Consumer Protection emphasise maintaining mineral water prices
Demand for mineral water has increased since the spillage of 500 tonnes of phosphate in the river Nile last week, causing a fear of poisoning through the water supply.
Morsi’s trial ‘badly flawed’: HRW
Prosecutors’ neglect of the deaths of Brotherhood supporters and disregard of security forces’ failure to intervene undermines justice, says watchdog
Street vendors removed from Ramsis Square
Eyewitness cited struggle between vendors and security forces
Describing dictatorship in novel form
New novel “The Masters” and Orwell’s classic “Animal Farm” feature process of making a dictator and rebelling against it
The poor against Piketty
By Hernando de Soto Thomas Piketty’s, Capital in the 21st Century, has attracted worldwide attention, not because he crusades against inequality – many of us do that – but because of…
Notes from America: The world is run by ‘generals’
By Ahmed Tharwat Harry S. Truman once said: “The 'C' students run the world.” That was a long time ago, and now the world is run by “Generals” - still…
Connecting the dots of the Middle East: Restoring Egypt’s stature in the region
By Ramy Oraby A few days after the Arab League Summit in Egypt, Saudi Arabian long standing Foreign Minister Saud El-Faisal directly accused Iran of backing “Houthis militias and Saleh”…
IDBE targets SME loan portfolio increase to EGP 1bn by end of 2015: Executive Board Member
Industrial Development and Workers Bank of Egypt aims to increase customers to 233% within expansion plans for small and medium loans
$6bn in Gulf deposits temporarily eases Egypt’s economic burdens
Analysts say GCC deposits beef-up foreign reserves and boost local currency