Business Monitor International report reaffirms government forecast for 2007
Report: low potential for political reform positive sign for economyCAIRO: A Business Monitor International (BMI) report released Thursday ranked the Egyptian economy first in the Middle East region on growth…
$ 1.9 million Japanese grant to support Unicef's maternal and child health program in Upper Egypt
CAIRO: Health services for expectant mothers and their babies in four of Upper Egypt's governorates are to receive a major boost thanks to a grant of nearly two million dollars…
Vodafone acquires 3G license for LE 3.4 billion
Operator to start services "one day after EtisalatCAIRO: The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) and Vodafone Egypt (VFE) signed a contract yesterday for the latter's purchase of a…
Bright lights, big city, big headache
Cairo is hard work. Given the smog, the traffic and the crushing weight of bureaucracy which seeps into all aspects of life, just going about your daily routine feels like…
Bush's Baghdad plan: What do the numbers mean?
President George W. Bush has presented a new strategy for the war in Iraq that may be able to defeat the insurgency and reverse Iraq's drift towards large-scale civil war.…
Autumn of the commandante; another dictator sinks
The death watch for Fidel Castro is something that only Gabriel Garcia Marquez could get right. His novel "Autumn of the Patriarch captures perfectly the moral squalor, political paralysis, and…
Lebanese sovereignty, Israeli obstacles
It has been argued that wars create opportunities for security and political changes. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 proved this saying in the negative sense. In fact, Lebanon…
Change isn't a luxury, it's a necessity to be sought by all people, says researcher
CAIRO: In light of the debate over constitutional amendments that are expected to herald a new era of political expression in the country, a political researcher stressed that the desired…
Al Azhar to study possible dialogue with the Vatican on Islam
CAIRO: The Islamic Research Center is expected on Thursday to discuss in a meeting headed by Mohamed Said Tantawy, president of the Al Azhar Institution, the final position of the…