Court adjourns ruling on shutdown workers' rights center case
CAIRO: The administrative court adjourned till Sept. 27 the case against the Cairo governor and the head of Helwan district demanding the reopening of the Center for Trade Union and…
Egypt finishes last after 12th defeat
Egypt has ended their volleyball World League adventure by losing to Cuba 3-0 on Sunday night at Cairo stadium to record their 12th straight defeat and get eliminated from the…
Writer Oz wins Spanish prize for advocating Israeli-Palestinian peace
Associated PressIsraeli intellectual Amos Oz was awarded the annual Prince of Asturias prize for literature Wednesday in recognition of his works denouncing extremism and advocating Israeli-Palestinian peace.The jury meeting in…
Egypt shares up as state insurance resumes trade
CAIRO: Egyptian shares rose on Monday, led by Orascom Telecom and housing and real state stocks because a major state-owned insurance body resumed trading on the Egyptian exchange, dealers said.…
Egypt median o/n interbank drops to 8.76 pct
CAIRO: The median overnight interbank rate on the pound dropped to 8.76 percent on Monday from 8.791 percent on Thursday in a liquid market on the last day of a…
Egyptian British Business Council to meet Tuesday in London
The Egyptian British Business Council (EBBC) will hold its biannual meeting in London on Tuesday July 3. The EBBC - an independent bilateral body composed of senior business figures from…
Inflation drops to 10 pct in May – report
CAIRO: Inflation in Egypt declined to 10 percent in the year to May 2007 from 11.7 percent in the year to April, a monthly government report on economic indicators showed…
Mystery and skepticism shroud billionaire Ashraf Marwan's tragic death
CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak told newspapers that Ashraf Marwan "was a real Egyptian nationalist and was not a spy to any party at all, reported the Associated Press. The president…
Admin court postpones government appeal in Nour's case again
CAIRO: After delaying the government appeal against a case filed by Ayman Nour's supporters by one day, the administrative court agreed Monday to further postpone the hearing until Sept. 2,…
Ghazl Mahala workers threaten to hold 'open scale strike'
CAIRO: More than 10,000 workers in Ghazl Al Mahala Company have renewed their sit-in last Sunday for half an hour and threatened to escalate the protest to an open scale…