CAIRO: Following over one year since the presidential decree to develop the entire district of North Giza in May 2007, the plans continue to trigger controversy due to the lack of information about the project.
The district of North Giza includes (...)
CAIRO: Referring to world reports and a warning by the British embassy about sexual harassment, Member of Parliament Mohsen Radi issued an "urgent call to the Minister of Tourism before the People's Assembly's (PA) annual break, with a list of (...)
CAIRO: The Secular Coptic Front re-shifted its focus from the controversial issue of church reform to citizenship in its third annual conference last week, in a move signaling the group's belief in the role of citizenship in fostering the welfare of (...)
CAIRO: After a two-day sit-in, workers of Ghazl Al Mahalla Company threatened to take their strikes to the streets if their demands were not met within five days, the spokesperson of the December 7th Movement of Ghazl Al Mahalla workers, Mohamed Al (...)
CAIRO: Several officials refuted claims by Ghazl Al Mahalla workers that both sides would meet to discuss the still-unanswered workers demands.
Leaders of Ghazl Al Mahalla workers' movement announced plans to meet officials from the ministry, the (...)
El MAHALLA EL KOBRA: The Ghazl El Mahalla Hospital administration has denied accusations that anesthesia related to surgery at the hospital caused patients to have serious health repercussions.
Several patients claim that an anesthesia doctor at (...)
CAIRO: Out of 177 states, Egypt ranks 36 in the failed states index compiled by The Fund for Peace (FfP), an independent educational, research, and advocacy organization based in Washington, DC and published in the July/August issue of Foreign (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian National Railways (ENR) has enforced a 15 percent increase in ticket prices for air-conditioned first- and second-class train passengers to develop the railways amid public discontent over the raise and the deteriorating level of (...)
MAHALLA Al KOBRA/CAIRO: Healthcare tops the list of demands put forward by the Ghazl El Mahalla textile factory workers. While they wait for the fulfillment of salary raise promises, the question arises about their responsibility in the (...)
EL BEHEIRA: Around 100 Iraqis are currently receiving training at the American University in Cairo's Desert Development Center (DDC) in Beheira.
For three weeks, subject to extension, a group of professors from five American Universities - Texas (...)
AL MAHALLA AL KOBRA, Cairo: Ghazl Al Mahalla workers cancelled plans for an open-ended strike beginning July 21 after the union met 85 percent of their demands, Mohammed Al Attar, spokesperson of the December 7 Movement of Ghazl Al Mahhalla Workers (...)
CAIRO: Dr Hamdy El-Sayed, head of the PA's Health Committee and chairman of the Doctors Syndicate called for allowing conjugal visits for prisoners at a lecture organized by the Syndicate on Saturday.
The move should lower the percentage of (...)
CAIRO: Would a fatwa by the highest religious authority and a ministerial decree be enough to reduce, let alone stop, the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)?
In a county where, according to national and international organizations, 96 (...)
CAIRO: The administrative court adjourned till Sept. 27 the case against the Cairo governor and the head of Helwan district demanding the reopening of the Center for Trade Union and Worker Services, Egypt's largest independent labor rights (...)
CAIRO: More than 10,000 workers in Ghazl Al Mahala Company have renewed their sit-in last Sunday for half an hour and threatened to escalate the protest to an open scale strike on July 21, Mahmoud Al Attar, an activist in workers movement organizing (...)
CAIRO: Egypt will need $350 million to fight bird flu, according to Minister of Health Hatem El Gabaly.
The minister made the announcement on Sunday at a press conference following the signing of a US-Egyptian agreement to donate $24 (...)
When Ahmed Darwish, Minister of State for Administrative Development, indicated to Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper on May 27 that he intended to cancel the two-year obligatory residency of Egyptian medical school graduates known "taklif, he set in motion (...)
CAIRO: The Annual World Dental Congress to be held in Dubai next October invited members of the Egyptian dental community to attend a press conference on June 24.
Egypt is a very important station in the Arab world . this is the first time FDI (...)
CAIRO: In the wake of the thirty-seventh bird flu case in humans diagnosed in Egypt, the US government has pledged $24 million to help the country fight the deadly virus, the official spokesperson of the Egyptian Ministry of Health, Dr Abd Al Rahman (...)
CAIRO: The Kasr El Aini School of medicine at Cairo University launched the first specialized unit for fetal medicine in Egypt, Cairo Fetal Medicine (CAIFM).
The unit aims to treat pregnant mothers, educating them about their pregnancy and (...)