Latest in Tag: Daily News Egypt Highlight
Latest in Tag: Daily News Egypt

Libyan PM in Cairo for security talks
Ibrahim Mehleb will meet Abdullah Al-Thinni to discuss developments in the Libyan crisis
Al-Sisi receives Indian Special Envoy
Indian representative invited President Al-Sisi to the ‘India-Africa Forum Summit’ in October

âHerafyâ: A mobile app digitalising labour in New Cairo and 6th of October City
Design features 12 categories including electricians, plumbers, tailors, mechanics, carpenters, and painters, amongst others, says Mowafy
328 illegal immigrants caught trying to enter Libya
Despite spike in attacks against Egyptians, many continue to cross Libyan border

Ramadan keeps on giving with Rotary clubs, Nebny Foundation
The packing event began at 8pm, with 50 people having shown up 20 minutes later. A couple of hours into the packing, and around 100 volunteers had gathered to join the event – 30 more volunteers than last yearâs event.
Anti-terror draft law is âunofficial state of emergencyâ: Civil societies
“Vague definitions in law leads to non-differentiation between terrorists and non-terrorists and broad crackdown,” says NGOs joint statement

The âSidi Gaber clashesâ: An anniversary of violence
Two years after the deadly clashes, Daily News Egypt reviews the incident and its implications
5 injured in Beheira bombing
Policemen injured in separate shooting in Sharqeya

Negm, TE dispute settles unified licence file
It started with the TE administrationâs objections to the reduction of the infrastructure rental rate for Internet service providers.
Exits of foreign investments decrease by 12% in Q1 of 2015
European Union investments in Egypt in Q1 of 2015 reached $2.03bn, compared to $1.6bn in Q1 2014
Government defends anti-terror law, Press Syndicate protests
Law allows journalistsâ imprisonment, shutting down of websites and other media restrictions, say NGOs

E-Finance collects EGP 130bn in taxes for Finance Ministry: CEO
80% of value was through activating Egyptian Customs Authorityâs tax collection system, says Ibrahim Sarhan
Metropolitan Consulting forms strategic partnership with Al-Bluwi Saudi group
Coordination to work in the fields of financial and credit consultancy and developing small and medium enterprises
French student arrested, deported from Egypt for researching 6 April
âThey knew who I was and what I was doing long before the arrest,â says student

EGPC, Rosneft sign agreement for oil products, LNG shipments
Minister of Petroleum Sherif Ismail said that signing the two agreements is a mutual cooperation between public companies in Egypt and Russia.
Ministry of Communicationsâ intervention to resolve TE crisis is legal: Negm
By Mohamed Alaa El-Din Minister of Communications Khaled Negm said his ministry’s intervention to resolve Telecom Egypt’s (TE) recent crisis is not against the law. He added, in a statement to the Daily News Egypt, that the government owns 80% of the company’s shares, which allows it to intervene in order to redirect the company’s path. …

Agriculture Ministry suspends cotton imports starting July
The step was taken targeting the protection of locally produced cotton.
Egypt’s debts to Paris Club decrease 18%
Egypt repaid $670m to Paris Club in July, another payment of same amount is expected to follow in January
Dim international and domestic news pushes EGX down
EFG-Hermes unlikely to use stabilisation fund to support Emaar Misrâs stock in next 30 days, an official said
Al-Masriya journalistâs detention renewed
Fears stoked as government plans to issue anti-terrorism law

CBE stabilises dollar price after 2 increases
Dollar will increase again, and the stable price is temporary, analysts say

âThe Republican Guardâ incident: Ambiguity remains 2 years later
The sit-in was to protest the military ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi on 3 July 2013.

Al-Sisi meets AJC delegation to discuss countering terrorism
The president met with the delegation on Monday, followed by meeting with PM Mehleb on Tuesday
4G licence proposal opportunity for TE to become integrated operator
TEâs acquisition of licence means giving up EGP 20bn, revenues of next five years, says official
TE releases financial results, revenues increase
The company stated it achieved 9.9% profit growth over Q1 of 2015, compared to last year
Egyptian kidnapped in Libya
Thousands of Egyptian migrants have returned to Egypt, though most remain in Libya

Holy month unleashes hail of donation campaigns
Commercials playing on smart metaphors, interactivity and abused children

Are Ramadan charity campaigns backfiring?
The campaigns that ask people to donate to cancer patients feature them as people who do nothing with their lives but wait for death.

FIFA’s Blatter unwittingly pinpoints football governance’s prime issues
By James M. Dorsey Embattled FIFA president Sepp Blatter unwittingly put his finger on two fundamental issues that underlie a corruption scandal that has rocked world football governance, the worst crisis in the sport’s history: the fiction that sports and politics are separate and hypocrisy that distorts legitimate debate about Qatar’s successful but controversial World …

No reconciliation sessions between EATC parties, final word is for the court: Ezz Eldin
Poor performance and financial manipulation are most notable issues affecting EATC