Doctors in Hurghada have reported what they believe could be Egypt's first case of E. coli infection since the recent outbreak of the illness in Europe.
A German tourist in the Red Sea resort of Marsa Alam suffered severe stomach pains and was taken (...)
Electricity authorities in Egypt's Red Sea Governorate have filed complaints against 30 resorts and hotels owners, warning them that power may be cut for failure to pay electricity bills for four months.
The resort owners warned include Shahinaz (...)
Security authorities in Egypt's Red Sea Governorate have warned of plans by elements of the ousted regime to provoke unrest during the Hurgada International Squash Championship, which is due to run from 12 May to 19 May.
The authorities warned that (...)
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has extended the state of emergency until after the parliamentary and presidential elections.
The Emergency Law will be applied to acts of sectarian strife, thuggery, vandalism of public and private property, (...)
The Red Sea Prosecution on Thursday heard the testimony of Mohamed Hashem, lawyer of the families of the victims of the al-Salam 98 ferry that sank in the Red Sea in 2006. The lawyer had submitted a request to the attorney general to reopen (...)
About 300 laborers in Sukari gold mine near the southern Red Sea coastal town of Marsa Alam decided to embark on hunger strike last Saturday. They attributed the strike to poor salaries, increased working hours, wrongdoings by company officials, and (...)
Scattered groups of desert locusts have been discovered in Egypt's southern regions of Halayib and Shalateen, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
The ministry's locust combat unit believes the insects arrived from Sudan and Saudi Arabia, where (...)
Saudi naval forces on Sunday rescued 30 Egyptian fishermen from the Red Sea after their vessel succumbed to escalating waves and violent winds ten miles off the Saudi coast.
Saudi border guards sent one of their rescue units to tow the ship, named (...)
Two Russians, one Kenyan, and an Egyptian suffered injuries following a collision between a tourist bus and a private car near the city of Hurghada, Red Sea.
The victims suffered breaks and bruises and were carried to a Hurghada hospital. Police (...)
About 85 workers at Imperial Shams resort in Red Sea's Safaga suffered food poisoning on Saturday following lunch at a staff cafeteria.
They were taken to hospitals in Hurgada and Safaga where they underwent stomach pumping.
A report was filed at (...)
Egyptian authorities on Sunday closed down the branch of the travel agency that had organized the trip for the tourists who were killed on Friday when their bus overturned in the Red Sea resort city of Hurghada.
Red Sea Governor Magdi al-Qubeisi (...)
State Minister for Environmental Affairs, Maged George, has decided to form a joint commission with the ministry's branch at the Red Sea governorate to investigate environmental breaches in Hurghada, where two tourist resorts used heavy machinery to (...)
Hurgada--Around 400 people lay down in the streets near Safaga seaport because of mistakes made with reservations by a number of travel companies. Passengers were supposed to board the liner el-Muttahida.
The haphazard booking process prevented (...)
Red Sea Governor Magdi Kobeisi announced on Sunday that an oil spill off the coast of Hurghada had been successfully cleaned up after only four days.
"The shoreline is clean now and local diving centers have reopened," he said.
The ministries of (...)
Massive oil spills appeared yesterday in the Red Sea, covering a distance of approximately 20km from el-Gouna in the north down to Sahl Hashish in the south. The source of the spill has yet to be identified.
Environmental authorities had received (...)
The first shipment of imported Ethiopian calves has reached Egypt, carrying 2,216 of the 15,000 calves that Egypt is to import from the East African country.
The shipment comes after an agreement concluded by Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif during his (...)
Aswan Governor Mustafa el-Sayid has decided to impose a one-month fishing ban on Lake Nasser beginning Friday. The ban also applies to all boats working in the ports of Aswan, Abu Simbel and Garf Hussein and is an opportunity for the lake's fish to (...)
Hurghada--A report by the Administrative Control Authority's office in Hurghada, Red Sea, has disclosed that hotels and resort owners seized three million square meters of beach reclamation lands, and used these lands for construction projects (...)
The state-run Red Sea Environmental Affairs Agency has fined the owners of an Indian oil tanker LE600,000 for causing damage to the local marine environment in the Ras Gharib region of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Large quantities of oil reportedly (...)
Swine flu continued its spread yesterday forcing the closure of three schools and two classes after new infections were discovered.
Cairo governor Abdel Azeem Wazir ordered the closure of el-Gamalia primary school and Ramsis College for 15 days (...)