Press Round-up
CAIRO: With the World Economic Forum on the Middle East making headlines, newspapers covered a variety of topics this week including the stock market crash, subsidiaries, Palestinian links to the…
Egypt asks Interpol to arrest owner of sunken ferry
CAIRO: Egypt issued an arrest warrant Wednesday which it transferred to Interpol against a businessman who fled to London after one of his ferries sank in the Red Sea, killing…
Farafra trip
ŠΘ###The field trip was jointly run by the Math and Geography departments at BISC and focused on learning through experience, above, Kareem Bishara, Ary Erzingatzian and Mazen Nadim##Students were able…
Devil in disguise
CAIRO: With the increase in credit card usage, shopping is getting easier. But as the bill reaches a new high every month, card owners are also paying the even higher…
El-Bastawisy leaves hospital and thanks his supporters
CAIRO: An Egyptian judge reprimanded for blowing the whistle on alleged electoral fraud left the hospital Tuesday morning after heart surgery, his wife said.Hesham El-Bastawisy suffered a heart attack last…
EU outlines farm moves
Reuters PARIS: The European Union outlined to the United States on Tuesday how it might improve on its agricultural offer in a long-delayed global trade round and said the next…
National Bank of Bahrain looking at Egyptian bank
CAIRO: The Central Bank of Egypt has given National Bank of Bahrain clearance to do a due diligence study on Egypt s Delta International Bank, the Egyptian stock exchange said…
Interbank rate falls to 8.27 percent
CAIRO: The median overnight interbank rate on the pound was 8.27 percent on Wednesday, down from Tuesday s 8.283 percent although demand for funds to invest at a central bank…
Another postmortem
CAIRO: Speaking earlier at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, William Rhodes, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Citicorp Holdings and Citibank, said that the ongoing volatility…
CORRECTION
In the May 24 edition of the newspaper, story entitled "Mubarak lashes out at press over coverage of protests, The Associated Press erroneously attributed critical comments in a newspaper editorial…