Ten companies control 61 pct of Egyptian manufacturing exports
CAIRO: Ten large companies accounted for 61 percent of total Egyptian manufacturing exports in 2006 with a total value of LE 5.1 billion out of LE 8.34 billion, representing the…
NTRA threatens legal action against Mobinil over Edge use
CAIRO: National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) Chairman Amr Badawy said Sunday the authority is considering suing the country s largest mobile operator Mobinil if the company resumes offering Enhanced Data…
Egyptian named to senior UN post
Associated PresUNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed officials from Egypt, the United States, China, and Japan to top UN posts Friday and accepted the resignation of 17 senior staff…
Competitiveness report urges government to improve market efficiency
CAIRO: Egyptian Competitiveness Report has ranked Egypt at 71 among 117 countries on its Business Competitiveness Index (BCI), pointing to a number of obstacles that prevent the country from achieving…
The domino art effect has spread: could it now be the Arab's turn?
Egyptian art fetches record auction price at Christie s For a while it looked as if the Middle East had found a place on the international art map as a…
Demise of Valentine's Day?
The greeting card industry has the world by the short and curlies with the genius of February 14th. Products packaged directly for romantic love, with the killer guilt add-on, if…
'Green militancy' hinders better ways to do the planet good
You would have had to be stuck in deepest Mongolia to avoid hearing that the United Nations climate panel, the IPCC, issued a new report last week. Perhaps even in…
How not to lose your soul in American journalism
Last month, a group gathered in New York City to celebrate the 80th birthday of Charles Peters, one of the true revolutionaries in modern journalism. For more than 30 years,…
Where to, after the Mecca agreement?
The most significant thing about the national unity government agreement signed Thursday by Hamas and Fatah in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, under Saudi auspices was that it was signed in Mecca…
Arab women entrepreneurs and SMEs: challenges and realities
Towards the end of 2006, the Euro-Mediterranean Ministers in their meeting at Turkey, stressed the need for strengthening the role of women in their societies. A framework and action plan…