Latest in Tag: Daily News Egypt Highlight
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Revenue of dollar bonds sold by Egypt is convenient: Analysts
Covering bonds worth $1.5bn was raised by Egypt in foreign markets three times

New Cairo prison opens to reduce crowding inside detention facilities
The 15th of May Prison was recently constructed to improve health conditions inside prisons

Real estate tax crisis ongoing between banks, finance ministry
Mediation fails between the banking sector and the government over obliging banks to pay tax on defaultersâ real estate

NBE donated EGP 930m in last 5 years: Hisham Okasha
National Bank of Egypt offered EGP 210m to develop slums and fight poverty

CBE to investigate future of interest rates
The market expects MPC to fix both loan and deposit rates
Al-Zawahiri trial resumes without Egyptâs oldest political prisoner
Nabil Al-Maghraby died last Friday at 71 after being hospitalised following cancer diagnosis

Hungary expresses support for Egypt
President Al-Sisi met Hungarian prime minister and head of parliament following visit to Germany

Lawyers strike Saturday, syndicate head seeks escalation against police assaults
Security body only protects itself and bullies lawyers and citizens, says syndicate

Cairo court cancels Hamas âterroristâ designation
Hamas considers court’s decision “correction of a previous mistake and will have positive repercussions on the relationship between Egypt and Hamas”

Clear escalation in enforced disappearances: Activists
Security forces in campaign of disappearances, arrests against people of all political leanings after 6 April calls for general strike and Arab Sharkas executions

Conference discusses cloud computing with MENA region companiesâ CEOs
Extensive talks and workshops to reach a solution for the problems faced in the field

Egyptian girls fight taboos through music
âWe did not only tell our stories, we also shared our friendsâ stories, whether females or males,â says one participant

Lawyers to strike against police brutality
Police officer hit lawyer on the head with a shoe causing head injury, syndicate calls for strike
Marie Louis: Industrial institute and a whole fashion world
Marie Louis shines in the summer 2015 collection with 100% Egyptian products

Barcelona, Arsenal, PSG, VfL Wolfsburg champions of the cup
Weekend saw national cup finals in Germany, Spain, France and England

Legends compete with the start of the Roland Garros
World number one player, Serbiaâs Novak Djokovic, dreams of robbing Nadal of the title for the first time ever, after losing to the Spaniard last year in the final game with score of 6-3, 5-7, 2-6, 4-6.

FIFA U-20 World Cup begins in New Zealand
A total of 24 teams qualified from six continents are competing for the title. For Africa, Senegal, Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria qualified to the tournament after they reached the semi-finals of African U-20 Championship that was held in Senegal.

Homosexualsâ ongoing acceptance struggle increases as government crackdown tightened
Over 95 people were arrested in Egypt for same-sex conduct or gender expression between July 2013 and December 2014, says HRW
EIPR slams state solution to displace Coptic families
Customary sessions have turned into a parallel unfair judiciary, the organisation said

Disagreements still in place, dialogue will continue: Merkel and Al-Sisi
Merkel criticised death sentences in Egypt, Al-Sisi said that Egypt guarantees regionâs stability

Emirates Airline celebrates $913m sukuk listing in NASDAQ Dubai
In 2013, the airline listed $1bn sukuk in NASDAQ Dubai

Petroleum ministry to provide 135m cubic metres of gas daily in summer: EGAS
Approximately 83.5m cubic metres of gas, 24,000 tonnes of fuel oil and 8,000 tonnes of diesel provided daily to power stations

What was behind Standard & Poorâs Positive outlook?
More than three quarters of Egyptian public expenditures are allocated for the wages of 6.5 million public sector workers, different subsidies programmes and debt services.

5% of Egyptâs population suffers from food insecurity: FAO
Political struggle in Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, and Palestine increased spread of food insecurity, says Ould Ahmed

Nile phosphate spill major threat: NSF official
Official from US research foundation outlines dangers, solutions to water threats

USAID to fund SMEs project in Egypt in 6 months: Director of Egypt mission
The agency allocated no less than $150m to fund new enterprises beginning next September, says Carlin

Investments worth EGP 9bn in 59 projects on TDA lands by end of current FY: TDA Chairman
TDAâs activity growth before the end of FY 2014/2015 led to financial surplus of EGP 258m at the Ministry of Finance

Al-Sisi greeted in Germany by storm of criticism
Merkel shaking Al-Sisiâs hand is shaking “the hand that tortures”, says German media, while demonstrations break out

Rights groups concerned of investigations into anti-torture judges
Judges are interrogated under pretence of their participation in workshop organised by âillegalâ organisation to draft anti-torture law

Charter flight stimulation: Suspension or reinforcement
Programme aims to reduce shelter and take-off fees by about 20%-30%, or exempt airplanes from paying them, says Al-Adawy