CAIRO: EgyptAir decided today December 13 to cut its ticket prices by 20 percent to help support the “Buy Egyptian” campaign that beginning on Friday 16.
The campaign calls on all Egyptians to purchase only Egyptian products this Friday.
All (...)
CAIRO: EgyptAir today decided to cut its ticket prices by 20 percent to help support the “Buy Egyptian” campaign.
The campaign calls on all Egyptians to purchase only Egyptian products this Friday.
All seat grades (economy, first class, (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Advisory Council's role will conclude when a new Egyptian President is elected, reported the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).
“The role of the advisory council is domestic in nature and will serve as a liaison (...)
CAIRO: Chairman of the Cairo Court of Appeals Abdel Moez Ibrahim today decided to appoint certain judges from the Court to investigate the Maspero clashes in coordination with the Egyptian Public Prosecution.
Chief of the Supreme Council of the (...)
CAIRO: Egyptians from the nine governorates of Giza, Sharqia, Menoufia, Suez, Beheira, Beni Suef, Aswan and Sohag will be voting in the parliamentary election's second phase tomorrow.
The number of eligible voters, who are 18 or above, in the two (...)
CAIRO: 400 Egyptian organization and figures have been funded by Arab, European and American countries, according to an investigation conducted by two judges from the Egyptian Ministry of Justice.
A statement by the judge said there are 35,000 (...)
CAIRO: A young man injured in November's deadly clashes in downtown Cairo died early Saturday morning in Qasr el-Aini Hospital.
Ahmed Mohammad Saleh, 21, was shot in the back of his neck. His family is waiting to receive his body so it can be (...)
CAIRO: Representatives of the Egyptian Pharmacy Syndicate meet with Minister of Health Fouad Nawawi on Saturday. They met to discuss a series of problems facing the Pharmacy and Drug sectors, said syndicate deputy Seif Allah Imam.
The (...)
DURBAN, South Africa: Egyptian arable land is being eroded by building and land degradation, according to a report by the United Nations environmental program delivered at the climate summit in Durban, South Africa.
Arable lands are turning (...)
WASHINGTON: The Egyptian Advisory Council will cease its duties until a new president is elected, said Egyptian Defense Attaché to the U.S. Mohamed el-Keshky.
Keshky's statements came during a meeting with U.S. congressmen.
The Supreme Council (...)
CAIRO: An Egyptian metro train conductor died this morning after quarreling with a passenger over a metro ticket.
Police at Gamal Abdel Nasser Metro station arrested the passenger and his wife and three children, who were with him during the (...)
QENA, Egypt: The movement of trains was halted Saturday morning due to renewed clashes between two families in Qena governorate in Upper Egypt.
The clashes between the el-Atamna and Abdel Kader families broke out near the railway station in (...)
CAIRO: After touring 12 governorates, "The Freedom Bus" stopped in Menoufia to disseminate political awareness under the slogan "Speak with the Egypt that you want to be."
The youth's initiative aims to link social classes with each other via the (...)
CAIRO: Governor of South Sinai Khaled Fouda will inaugurate the exhibition of handmade work in the sixth International Symposium Sharm el-Sheikh for the fine arts in Laguna Vista Sharm el-Sheikh Hotel on December 18.
More than 50 artists from 17 (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Cultural Child Palace won the first and the second place in the drawing competition for the Arab Forum for Water, entitled "Co-existence with water scarcity."
The participating children are between 8 to 21 years old; Dina Mustafa (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian shareholders' dealings reached 57.94 percent of total security dealings during the past week, while foreign and Arab shareholders obtained 37.32 percent and 4.74 percent respectively, after excluding transactions. The total of (...)
Germany is ready to help the Arab Spring countries including Egypt, said German Minister of Economics and Technology and Vice Chancellor Philipp Rosler on Thursday December 8 during his meeting with the Egyptian Minister of Industry and Foreign (...)
CAIRO: Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) will participate in the fourth session of the International Forum for Alliance of Civilizations in Doha from December 11 to 13.
The participation came upon the invitation (...)
CAIRO: Egyptians main stock index EGX30 declined by 2.88 percent during the past week dealings to close at 3.970 points, while index EGX70 went down by 1.97 to close at 459 points.
Index EGX100 decreased by 2.19 percent, closing at 705 points (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's weak growth rates will continue in the near term, while the real annual growth rates could record only 2 percent during the fiscal year of 2011- 2012, according to a report issued by the Monitor Business Institute of the Egyptian (...)
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt: Students at the Bibliotheca Alexandria Science and Engineering Fair (Intel BASEF) won four prizes at the competition of Intel BASEF in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, held from Nov. 27 to 30.
The competition is the first Arab (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian educational system suffers from a large economic crisis because of shortages in the budget and the deteriorating situations of teachers, said the chairman of the Institute of Educational Research, Kamal Mogheth, at a symposium (...)
MEDINA, Saudi Arabia: There were 18 people killed and 22 injured in a road accident in Quraeda, eastern Medina.
The passenger bus crashed into another vehicle after the end of their workday heading home. Six Egyptians were killed and two injured, (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri met with Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Gouda Abdel Khalek and Minister of Petroleum Mohamed Ghorab to discuss the gas canisters crisis.
The new cabinet is considering using the armed forces (...)
CAIRO: There were clashes with white weapons used among the vendors in Tahrir Square, leaving one injured on Wednesday December 7.
Clashes started when one vendor worker catcalled a female vendor. Half an hour later, the female vendor and her (...)