Having stormed and illegally occupied 1800 empty flats in 6th of October City on Tuesday, people illegally entered 18 more buildings of the National Social Housing Project, seizing 360 further flats on Wednesday.
In a clearly well-planned move, they (...)
Organized groups on Monday stormed the National Project for Social Housing in 6th of October City and occupied 1800 flats there, some of which already belonged to beneficiaries of the project.
Those who stormed the buildings, reportedly "thugs", (...)
The Urban Communities Authority is in the process of signing a protocol with the Planning and International Cooperation Ministry and the armed forces to remove mines from some 40,000 acres of land in the city of New Alamein.
Minefields constitute 55 (...)
Egyptian al-Sharq al-Awsat radio station has stopped broadcasting one of its programs after a minister criticized the show and accused the producers of attacking the government.
The crew for Misr fi Thalaath Saat (Egypt in Three Hours) was surprised (...)
Recent flooding and torrential rains in Egypt have affected the Nile River, causing higher-than-usual rates of water turbidity and discoloration, according to specialists.
“The flooding has filled the Nile with large amounts of dust and sand,” Abdel (...)
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is set to establish a state land protection authority following impending parliamentary elections, sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
The move will come via presidential decree.
The authority's mandate will unite all (...)
Prominent Egyptian property developer the Arab Contractors Company plans to open two branches in Iraq--in Baghdad and Erbil--after a four-year absence from the war-torn country due to unstable security conditions.
Arab Contractors President Ibrahim (...)
The legal committee tasked with re-evaluating land associated with the Madinaty urban development project this week recommended that the Housing Ministry charge the Talaat Mustafa Group (TMG), which owns the project, LE13.9 billion in the form of (...)
Education Minister Ahmed Zaki Badr ordered that the Gozour private school be put under his ministry's supervision for violating regulations by opening its kindergarten before the official start of the academic year.
The ministry's monitoring (...)
The Independent Teachers Syndicate will hold the first popular trial, a mock court proceeding, of the Minister of Education on 15 September at one of the journalists syndicate locations.
The date of the trial, which is expected to last three hours, (...)
A dispute between the Education Ministry and private study guide publishers has escalated after a number of publishers and authors sent a letter to Education Minister Ahmed Zaki Badr and the Head of the General Department for Book Affairs to protest (...)
The Ministry of Education will downsize its budget for printing school books this year, according to a senior ministry source. A number of syllabus and activity books were merged in order to reduce the printing cost from LE1.32 billion to LE950 (...)
Education Minister Ahmed Zaki Badr has announced a decision to modify the curriculum for primary and secondary school students, with changes taking effect at the beginning of the 2010-2011 academic year. Ministry sources point to plans to remove (...)
The announcement of exam results for the second and third years of the 2009/10 academic year of high school has been approved by Minister of Education Ahmed Zaki Badr.
High school in Egypt lasts three years, the last two years of which are known as (...)
The Nile Schools, funded by the Educational Development Fund and administered by the Egyptian Council of Ministers, are now accepting applications from parents who want to enroll their children for the coming academic year (2010--2011). At the (...)
Minister of Education Ahmed Zaki Badr has decided to grant an extra two months' salary to staff at the General Authority of Educational Buildings, and to reactivate the medical care provided to the staff in an attempt to solve the recent crisis (...)
Al-Masry Al-Youm has learned that the marking of Thanaweya Amma (the last two years of high school) exam papers will be completed tomorrow, ending with chemistry exams. The results are due to be announced next week.
A number of exam graders have (...)
The founding committee of the Independent Teachers Syndicate staged a protest on Monday in front of the Education Ministry building to demand the resignation of Education Minister Ahmad Zaki Badr and Health Minister Hatem el-Gabali following the (...)
Nearly half million of Thanwaeyya Amma (secondary school) students started on Saturday their examinations in 1358 government-supervised exam centers throughout Egypt.
Thanwaeyya exams, scheduled to end on 27 June, are traditionally seen as anxious (...)
“I prefer whoever God prefers,” Mubarak answered while pointing to the sky. With this response, Mubarak once again opened the door for debate over who will succeed him as president. He then proceeded to repeat the answer three times when a foreign (...)
Kenya has signed onto a new agreement on the distribution of Nile water that goes against Egypt's wishes. With Kenya's support, the initiative now has five signatories.
Four Nile Basin states--Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda--gathered in (...)
Housing Minister Ahmed el-Maghraby said the government planned to introduce gradual amendments to the law regulating apartment rentals in coming months. The amendments will begin with flats rented to expatriates, companies and shops.
"Now the (...)
According to a report by the Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center, the average Egyptian household yearly expenditure for 2008/2009 was LE3170. The report also said that 86 percent of Egypt's poor are not satisfied with their economic (...)
The Ministry of Housing and authorities in Aswan Governorate are seizing donations intended to help victims of last January's floods, an architecture consultant with knowledge of the relief efforts said in a press release yesterday.
Mamdouh Hamza, (...)
The legal row over housing units allocated for flood victims in Aswan's Wadi el-Allaqi district has been referred to state prosecutors by Aswan Governor Mustafa el-Sayyid. El-Sayyid accuses project consultant Mamdouh Hamza and the Muwasa (...)