The Administrative Monitoring Authority arrested Abdel Hamid Kotb, chairman of the engineering department of the Higher Council of Antiquities along with a number of other employees involved in the…
Ericsson keeps 'low profile' in Mideast amid new cartoon row
STOCKHOLM: Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson said Sunday it was keeping a low profile in the Middle East after Al-Qaeda in Iraq threatened it over a cartoon which appeared in a…
Egypt, UK to diversify trade, investment portfolio
CAIRO: While Egypt and the United Kingdom have always enjoyed strong bilateral trade relations - namely in the oil and gas sector - both sides are working to diversify their…
Living on the fringes
Over 200 people attended Egyptian artist Nader Sadek s exhibit "The Faceless which opened earlier this month at Michael Steinberg Fine Art in New York s Chelsea district. The exhibit…
Rape scene in TV series denounced as tarnishing Egypt's reputation
CAIRO: The rape scene in Egyptian actress Youssra's new Ramadan TV series, A Public Opinion Case, was denounced for tarnishing Egypt s reputation by member of the National Council for…
The Montreal Protocol: A model of global cooperation
Yesterday we commemorated the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Montreal Protocol, a groundbreaking international agreement that curbed and eventually reversed the thinning of the ozone layer, and ushered…
A star is jailed
Joseph Estrada, the disgraced former president of the Philippines, faces the prospect of spending his remaining years in prison after a special court in Manila found him guilty of amassing…
Looking at alternatives
Al-Qaeda is generally viewed as a global threat bent on changing the world order at any cost. This hybrid movement has its distant and various roots in the Muslim Brotherhood…
Job hotline only to raise awareness, says ministry spokesman
CAIRO: Youth looking desperately for jobs found new hope in a series of ads encouraging college graduates to join jobs usually considered to be beneath them. The ads don't just…