State-owned insurers warn of growing losses in mandatory auto insurance
CAIRO: State-owned insurance companies have urged the Ministry of Investment and industry regulators to increase premiums on the mandatory automotive insurance and to put a cap on claims' value. The…
Rachid expects stock of US investments in Egypt to increase by 12.5 percent
CAIRO: Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohamed Rachid expects the US investment stock in Egypt to hit $18 billion by the end of 1H2007, growing 12.5 percent from the…
Insurance operators join in fierce price wars
CAIRO: The national insurance market has entered into a new phase of price wars between companies amid charges launched against regulators of neglecting the perilous impacts of price competition on…
Fantasies on wheels
A colleague of mine, who is obviously looking for a cheap form of transport and not going through a mid-life crisis, I strenuously point out, has been harping on about…
The European Union is ailing? If you think so, look again
As the European Union prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome later this month, the EU is widely perceived to be on its knees. European integration…
Use the Arab peace plan to tackle final-status issues
An Israeli-Palestinian discussion of the broad territorial, security and legal outlines of a Palestinian state is a good idea that has resurfaced for all the wrong reasons. US Secretary of…
The real meaning of the Mecca agreement
In the month since the agreement reached in Mecca between Fatah and Hamas, the implications for Palestine and the region have become increasingly apparent. The "Mecca agreement may have registered…
Nationality: Unclear
The Media Line Ltd.They regard Bashar Al-Asad as their leader; they hang Syrian flags in their homes; their mother tongue is Arabic, and they see Israel as an occupying nation.…
