UN Resident Coordinator reflects on five year's of service in Egypt
CAIRO: Sometimes, there just are not enough hours in a day, especially when your life s work is dedicated to tackling the social and developmental problems in Egypt. For the…
Telecom talk
CAIRO: Akil Bashir the chairman of Telecom Egypt; the country's only fixed line operator announced that due to losses incurred by the company in its local call service being estimated…
Poor Egyptians refuse to sign up to bird flu cull
NAWA, Egypt: Mohsen Rizq insists there is no poultry left in his village after a local died of bird flu two weeks ago, but the cacophony of squawking coming from…
Leather production constrained by lack of investment in tanneries and components
CAIRO: There is a by-product to the nation s beef consumption. The conversion of animal skin into leather products has created a community of artisans and an industry for clothing…
EFG-Hermes, Telecom Egypt climb on bourse
CAIRO: A rally in EFG-Hermes Holdings and Telecom Egypt helped the stock market edge higher on Wednesday, brokers said. The benchmark Hermes index climbed 401.94 points, or 0.7 percent, to…
Egypt warns that using force against Iran's nuclear assets would increase terrorism
CAIRO: Any attempt to attack Iran s nuclear facilities would destabilize the Middle East and increase terrorism across the world, President Hosni Mubarak said in comments published Tuesday.Speaking in an…
Opposition takes to the net
CAIRO: A "free opinion Web site launched by a group of Islamists and political activists who are seeking sanctuary in London and who were allegedly persecuted in Egypt has become…
Looking to boost cooperation with the Gulf
CAIRO: Picking up where President Hosni Mubarak left off, Minister of Investment, Dr. Mahmoud Moheiddin, continued his whirlwind tour of the Gulf, with stops in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The…
Syriana tackling conduct
CAIRO: Hollywood's fascination with portraying the Arab as bad is nothing new. On the contrary, it has been going on for decades, with films like Laurence of Arabia, True Lies…
Thousands make their way to Salum to view eclipse
CAIRO: Thousands of Egyptians, tourists, astronomers and the Egyptian president, watched Wednesday s total solar eclipse from a prime location, an isolated desert town on the Libyan border, where darkness…