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Government to address obstacles facing entrepreneurship, SMEs: Mehleb
Bank branches in Upper Egypt and Nile Delta to facilitate funding for small and medium-sized companies, says CBE governor
GE shows willingness to participate in renewable energy plants: Cabinet
Ongoing consultations with international energy partners in the US and China to take advantage of expertise in power generation, says electricity minister

Government to launch 4-year investment, development programme at Economic Summit: Mehleb
New investment law gives legal authority to GAFI to approve and facilitate project implementation, bankruptcy law ensures a safe exit for investors, says prime minister

Government begins accelerating implementation of National Roads Project: Cabinet
National Roads Project requires EGP 6bn to be finished next September, banks must participate in financing, says Contractors Union

Government decides on support for textile workers, adopts industry as national project
Prime minister appoints ministers of industry and agriculture and âEgyptian Chamber of Textile Industries to agree on cotton cultivation policy

Mehleb witnesses signing of pollution control funding agreement worth âŹ70m: Cabinet
Project to provide technical and financial support to industrial facilities in line with environmental laws for pollution reduction

Ministry of Tourism finalises studies for March economic summit: Chairman of TDA
Tourism Development Authority projects hope to attract investments worth EGP 5bn

Government studies allow new cement factories to be established: Prime Minister
Government Economic Group discussion takes legal and economic dimensions into account in expanding cement production
Northwest Coast Development Project
The Northwest Coast Development Project is among the vast developmental and multidimensional projects currently run by the government, according to a statement made by Minister of Tourism, Hisham Zaazou. Zaazou said that the project will serve both tourism and agricultural purposes in the northwest coast hinterlands, increasing population density in the Delta through big environmental …

Economic Summit to be held from 13-15 March in Sharm El-Sheikh
Finance minister says deadline for parliamentary elections has not yet been determined and government steadily approaches completion of roadmap

EGP 8bn to develop road network: Transportation minister
Ministry plans to expand road network to limit accidents and accommodate traffic
Egypt Kuwait Holding announces gas field purchase north of Suez
Prime minister says government is working to remove obstacles for investors and create safe environment for profits

Mehleb updated on UN human rights review
Minister praises Egypt delegationâs performance at UN UPR despite 300 recommendations

Mehleb meets Saudi, Emirati ministers to prepare for Egypt economic summit
Government exerting âimmenseâ efforts to establish standards for investors, accelerating licence issuance, enforcing contracts, and resolving disputes, says cabinet

Egypt begins transformation into global logistics centre for grain handling: Prime minister
Mehleb says the project is as important as the Suez Canal expansion

Cabinet reassures press syndicate involvement in drafting laws
Press Syndicate called for Prime Minister to refrain from forming committee to draft press legislations

Mehleb forms parliamentary election districts committee
The law for election districts is to be final

Activist Doumaâs trial postponed
Political activist remains in prison despite request for hospitalisation

Parliamentary elections to take place by end of the year: Mehleb
Amending the Protest Law has not been broached in cabinet meetings, says Prime Minister
Al-Tayar Al-Shaâaby rejects putting disability council under supervision of social solidarity ministry
Political group displeased with minister of social solidarity’s “insult” of disability council head

Mehleb puts Disability Council under social solidarity ministry’s supervision
Government does not care about the disabled: NCDA former head

FDI doubles to $6bn in 2013/2014
New figures indicate good economic and investment situation in Egypt alongside increased number of companies established
Perpetrator of store fires in Shubra arrested
Crime was an act of revenge by one of the store tenants, investigations indicate

Government allows private sector participation in renewable energy production: Electricity minister
Ministry of electricity seeks to address the electricity crisis by diversifying production sources to include solar and wind energy

Slum growth, electricity and water shortages are âenemiesâ to fight: PM
Government counts on Suez Canal, Golden Triangle, and northwestern Sahel projects to reduce unemployment rates
Overdue petroleum debts behind increasing power outages: Egyptera director
New electricity stations will join the national grid to reduce power cuts, says minister of electricity
Egypt drafting law to protect facilities, criminalises attacks on water and electricity: PM
Government drafts document obliging Toshka development companies to finish within 3 years or face land withdrawal

Rations manipulated, those involved must be punished: Mehleb
Prime minister demands housing minister withdraw business from contracting companies violating project implementation terms

World Bank agrees to $500m Egypt loan for home gas delivery: Mehleb
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb held talks with World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on how to use bankâs financing for development projects in Egypt

Egyptâs economic reform plans âsucceedingâ: Kerry
Mehleb and the US Secretary of State hold talks over Egyptâs economy, Gaza ceasefire