Dairy farmers call for anti-dumping tariff, producers warn of soaring prices
CAIRO: The past four months have seen an ongoing battle in Egypt's dairy sector as a decline in global demand for dairy products pushed prices down and increased the volume…
ECA beings cement sector investigation
CAIRO: The Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) last week began investigating anti-competitive practices in Egypt's cement industry, sources told Daily News Egypt.The ECA said that the directive to launch the probe…
Positive growth for Mideast luxury goods in 2009: report
CAIRO: The Middle East luxury goods market will maintain positive growth in 2009, according to a semi-annual update of Bain & Company's "Luxury Worldwide Market report released yesterday. According to…
G8 takes first step against food price speculation
CISON DI VALMARINO: The Group of Eight rich nations took a first step Monday towards fighting speculators who have helped push up the cost of basic foods, sparking riots in…
On the road with El-Dor El-Awwal
Great jazz is happening in Cairo these days. There's only one problem: Not enough people know about it. That was my overarching thought as Egyptian independent band El-Dor El-Awwal's two-hour…
Four new temples discovered in Sinai
CAIRO: Archaeologists exploring an old military road in Sinai have unearthed four new temples amidst the 3,000-year-old remains of an ancient fortified city that could have been used to impress…
'Da Vinci Code' sequel to be published in Sept
A follow-up by writer Dan Brown to his hugely popular conspiracy thriller The Da Vinci Code will go on sale in September, the publishers and author said Monday. The Lost…
'A Whiter Shade of Pale' Britain's most played song
Procul Harum s 1967 classic A Whiter Shade of Pale is the most-played song in public places in Britain over the last 75 years, the music licensing body said last…
The treason of the economists
LONDON: All epoch-defining events are the result of conjunctures - the correlation of normally unconnected events that jolt humanity out of a rut. Such conjunctures create what the author Nassim…
Serving the public's best interests: A journalist's dilemma
TEL AVIV: In January 2000, several days after the crucial meeting between then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa, which took place under the auspices of…