Telecom Egypt to seek mobile service: report
CAIRO: Egypt s fixed-line monopoly Telecom Egypt will need to provide mobile services to compensate for declining landline subscriptions, a company executive was quoted on Monday as saying. The company…
Russian FM meets Mubarak in Cairo
CAIRO: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks on Monday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on the second day of a visit to boost ties with his country s main…
Egypt's presence in Iraq would create balance: Iraqi FM
CAIRO: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari called on Monday for a stronger Egyptian presence in Iraq to create balance in his country, which has been plagued by a recent spate…
Muslim Brotherhood appoints new members to Guidance Office
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood elected 16 new members to its Guidance Office who will lead the group for a four-year term, Supreme Guide Mohamed Mahdi Akef said."There has been a…
Pro-Gaza march to go on as planned despite Egypt ban
CAIRO: The Gaza Freedom March will move forward with plans to march into Gaza on Dec. 31 despite having its request rejected by Egypt's foreign ministry Monday. "Our efforts and…
ACE sees more opportunities in development
CAIRO: The work of ACE Moharram Bakhoum, an engineering consultancy company, can be prominently seen around Egypt. You may not realize it, but you know their work well: whether you're…
Egypt's Crédit Agricole acquires full ownership of EHFC
CAIRO: Crédit Agricole Egypt (CAE) has fully acquired the Egyptian Housing Finance Company (EHFC) in a deal worth LE 70 million, the bank said in a statement Monday.The bank bought…
From cuisine to caricature: The shared Indo-Egypt
Adham Lutfi's black-and-white caricatures of leading personalities and Mohsen Abul Azm's vignettes of social and cultural life are currently shown in comparison at the Maulana Azad Center for Indian Culture…
Obama as climate change villain
NEW YORK: Two years of climate change negotiations have now ended in a farce in Copenhagen. Rather than grappling with complex issues, President Barack Obama decided instead to declare victory…
