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OCI posts 53 percent rise in H1 net profit

CAIRO: Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) first-half net profit rose 53 percent on…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Median interbank rate steady at 8.5 percent

CAIRO: The median overnight interbank rate on the pound was stable at…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Internet giant bases Middle East activities in Egypt

CAIRO: Google Inc., the company behind the world's most popular search engine,…

Daily News Egypt

DJ Junior talks about the party scene

Local partygoers more interested in the venue than the DJCAIRO: DJ Junior…

Farah El Alfy

Naguib Mahfouz, an icon of Arab literature, passes away at 94

With a Nobel Prize for Literature, an Order of the Nile, a…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Polavara to raise $41 million in rights issue

CAIRO: Textile firm Arab Polavara plans to raise LE 234 million ($41…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Smoke fears force EgyptAir plane to land in Canada

OTTAWA: An Egyptian airliner flying from Cairo to New York with 313…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Heavy jail terms handed down in corruption case

CAIRO: A well-known Egyptian businessman and several public bank officials were handed…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Dubai no longer an employee's paradise

Rising costs of living are forcing many foreigners homeward boundDUBAI: Ali Mahmoud,…

Daily News Egypt

Increased IT development vital to Egypt's future

CAIRO: With studies indicating only 4 percent of Egyptians own computers, the…

Sarah El Sirgany