A high-level delegation from the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), has visited on Tuesday Egypt's Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) project located to explore investment opportunities there.
The AfCFTA delegation, led by its Secretary (...)
A global team of researchers arrived Thursday in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to conduct a politically sensitive investigation into its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent (...)
China's Sinovac Biotech defended the safety and efficacy of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, after researchers in Brazil released late-stage clinical data showing efficacy that was much lower than initially announced.
The vaccine was (...)
A Sriwijaya Air passenger jet carrying 62 people lost contact with air traffic controllers after taking off from Indonesia's capital on Saturday on a domestic flight, officials said.
Indonesian Transportation Ministry spokesperson Adita Irawati said (...)
State-owned Telecom Egypt (TE) said on Monday it had signed an agreement to provide Google Inc. with a first-of-its-kind layer three meshed system on multiple of its redundant and resilient Egypt-crossing network infrastructure.
Under the agreement, (...)
Chinese health regulators said Thursday that they have given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm.
The two-dose vaccine is the first approved for general use in China. The go-ahead comes as the country has (...)
Global stock markets and US futures rose Monday after President Donald Trump signed a $900 billion economic aid package, helping to reduce uncertainty as governments re-impose travel and business curbs in response to a new coronavirus (...)
At the beginning of December, Singapore became the first country in the world to approve the sale of cultured chicken or what some call lab-grown or cell-based meat. These are meats grown in laboratories using animal cells. The meats taste identical (...)
Words matter. But numbers tell stories, too.
Presidential historians and others will plumb them as they assess President Donald Trump's legacy.
Trump's presidency is reflected in a broad range of numbers representing everything from the U.S. death (...)
Ten years will have passed next 25 January since the Egyptian people took to the streets to demand radical political change under the slogan “the people want to change the regime.” What they wanted was the departure of former president Hosni Mubarak (...)
The Vietnamese Grand Prix was absent from a draft 2021 calendar published by Formula One on Tuesday that featured a record 23 rounds, with a debut in Saudi Arabia and Brazil returning despite fears for that race's future.
Vietnam was due to host a (...)
Following is the 2021 calendar published by Formula One on Tuesday that features a record 23 races, including a round in Saudi Arabia for the first time.
DATE GRAND PRIX VENUE
March 21 Australia Melbourne
March 28 Bahrain Sakhir
April 11 China (...)
Asian stocks were mixed on Tuesday while airline stocks soared as investors in the region reacted to positive developments overnight on the coronavirus vaccine front.
In Japan, the Nikkei 225 rose 0.26% to close at 24,905.59 while the Topix index (...)
One of the lessons learned thus far from the Covid-19 pandemic is how health issues and the political stability of different countries are interrelated. Not only has the pandemic wreaked havoc on the world's economy, but the very fact that some of (...)
أوقفت شركة أبل متجر "آب ستور"، التابع لها اليوم، لفتح طلبات الحجز المسبق الجديدة لهواتف آيفون12 mini وiPhone 12 Pro Max وHomePod mini iPhone وHomePod mini، حيث من المنتظر أن يعود المتجر للعمل فى حوالى الساعة 5 صباحًا بتوقيت المحيط الهادئ "الثالثة (...)
Europe began counting the cost of sweeping restrictions on social life imposed to contain a surge in coronavirus infections while Britain continued to hold out against following Germany and France in ordering a second lockdown.
As the pandemic raced (...)
The United States revealed on Thursday it had seized Iranian missiles shipped to Yemen and sold 1.1 million barrels of previously seized Iranian oil that was bound for Venezuela, in the Trump administration's latest move to increase pressure on (...)
The United States on Thursday slapped sanctions on multiple entities in Iran, China and Singapore over their purchase and sale of Iranian petrochemical products, in the Trump administration's latest move to increase pressure on Tehran less than a (...)
It began with so much hope. On 25 October last year, tens of thousands of Iraqis took to the streets to push for the political and economic reforms that are badly needed to fix the country's broken governing system.
The uprising had started three (...)
U.S. stock futures and Asian shares fell Friday after President Donald Trump said he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the new coronavirus.
The future contracts for both the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials dropped nearly 2% but (...)
Viruses are ancient. They predate the divergence of life, thus infecting our last universal common ancestor.
Viruses are deadly. They kill twice as many people as cancer does — around 15 million people every year.
Viruses are simple. They are made (...)
Dancer, dramaturge and Kyoto University of the Arts teacher Nanako Nakajima was one of the earliest artists to make the transition from traditional Japanese to contemporary dance theatre, extending her work outside Japan, notably to Germany. She (...)
عقد اتحاد المصارف العربية مؤتمراً افتراضياً خلال الفترة 7-9 سبتمبر 2020 تحت عنوان "Banking in the Next Normal".
ركزت كلمات ومداخلات المؤتمر على عرض آفاق الاقتصاد والتمويل الرقميين، وطرح كيفية الاستفادة من تطورات التكنولوجيا المالية المتسارعة في (...)
Egypt plans to move the headquarters of its central bank to the new administrative capital at the end of 2021, governor Tarek Amer said late on Wednesday.
Some 28 banks will move their headquarters to the new capital city in the coming period, Amer (...)
Southeast Asia's top diplomats held their annual talks by video Wednesday to discuss the immense crisis wrought by the coronavirus pandemic and rising tensions in the South China Sea amid the escalating rivalry between Washington and Beijing.
The (...)
