Egypt prioritises small, medium, and micro-sized projects as well as investing in human capital, notably education and healthcare sectors, Investment Minister Sahar Nasr told a Swiss official.
Nasr made the statements during a meeting on Tuesday (...)
The history of the Cairo Opera goes back to the second half of the 19thcentury when the gem of architecture known as the Khedivial Opera House was inaugurated in the heart of Cairo.
Unfortunately in 1971 the opera burned down and it took 17 years (...)
European Union finance ministers agreed to remove the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Switzerland from the bloc's lists of countries deemed to be acting as tax havens, according to a statement on Thursday.
At a meeting in Luxembourg, ministers (...)
Egypt ranked 39th in the Global Competitiveness Index, up from 40th in 2018, and ninth among Arab countries, according to the Global Competitiveness Report for 2019 issued by the World Economic Forum on Wednesday.
According to the report, the United (...)
The volume of Swiss investments in Egypt over the past 40 years recorded 700 million Swiss francs, said the Swiss Embassy in Cairo on Monday.
These investments are placed in more than 200 projects to enhance the country's infrastructure, the private (...)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday defended climate protection measures condemned by critics as unambitious, while activists blocked traffic in Berlin to demand drastic action to cut carbon emissions responsible for global warming.
Speaking (...)
Kaspersky has gained a Leader status in the Forrester Wave Endpoint Security Suites 2019 evaluation. Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is cited among the top five scoring in both the current offering and market presence categories.
The (...)
Naomi Osaka and Venus Williams both advanced to the second round of the China Open on Sunday.
The No. 4-seeded Osaka won 76 percent of first serves and hit 26 winners in her 6-3, 7-6 (5) win over unseeded American Jessica Pegula.
''I just felt like (...)
Former Freiburg chairman Fritz Keller on Friday was unanimously elected President of the German Football Association (DFB), the world's largest single sports body that is struggling to bounce back from a series of scandals.
Keller, who had been (...)
Switzerland on Sunday signed an agreement to provide financial and technical support for Egypt's Global Textiles and Clothing (GTEX) programme.
The envisaged impact of the programme is to increase employment and income along the textile and clothing (...)
The 26th edition of the Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental Theatre came to an end with an official ceremony held at the Cairo Opera House on Thursday.
A presentation at the ceremony underscored the rich content of the (...)
Former African soccer leader Issa Hayatou will help organize some of the continent's top tournaments.
The Cameroon sports ministry says it has appointed Hayatou, who was FIFA's interim president in 2015-16, as a special adviser to the organizers of (...)
The clubs involved in this season's Champions League and Europa League group stages invested more than half of their transfer spending in the last window on players aged 24 and under, a report by European soccer body UEFA said on Thursday.
UEFA's (...)
The Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental Theatre (CIFCET) is kicking off its 26th edition Tuesday with a rich schedule.
With the United States as the guest of honour, the important theatre festival, which will close on 19 (...)
A European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) delegation will arrive in Cairo on Monday to discuss cooperation with Egyptian authorities and private sector companies.
tHE The four-day visit will include meetings with Egyptian Prime (...)
ألغى الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترامب، الأربعاء الماضي، زيارته إلى الدنمارك، بعد رفض رئيسة الوزراء الدنماركية فكرة بيع جزيرة جرينلاند للولايات المتحدة، قائلة إنها ليست للبيع.
ووصفت رئيسة الوزراء الدنماركية، ميت فريدريكسن، الأحد الماضي، اقتراح الرئيس (...)
A small plane has crashed in the Simplon Pass area in the Swiss Alps, killing three people on board.
Police in Valais canton (state) said the Piper plane set off Sunday morning from an airfield in western Switzerland and was headed for Italy. A (...)
The designated president of the German football association (DFB), Fritz Keller, said on Wednesday he will not take over international positions or run the DFB as a one-man show, after getting the backing of professional and amateur (...)
An Iranian tanker at the center of an angry confrontation between Iran and Washington sailed for Greece on Monday after it was freed from detention off Gibraltar, as Washington called the release unfortunate and warned Greece and Mediterranean ports (...)
Egypt's iron and steel exports declined by 30 percent during the first half of 2019 as exporters haven't received their dues from the export subsidies programme estimated at one billion Egyptian pounds ($60.3 million), Samir Naaman, official at the (...)
The German Football Association proposed Freiburg's Fritz Keller as their new president on Thursday as the world's biggest single sports association looks to end the search for a successor to Reinhard Grindel, who resigned in April.
Keller, who has (...)
United Nations investigators urged world leaders on Monday to impose targeted financial sanctions on companies linked to the military in Myanmar, and said foreign firms doing business with them could be complicit in international crimes.
A panel of (...)
The General Authority For Investments and free zones (GAFI) has registered about 462 Swiss companies working in Egypt, with total investments of $1.6bn, according to an exclusive document obtained by the Daily News Egypt.
The document revealed that (...)
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) issued the External Position of the Egyptian Economy Report. The Report tracks, on a quarterly basis, the international transactions that the Egyptian economy conducts with the rest of the world. It highlighted that (...)
The Global Innovation Index this year showed that Egypt has remarkably jumped ten spots from its ranking (105) in 2017 and three spots from its 2018 ranking.
Egypt now stands at 92 in the latest report.
However, Egypt's ranking among North (...)
