Kuwaiti company wins 50 percent of an oil field in Egypt
Kuwait s World Oil and Environment Company has won 50 percent of Egypt s Kom Ombo oil field exploration and production concession, the official Kuna news agency reported Tuesday.Farouk Al-Yahia,…
Nazif presides over meeting on developing Hurghada airport
CAIRO: Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif stressed the importance of taking swift measures to deal with the increasing number of passengers of various nationalities arriving at Hurghada International Airport, according to…
Human capital is Siemens' aim for Egypt, says CEO
Future of company is in setting up cities, El-Mehdi saysCAIRO: Siemens' approach to Egypt focuses on the country's human capital, the company's President and CEO in Egypt Mohammed El-Mehdi said…
A boy, a girl and the marriage thing
The problems facing a couple planning to tie the knot is not exactly an original topic. The recurrence of problems spanning the gamut from lack of money to the objection…
Israel needs a new approach to the prisoners issue
Last June 25, when Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit was abducted by Palestinians from Israeli territory, Israelis knowledgeable about the history of prisoner exchanges between the two sides remarked that either…
The US is neither feared nor respected anymore
I'm not sure if it's mere serendipity or anything more challenging, but every time I have come to Jordan recently my trip has coincided with the visit of a senior…
Early Al-Qaeda rumblings in the Maghreb?
Same place, but different game? This was the question in the heads of leaders in Morocco and Algeria last week. First, there was the suicide or killing of several Islamists…
The price of inaction in Darfur
Three years ago this April, my predecessor first brought Darfur to the attention of the United Nations Security Council. And now this April, I too have gone before the Security…
Al-Ahram orfi marriage rates may be fabricated
CAIRO: The Ministry of Social Affairs has denied reporting statistics or conducting research on orfi marriages, as Al-Ahram newspaper's April 16 edition had claimed. The article said that the ministry's…