Road Safety Rules
CAIRO: Driver education is limited to family drivers or well-meaning uncles or near-hysterical parents. Few of those who run off to get their driver's licenses have any idea of what…
Cultivating the food industry
CAIRO: Non-dairy processed food was a LE 3 billion industry last year, with most of this production coming in the form of jams, concentrates, pickles, sugar, sauces and frozen and…
Second Egyptian dies of bird flu
CAIRO: A second Egyptian has died from the bird flu virus, Health Minister Hatem El-Gabali said on Monday. An official from the World Health Organization (WHO) told Reuters the latest…
Egypt threatens to sue U.S. museum over ancient mask
CAIRO: Egypt threatened Tuesday to take legal action against a U.S. museum unless it returns an ancient mask in its collection that the authorities claim was stolen from a warehouse,…
Smuggling illegal migrants in Slovakia
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia: Two men from Ukraine have been arrested in Slovakia after they helped to smuggle a group of 25 illegal migrants, believed to be Egyptians, over the Slovak border,…
Gamal Mubarak strides more into the public's eye
CAIRO: Gamal Mubarak, son of Egypt s president and one of the country's most influential politicians, took a stride further into the public eye this week, presenting himself as a…
Kefaya sees continued stifling of freedoms under anti-terrorism law
CAIRO: As the 25 year-old emergency laws are planning to be lifted by the government, opposition groups, especially Kefaya, have expressed their hesitancy in support such an action. They argue…
Laying the technological base for development
CAIRO: Egypt's national plan to build and develop the petrochemical industry in the country recently registered a hit with the start of a $1 billion investment for two large petrochemical…
True authenticity in Aswan
CAIRO: "The city of radiance and luminosity, history, nature, purity and beauty, says Farghali Abdel Hafiz, his eyes lighting up as he describes the ancient city of Aswan, in the…
UN launches program seeking to aid human development
CAIRO: In keeping with this year s United Nations Human Development Report and the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations network launched the UN Development Assistant Framework (UNDAF) in partnership…