Security critical modern financial systems
Mediterranean Smart Cards Company provides important checks, balances to Egypt's financial infrastructureCAIRO: Like many developing countries, Egypt is on its way to fully comprehending that modern financial systems - with…
Technology exports hit $500 mln
CAIRO: Technology and communications' services exports recorded approximately $500 million over the first ten months of 2006, according to Gamal Mohamed Ali, deputy chairman of the Information Technology Industry Development…
Egypt and Arab nations will not sever ties with Iraqi government
Cleric's calls for withdrawal of support will go unheeded, expert saysCAIRO: Calls by Iraqi Sunni leader Sheikh Harith Al-Dhari for Egypt and the international community to end support for the…
Fahmy apologizes for insulting remark
Press unified in anti-veil stance and support for HosniCAIRO: In response to the attacks directed at Culture Minister Farouk Hosni two week ago after he announced his controversial opinion on…
EU commissioner says progress being made toward free trade zone
Mandelson on Egypt reforms: Carefully and sensitively, we need to let the hand brake offCAIRO: European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson says the Euro-Egyptian Association Agreement, paving the way…
Festival press conference comes up empty
Press fails to come up with pertinent questions for panelCAIRO: Just hours before the 30th Cairo International Film Festival kicks off, festival President Ezzat Abo Ouf held a joint press…
German system flourishes in Egypt's trade schools
Providing graduates with solid education and guaranteed work opportunitiesEL-GOUNA: A typical school week for a student at the El-Gouna Hotel School may begin with some fractions and literature and conclude…
Pedophiliac twin brothers arrested in Cairo
CAIRO: Twin brothers, one a social worker at an educational institute and another employee at a media company, both 45, have been detained for having allegedly raped a six-year-old boy…
A fruit enjoyed by children on its way to extinction
Egypt seems to have forgotten the good points of the sycamoreThe trees lining the streets around the Maadi Club once beckoned children to savor their fruit - the sycamore fig,…
