Damietta customs authorities on Sunday thwarted an attempt to smuggle two containers coming from an Arab country with about 20 million drug pills inside.
The authorities acted upon a tip-off from anti-narcotic department that a person holding the (...)
Electricity prices increase
WITH Egypt being hit by a series of early summer heat waves, many people are preparing themselves for higher electricity bills, especially after this week's increases in tariffs.
Electricity prices will increase by an (...)
Interviews with the deceased
Rijal Hawla Al-Watan
Mohsen Abdel-Aziz, Rijal Hawla Al-Watan (Men around the Homeland), Battana, 2019, pp.285
Few books have gathered as many portraits-biographies of major national figures as deftly as Al-Ahram's (...)
The Industrial Development Bank (IDB) purchased a land plot of 5,350 sqm in the New Administrative Capital to establish the bank's new headquarters, Maged Fahmy, chairperson of the IDB, said.
The bank has contracted with the Armed Forces Engineering (...)
The countries of the eastern Mediterranean are on course for some choppy waters. Following Turkey's announcement on May 6, that its ships would continue to explore for oil and gas in an area of the sea that Cyprus considers to be part of its (...)
Egypt's Education Ministry said on Thursday five new Japanese schools will open their doors to students within the next school year, bringing the total number of Japanese schools operating in Egypt to 40.
The new schools are part of an ambitious (...)
The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 announced astounding changes in the East Mediterranean. At the time, it seemed to simply facilitate navigation and connectivity (there were no airplanes back then). This feat was enough to create a deep rivalry (...)
The Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company (EETC) has signed seven contracts with the Egyptian German Electrical Manufacturing Company (Egemac) and TBEA alliances to supply electric transformers and equipment worth EGP 656m.
Sabah Meshaly, (...)
Uber Egypt and Dryve, the first peer-to-peer car sharing platform in the Middle East, unveiled on Monday launching a strategic partnership in the country to provide access to vehicles using technology for those who wish to drive for Uber.
The (...)
Activist released on parole
AFTER spending five years in Tora prison for taking part in an unlicensed protest, blogger and human rights activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, 37, was released on Friday. The news broke on Twitter when his sister Mona Seif (...)
Egypt's total public and private investments increased to 721.1 billion Egyptian pounds ($41.7 billion) during the financial year 2017/2018 from 514.3 billion pounds during the financial year 2016/2017, the Cabinet's media centre said on Monday.
In (...)
Egyptian food producer Edfina, an affiliate to the Holding Company for Food Industries, says it targets a 30 percent surge in its sales for the financial year 2018/2019.
The company seeks to reach sales worth 110 million Egyptian pounds ($6.3 (...)
The East Mediterranean Gas Company (EMG) aims to start transmitting 150m cubic feet of gas per day (scf/day) from the fields of Delek and Noble in the Mediterranean to the Egyptian liquefaction factories by June after finishing the inspection of the (...)
The Minister of Transportation, Kamel Al Wazir, held a meeting on Monday with leaders of the National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) in order to discuss the developments of the new projects. The meeting addressed implementation of the electrified (...)
The Minister of Health, Hala Zayed, announced on Monday that the ministry has examined 5 million school students since mid-February.
The first phase of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's initiative for detecting anaemia, obesity, and stunting was (...)
A delegation of the World Bank Group (WB) inspected on Tuesday the implementation of a bunch of sanitation projects in Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag.
Mohammed Badri, Sohag Potable Water and Sanitation Company's head, held a meeting with the (...)
The General Authority for Investment & Free Zones (GAFI) is currently establishing 12 new investment zones, including four in Cairo, two in Qalyubia, and one in each of Sharkia, Alexandria, Fayoum, Giza, Dakhalia and Damietta, Minister of Investment (...)
The Egyptian Parliament's Housing Committee has approved on Saturday presidential decree No 43 of 2019 for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) loan to improve rural sanitation services.
In late December 2018, the AIIB's board of (...)
Egypt's Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly haired on Thursday a meeting to review the progress rate of the establishment of Dameitta Furniture City on a space of 331 feddans.
Madbouly, during a meeting attended by several ministers, said President (...)
The education and health ministries have launched a joint campaign to combat obesity, anaemia and stunting among school students. In a press conference earlier this week Minister of Education Tarek Shawki and the Minister of Health and Population (...)
The Spanish Union Fenosa Gas (UFG) denies media reports that any settlement has been reached with the Egyptian government in regards to the dispute about the gas supply to the Damietta Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant, the company announced on (...)
The Egyptian government has agreed with the foreign partners in the Damietta Liquefaction Plant to export about 550m cubic feet (scf) of gas daily to international markets by April after a suspension which lasted for six years.
A source at the (...)
The ministry of finance has signed contracts to establish 24 new language schools in the system through public-private partnership (PPP).
The ministry of finance said in a statement issued on Saturday that it signed eight contracts with eight (...)
Egypt will require $675 billion of investment over the next 20 years to meet its infrastructure needs, according to the G20 group of countries' Global Infrastructure Outlook. And while the government could afford around two-thirds of that amount, (...)
The European Union (EU) is keen to support Egypt's vision to become a regional gas hub. Furthermore, the EU supports the country in potentially using Egyptian liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities in Idku and Damietta in order to export gas and to (...)
