Qaddafi hosts African summit on eve of coup anniversary
TRIPOLI: African leaders gathered in Libya on Monday for a special summit to discuss the continent s trouble spots, on the eve of celebrations to mark 40 years of Moammar…
Border residents to be compensated for damages from surveillance measures
CAIRO: Residents in Rafah and on the border with Gaza are to be compensated by the government for damage incurred while putting in place a new US surveillance system aimed…
ONE ON ONE: P&G employees give workplace thumbs up
CAIRO: P&G aims to please. At this dynamic company, consumers, community and employees are coming away satisfied, thanks to ongoing efforts to invest in sustainability. Recently the company was awarded…
Private equity emerging markets seen down in '09
DUBAI: Long-term prospects for the private equity sector in emerging markets remain upbeat, even as the industry expects activity to slow down further this year, research by Deloitte and Arbor…
Egypt to amend mortgage finance law
CAIRO: Egypt plans to amend its mortgage finance law to facilitate access to funding particularly to youth, Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieldin told local press. The amendments will be presented to…
Mobile operators Ramadan offers 'deceptive', says TE
CAIRO: Telecom Egypt has called the promotional pricing offers announced for the month of Ramadan by local mobile operators "deceptive, Al-Masry Al-Youm reported. The local telecom giant, the country s…
US race row raises questions over Bollywood's spin machine
In India s highly competitive Bollywood movie industry, any publicity is good publicity as studios battle to secure maximum exposure for their upcoming films.Dozens of public relations firms have sprung…
A message of hope in Ramadan
High above Cairo's hustle and bustle, inside the Saladin Citadel, the Ministry of Culture inaugurated its Ramadan cultural program "Layali Al-Mahrousa (Nights of Blessed Egypt) last Thursday. The cultural program…
Innovation and philosophy
MIAMI: Is it possible to learn to innovate? Is innovation something that can be taught at school?After reading literature by some of the world's leading experts on innovation - Clayton…
A Japanese metamorphosis?
OSAKA: Yesterday's landslide general-election victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) terminated the one-party-dominated system that the catch-all Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled almost without interruption since 1955.…