Lieutenant Magdy Hegazy, governor of Aswan, said that building a new Egypt will not happen without the required effort and investments. The Elite Real Estate Exhibition (EREEX) is considered to be one of the most promising initiatives for (...)
The parliament's Housing Committee will discuss a report issued by the Accountability State Authority (ASA) regarding land issues next week, according to Mohammed Abdel Ghani, a member of the committee.
Abdel Ghani told Daily News Egypt that the (...)
During the Elite Real Estate Exhibition 2016 (EREEX), sales manager of Azmeel Group for Real Estate, Mohammed Mustafa, said that the company has available housing units worth EGP 100m in Fifth Settlement in New Cairo, as well as units worth EGP 500m (...)
In the wake of the fire that destroyed much of the manuscript collection at the Institut d'Egypte on Friday, scores of pro-democracy protesters have told of their efforts to salvage books and other rare documents from the smoking ruins.
The (...)
With two bouquets of flowers and a red carpet, the funeral of Ahmed al-Hawan, known as Gomaa al-Shawan, a former Egyptian intelligence agent, took place on Wednesday at a mosque near the service's headquarters in Cairo's Hadaeq al-Qobba (...)
The New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA), affiliated with the Housing Ministry, requested its branches provide information about any properties owned by seven leaders of the 6 April Movement.
The leaders are Ahmed Maher, Asma Mahfouz, Mohamed (...)
Abu Salim Prison, once Libya's most famous prison, has been abandoned since Tripoli fell to anti-regime rebels. Citizens have managed to free its political prisoners.
Al-Masry Al-Youm reporters toured the notorious facility, accompanied by a former (...)
Protesters in Suez on Monday threatened to block the Ahmed Hamdy tunnel that leads to the Sinai if the military council failed to speed up trials of police officers accused of killing demonstrators during the 25 January revolution.
“We can also (...)
Relatives of the martyrs who were killed during the 25 January revolution continued their sit-in for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday outside of the Suez Security Directorate and the governorate building in Arbaeen Square. The protesters are (...)
The families of Egyptians detained in Libya demonstrated before the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday, demanding that officials intervene with the Libyan authorities to release their relatives and bring them back home.
The demonstrators tried to break the (...)
About 60 family members of Egyptians being detained in Libya forced their way into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday morning, demanding authorities help release their family members.
Staging a sit-in on the ministry's yard, the protesters (...)
A government official revealed that the creation of a new anti-terrorism law has been called off indefinitely.The source added that the government views the 29-year-old Emergency Law as sufficient for combating terrorism.
The official told Al-Masry (...)
A street peddler and his wife were killed on Thursday after their two-story home collapsed in Sohag as a result of heavy rains, which also caused another house to collapse in the nearby Al-Usayrat Township. Authorities have vowed to investigate the (...)
Dozens of Sudanese human rights activists staged demonstrations in front of the Sudanese embassy in Cairo on Thursday to protest the scheduled flogging of a young Sudanese woman for wearing indecent clothes.
Protesters demanded the abolition of the (...)
President of Egypt's Central Agency for Reconstruction Mahmoud Meghawri announced that the first phase of the government's Geographical Targeting of Poverty Initiative would be complete as of 30 June, 2011.
Meghawri told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the (...)
Tourists traveling along Cairo's ring road on their way to the ancient Sakara complex this week were dismayed to find the road covered in piles of garbage.
Ironically, the famous pyramids of Giza--collectively considered one of the world's seven (...)
Minister of State for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Mofid Shehab criticized those forecasting chaos in Egypt and dismissed the predictions as erroneous.
“Such people do not tell the truth, and have an undeclared reason for not doing so,” said (...)
The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) will announce its nominee for next year's presidential elections in July of 2011--only two months before the vote--according to Minister for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Mufid Shehab.
In statements to a (...)
An multitude of congested domes, 25 kilometers south of Aswan at Wadi Qurqur, represent the beginning of a government plan to relocate around 1,000 Nubian families forced to evacuate their homes during construction of the High Dam in the 1960s. The (...)
The Ministry of Transport authorized construction of 4 new river ports along the Nile, after modifying "specifications" for such ports. The new ports will be tendered to investors later this year.
The Nile River system is around 1600 km long and is (...)
Cairo needs some 24,000 hotel rooms in addition to the existing 36,000 rooms in order to accommodate international events, according to Urban Planning Director Mustafa Madbouly.
“We have taken this into consideration in our long-term plan until (...)
Weather experts predict that temperatures will rise to 38°C today, and reach 39°C on Monday. The temperature for Tuesday is expected to drop to 36°C.
The media advisor for the Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA), Ali Qutb, attributed the rise in (...)
The Ministry of Education will downsize its budget for printing school books this year, according to a senior ministry source. A number of syllabus and activity books were merged in order to reduce the printing cost from LE1.32 billion to LE950 (...)
In a speech before the Al-Ahram International Conference for Real Estate Investment, Housing Minister Ahmed el-Maghraby on Wednesday said that real estate investment in Egypt rose 14 percent in the 2007/2008 fiscal year and 16 percent in the (...)
Urban Planning Authority Director Mostafa Metwally said that the consulting office that won the contest to turn downtown Cairo into a pedestrian zone would complete its design in one year's time at the most, as the authority requested certain (...)