Alcotexa sells 951 T cotton in past week
By Mohamed Samir / Reuters CAIRO: Egypt's Alexandria Cotton Exporters' Association (Alcotexa) committed to sell 951 tons of cotton in the week that ended on April 14, an Alcotexa official…
R&M launches new incentivized partnership program in Egypt
DUBAI: Reichle & De-Massari (R&M), the Swiss structured cabling specialist, announced the introduction of a new partnership program in Egypt which is specifically designed to enhance partners' technical proficiency in…
INTERVIEW: Turkish tourism feels ripples of Arab Spring
By Lin Noueihed / Reuters DJERBA: Thirteen months of unrest in Syria have hurt tourism in neighboring Turkey, which expects visitor numbers to remain stable in 2012 at more than…
Algeria’s frosty business climate may thaw
By Christian Lowe and Lamine Chikhi / Reuters ALGIERS: After a three-year campaign against one of its biggest foreign investors chilled Algeria's business climate, the country is sending out tentative…
Egyptian designers approach spring and summer with prints
By Heba Elkayal After the sour, confused mood of late, young Egyptian businesses and brands are flourishing, giving a clear statement that regardless of all ongoing political and economical turmoil,…
Egypt to offer LE 2.5 bln in reopened bonds
By Mohamed Samir / Reuters CAIRO: Egypt's Ministry of Finance will offer LE 2.5 billion ($414.1 million) in reopened bonds at an auction on April 23, the central bank said…
SODIC swings to 2011 net loss
Ehab Farouk and Tom Pfeiffer / Reuters CAIRO: Egyptian real estate developer SODIC said on Tuesday it fell to a net loss last year, when the industry was thrown into…
Fans recall American artist Jackson Pollock at 100
By Frank Eltman / AP Out behind a small farmhouse on a Long Island country road sits an old gray barn where a tormented artist dripped paint off brushes, sticks…
Turkey PM accuses Damascus of holding two journalists
By AFP ANKARA: Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday called on the Damascus regime to account for the fate of two Turkish journalists missing in neighboring Syria since March.…
Palestinians begin mass hunger strike on Prisoners’ Day
By AFP RAMALLAH: At least 1,200 Palestinian inmates of Israeli jails began an open-ended hunger strike on Tuesday as rallies across the occupied territories marked Prisoners' Day. As thousands gathered…