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Egyptian Stocks: Telecom Egypt and Alexandria Portland Cement
Egypt’s benchmark EGX 30 Index (EGX30) rose 1.3 percent to 3,670.02 at 11:36 a.m. in Cairo, the highest intraday level in a week.
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Is Troubled Egypt Ripe Enough For Eco-Tourism?
A new eco-village in Upper Egypt raises hopes that the country may move in a more sustainable tourism direction.
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Egyptian delegation to visit Iraq to increase joint trade exchange
Egypt's Prime Minister, Kamal al-Janzoury, had assigned 7 of his cabinet ministers, involved in economic affairs to visit Iraq next week.
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Ninth Egyptian medical team in Addis Ababa
The Egyptian Embassy in Ethiopia said that the ninth Egyptian medical convoy has arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on December 26, 2011.
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Egypt to cut energy subsidies for heavy industry
Egypt's government will increase natural gas and electricity prices paid by heavy industries by 33% this month to narrow its growing budget deficit.
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Jordan urges Egypt to protect gas pipeline
Jordan has urged Egypt to protect gas supplies feeding the energy-poor kingdom & Israel after saboteurs attacked a Sinai pipeline 10 times last year.
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Demand for unskilled Egyptian labour rises, highly educated labour falls in 2011
The index for unskilled Egyptian labour increased 6.2 per cent in November 2011 compared to last year, according to labour market report.
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Egypt’s Red Sea Sharks Face Extinction
Since political uprising, poachers supplying restaurants with illicit shark fins have driven the Red Sea shark population down by as much as 80%.
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Bankruptcies up by 26 percent, says cabinet
In 2011, bankruptcies increased by 26 percent in comparison to the year before, according to a report released by the cabinet on Sunday.
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Kuwait's NUKS signs protocol with Kuwait Airways in Cairo
Kuwait Airways Company (KAC) and the National Union of Kuwait Students (NUKS)/ Cairo Branch, signed Sunday a cooperation protocol.
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Egypt Agreed to Export 2,072 Metric Tons of Cotton Last Week
Egypt agreed to export 2,072 metric tons of cotton in the week-ended Dec. 29, the Alex. Cotton Exporters Association said in its weekly bulletin.
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International community expresses alarm after raids on NGOs in Egypt
The international community expressed alarm on Friday and Saturday after 17 non-governmental organizations were raided by Egyptian authorities.
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Hotel occupancy down in Cairo and Sharm el-Sheikh
Hotel occupancy in Cairo dropped to 40 percent, a 25% decrease from 2010. The rate in Sharm al-Sheikh went down to 58%, a drop of 20% from 2010.
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Education Program Gets Ready for Cairo Pilot
For about 10 days in December, Frank Schulenburg, Moushira Elamrawy, and I met with various professors, students, and local Wikipedians in Cairo.
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Egypt believes tourism can recover in 2012
Egypt’s Tourism Minister Munir Abdel Nour is confident that 2012 can be a return to the tourism boom.
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Egypt and Sudan Agree on Water Resources Development Project in Rwanda
Dr. Hisham Gandil said, in a statement, that they discussed the management of water resources in both countries.
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Macroeconomic indicators - Moody's downgrades Egypt bond ratings to B2
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded Egypt's government bond ratings by one notch to B2 from B1.
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Tourism held hostage in Egypt
The revolution has touched the lives of Egyptians working in various industries. Al-Ahram Weekly listens to some personal accounts.
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A popular uprising in smartphone applications
In this year of unprecedented protests across the Middle East and North Africa, new technology has also played an important role mobilizing people.
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Cyprus discovers gas at sea. Turkey and Egypt step forward
The U.S. Company Nobel Energy has found a deposit of five thousand to eight thousand billion cubic meters southeast of the island.