CIB completes investment bank plan
ReutersCAIRO: Commercial International Bank (CIB) and businessman Naguib Sawiris have completed details of their alliance in investment banking and brokerage operations, a CIB statement said. Sawiris, along with fellow investors…
Omar Effendi deal postponed due to "differences" over chain's assets
Tolba: Nasr City plot remains main obstacle; no talk of withdrawing offerCAIRO: A 16,000 sq. m. land plot in Nasr City has caused a contract signing delay in Trade Holding…
Diary: Tune In Line
Every once in a while, we TV journalists have to admit that we've made a bad choice of stories. You can research an idea from afar, call local producers to…
Palestine: How Weak is Hamas?
Negotiations for a unity government between Fatah and Hamas are the fruit of international pressure, which has forced Hamas to consider sacrificing some of its formal authority within the Palestinian…
Leprosy in Egypt on the wane again: WHO
Once considered incurable, treatment widely availableThe number of leprosy patients in Egypt has started to fall again, according to the World Health Organization's (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean…
Workers Demand Changes to Election System, Fear Fraud
Workers Protest Election Laws, Demand ChangesCAIRO- Members of Workers for Change (WFC), an affiliate of the Egyptian Movement for Change (Kefaya), demanded judicial oversight in a demonstration at the High…
Rumors about the Metro Cinema theater riots persist
What happened on Oct.24, the first day of Eid Al-Fitr, in downtown Cairo? According to shop owners in the vicinity of Metro Cinema near Talaat Harb Square, up to a…
Israeli official: No decision yet on Gaza operation
Egypt wants to prevent arms smuggling through tunnelsAn Israeli official told The Daily Star Egypt that "no decision has been made regarding Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's statement yesterday that…
Egypt vows to ease restrictions on presidential bids
CAIRO: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak promised Monday to ease restrictions on running for the country s top job. At a meeting of MPs from his ruling National Democratic Party, Mubarak…
