New Yorkers, US groups denounce attack of Muslim taxi driver
NEW YORK: New Yorkers, including the city's mayor, and several national US organizations, strongly condemned Wednesday the attack of a taxi driver believed to have been targeted because he is…
Tough away tasks for Kabylie, Mazembe
JOHANNESBURG: African Champions League pacesetters JS Kabylie of Algeria and TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo put unbeaten records on the line this weekend. Group B leaders Kabylie,…
300 new schools to open this year, no increase in tuition fees, says minister
CAIRO: Egypt’s Minister of Education Ahmed Zaki Badr, announced that 300 new schools around the country will start operating for the first time in the new academic year this September.…
Wadi goes fishing in Egypt’s desert
CAIRO: A marine fish farm in the middle of the desert? It’s possible. Mahmoud Shokry Asfoor, an aquaculturalist at the Wadi Natroun fish farm, says it may even be the…
Offices to mediate marital disputes pro bono, says minister
CAIRO: Minister of Justice Mamdouh Marei announced last week that the family courts’ Office of Dispute Settlement (ODS) will offer services to mediate between married couples for free. The ODS…
Egypt housing project on track for 500,000 units
CAIRO: A state project aiming to ease Egypt's housing shortage is on track to meet or exceed its goal of providing half a million homes by the end of next…
Euromoney Conference to tackle policy, strategy
The annual Euromoney Egypt Conference will take place September 28-29 in Cairo, and will serve as a platform for policy and strategy announcements under the title “Investing to Compete: Competing…
Piraeus renames investment fund manger|
Fenex Kato for Investment Funds Management, which manages the shares of Piraeus Bank’s investment fund, was renamed Piraeus-Egypt for Securities Portfolio and Investment Funds Management, the bank said in a…
Beltone starts technical analysis traded equity fund
Cairo-based investment bank Beltone Financial will put LE 5 million ($880,000) into a new open-ended equity fund that will make investments relying only on technical analysis, Bloomberg reported. With LE…
Ezz Steel Q2 net jumps, beats forecasts
Egypt's Ezz Steel said on Thursday its second-quarter net profit more than tripled and forecast that growing global demand for steel would push prices higher in the second half of…