The European Union and the United States on Monday imposed sanctions on individuals and groups linked to last month's military coup in Myanmar as the repression of pro-democracy protesters by security forces reached what Germany's foreign minister (...)
Venezuela has invited Egypt to join the oil output cut deal of OPEC and participating non-OPEC countries, Eulogio Del Pino, Minister of the People's Ministry of Petroleum of Venezuela wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
Del Pino said on a visit to Moscow, (...)
The International Silat Championship is scheduled to take place on 2 December in Bali, Indonesia. Following their win at the Egyptian Silat National Championship in 2015, Ahmed El-Zoghby and Abdel Rahman Ramadan have qualified for the upcoming (...)
Beauty incarnate
Against the stunning backdrop of the historical Salaheddin Citadel, competitors for the title of Miss Egypt 2014 were presented in the presence of stars and media figures as well as the jury members, including contest organiser (...)
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina saw the opening ceremony of the 30th Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries under the auspices of Alexandria Governor Tarek Mahdi.
Veteran actor Nour Al-Sherif, who was honoured at the event, said he was (...)
قطر qatar ، و يصل ناتجها المحلي الإجمالي إلى 182 بليون دولار ، و تعدادها حوالي 2 مليون نسمة ، و لكنها تعد أغنى دولة في العالم ، يعتمد إقتصادها في الأساس على النفط ، و الذي يساهم ب 85% من أرباح صادراتها ، و تشمل أيضا مجالات أخرى لتوليد الدخل من (...)
Fatimid fun
The Cultural Development Fund's Beit Al-Seheimi Centre is holding a qarakoz and shadow puppet performance on Al-Muez Street every Friday at 3pm. The centre also recently presented a folk-inspired clown performance called Al-Temsah (The (...)
A press conference was held on Monday at the Semiramis InterContinental Hotel to announce the second round of India by the Nile Festival. It was attended by the Indian Ambassador to Egypt Navdeep Suri, his wife Mani, Camelia Sobhi from the Foreign (...)
The International Islamic Financial Market (IIFM) today released its much awaited IIFM Sukuk Report (3rd Edition) which consists of A Comprehensive Study of the Global Sukuk Market. The research report sheds light on the growth and development of (...)
The Council of the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) today resolved to appoint its Chairman and Deputy Chairman for the year 2013. The Governor of Qatar Central Bank , H.E. Sheikh Abdullah Saoud Al-Thani will steer the Chairmanship of the (...)
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak, at the end of a three-day official visit to the Philippines this week said he hopes the two countries can boost economic relations.
Speaking during a breakfast meeting with the (...)
JAKARTA: According to a new report that looks at the treatment of Indonesian domestic workers in the Asia-Pacific region, Taiwan made Indonesia women suffer the most, the Indonesian National Manpower Placement and Protection Agency reported.
A (...)
Fajr Capital Limited has announced its acquisition of Dubai International Capital 's stake in the MENA Infrastructure Fund. Fajr Capital will take its place alongside the two other general partners and co-sponsors of the fund, HSBC Bank Middle East (...)
The United Nations envoy on sport for peace on Friday welcomed the decision made by Saudi Arabia to send female athletes to London to compete in the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
“This decision, following a similar one by Brunei Darussalam and (...)
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's government announced on Friday that it was pushing forward on its efforts to boost the use of the Malay language in the country.
Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP), the country's (...)
Saudi Arabia is to send two female athletes to complete in the London 2012 Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said.
Sarah Attar will compete in the 800m and Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani in the judo competition.
The Saudi (...)
Bandar Seri Begawan (The Brunei Times/ANN) – The Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources (MIPR) will be updating the Wildlife Protection Act 1978 “very soon” following the recent transfer of responsibility of wildlife management to the ministry, (...)
Bandar Seri Begawan (The Brunei Times/ANN) – Brunei Darussalam and the State of Qatar embarked on a new era of friendship and cooperation yesterday with the signing of two Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) and two agreements that will further (...)
The qualifying draw in Rio de Janeiro is the first major World Cup event in Brazil since the South American nation was awarded the competition for the first time in 64 years.
In Asia, Japan will face Uzbekistan, Syria and North Korea in Group C, (...)
Joseph Blatter will be the president of football's world governing body for four more years. Will they be more of the same? Inas Mazhar tries to find out
It's not over yet for Joseph Blatter and FIFA. Following a torrid week of accusations and (...)
With no opponent, Joseph Blatter was confirmed FIFA president even before the elections. From the Home of FIFA in Zurich, Inas Mazhar reports on the bizarre end of a soccer scandal. But has the story really ended?
The re-election of Sepp Blatter, (...)
Countries which continue to use the death penalty are being left increasingly isolated following a decade of progress towards abolition, Amnesty International has said today in its new report Death Sentences and Executions in 2010.
A total of 31 (...)
Attending the APEC Summit, Ramzy Baroud* discerns the global shift in the balance of power to the Pacific from the Atlantic
Like scores of journalists, I attentively listened as Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivered his closing remarks (...)
Remains of the day
In Al-Manzala Lake, specifically at the village of Borg Al-Borolous, near Damietta, Sherif Sonbol captured the old fishing boats that are now sinking into oblivion in the face of the relentless forward march of the motorboat.
The (...)
Karl Marx predicted that states would wither away in anticipation of an idyllic communist society capable of auto-regulating economic imbalances and empowering the masses. So he would have been flabbergasted to see his prophecy realized, not by (...)