Coach Younes quits Egypt’s U-20 team
CAIRO: Coach Mostafa Younes has quit Egypt's U-20 team for the sake of his media job, FilGoal.com has learnt. The former Ahly star informed Egyptian FA chairman Samir Zaher of…
Four steel licenses awarded to curb shortage as demand expected to rise
CAIRO: The government has handed out four new steel licenses in an attempt to reduce the shortage of the local steel supply, local media reports recently stated. Through the new…
Egypt’s auto industry moves up a gear
CAIRO: Reforms in Egypt’s car industry designed to ensure the quality and standardization of car components, along with measures to encourage exports and a scheme to modernize the country’s ageing…
US to wrap up its first entrepreneurship competition in Egypt
CAIRO: The US State Department’s Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) business competition will conclude during the second week of Jan. 2011, in which one or two innovative start-up firms will receive…
Women’s soccer clinic held to build program in Egypt
CAIRO: “They’ve come really because the concept of ‘soccer without borders’ is one we all understand,” commented United States ambassador to Egypt Margaret Scobey. Recently, the United States embassy in…
Getting corruption right
By Jagdish Bhagwati NEW YORK: I just returned from India, where I was lecturing to the Indian Parliament in the same hall where US President Barack Obama had recently spoken. The…
Egypt in danger as glory beckons Botswana
By David Legge / AFP JOHANNESBURG: Defending champions Egypt are teetering on the brink of elimination from the African Nations Cup going into the new year while Botswana are just one…
Obama names envoy to Syria, bypassing Congress
HONOLULU: President Barack Obama on Wednesday bypassed Congress to name the first US ambassador to Syria in nearly six years, part of his Middle East engagement drive criticized by Republican…
A time to spend
By J. Bradford DeLong BERKELEY: The central insight of macroeconomics is a fact that was known to John Stuart Mill in the first third of the nineteenth century: there can be…
British feared Israel would nuke Arabs: archives
By AFP LONDON: British diplomats feared Israel would use nuclear weapons in the event of another war with its Arab neighbors, secret files released Thursday showed. In 1980, British officials…
