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HEPCA Launches Hurghada's New Waste Management Scheme
Feb 13, 2011, rating: 0.000, 0 votesThe Hurghada Solid Waste Management Project is HEPCA’s most recent initiative and our most ambitious undertaking to date. -
Egyptian PM: Security is the government's top priority
Feb 13, 2011, rating: 0.000, 0 votesPrime Minister Ahmed Shafiq said restoring security so that normal life can be resumed is the government’s main priority. -
Egypt's military leadership
Feb 12, 2011, rating: 0.000, 0 votesBrief profiles of members of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces as it assumes power from Hosni Mubarak. -
Mubarak steps down, hands power to military
Feb 12, 2011, rating: 0.000, 0 votesOffering an historic annoucement, Vice President Omar Suleiman said President Hosni Mubarak had resigned and given power to the Supreme ... -
Egypt government: Commercial establishments, transportation back to normal
Feb 08, 2011, rating: 0.000, 0 votesIndustrial and commercial establishments began working again on Monday, the Ministry of Trade and Industry has announced, assuring the public ... -
Cairo Museum: Restoration of museum artifacts to be complete in 5 days
Feb 07, 2011, rating: 0.000, 0 votesEgyptian Minister for Antiquities Zahi Hawass said restoration of 70 artifacts damaged at the Egyptian Museum last week will conclude ... -
Egypt: Mubarak meets with ministers
Feb 06, 2011, rating: 0.000, 0 votesPresident Hosni Mubarak met Saturday with the ministers of finance, social solidarity, and petroleum and the Governor of the Central ... -
Cairo's Tahrir Square: From traffic headache to revolutionary icon
Feb 05, 2011, rating: 5.000, 1 votesThousands congregated Friday in Tahrir Square, dubbed Egypt’s “liberated zone" by protesters.Friday marked day 11 of the revolution ... -
Egypt: Journey to a rosy eternity
Jan 27, 2011, rating: 4.000, 1 votesFragile papyrus scrolls known collectively as the Book of the Dead; a glossy hardback entitled Life in Paradise; and archaeologists ... -
Egypt officially requests Nefertiti bust
Jan 26, 2011, rating: 0.000, 0 votesEgypt has submitted an official request to Germany to return a bust of Nefertiti displayed in a Berlin Museum -
Egypt: Police Day Celebration Story
Jan 25, 2011, rating: 5.000, 1 votesToday Egyptians around the country have off from work and school in recognition of a national holiday: Police Day. -
Egypt: Sewage workers find 3 pharaonic coffins
Jan 23, 2011, rating: 0.000, 0 votesWorkers in Abu Yasseen village in Sharqiya Governorate found three pharaonic coffins and other artefacts while digging as part of ... -
Egyptian tourism income increases by 15.8%
Jan 18, 2011, rating: 0.000, 0 votesGovernment statistics from between January and September 2010 show an increase in rates of inbound tourism -
Egypt: A painted burial chamber of the 25th Dynasty priest Karakhamun
Dec 10, 2010, rating: 0.000, 0 votesA painted burial chamber of the 25th Dynasty priest Karakhamun was discovered this week on Luxor's west bank -
Culture Ministry solicits bids for Grand Egypt Museum's final stage
Dec 09, 2010, rating: 0.000, 0 votesThe Ministry of Culture solicited bids on Thursday from four specialized companies that had won an international competition for carrying ... -
Egypt: Picturing a Nile trip
Dec 07, 2010, rating: 0.000, 0 votesEGYPT is located on a major bird migration corridor between Africa and Europe. -
Al Ahly Bank returns 200 Egyptian objects
Dec 05, 2010, rating: 0.000, 0 votesMinister of Culture, Farouk Hosny, announced that the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) received 200 artifacts from Al-Ahly National Bank -
Nile Ambulance circumvents traffic and saves lives in Upper Egypt
Dec 04, 2010, rating: 0.000, 0 votesThe sight of an ambulance navigating the unbearably congested streets of Cairo, strangled between cars while carrying a patient struggling ... -
Luxor's west bank receives another facelift
Dec 03, 2010, rating: 0.000, 0 votesMinister of Culture, Farouk Hosny, announced that the newly installed lighting system on Luxor’s west bank has been completed ... -
Egypt's Red Sea beaches officially closed in wake of shark attacks
Dec 02, 2010, rating: 0.000, 0 votesThe Ministry of Tourism on Wednesday instructed Egypt’s Chamber of Diving and Water Sports (CDWS) to suspend all diving ... -
Cairo: Closed for the night
Dec 01, 2010, rating: 0.000, 0 votesA life-long culture of shopping at night in Cairo may soon change -
Egypt’s lost great lake is finally discovered
Nov 28, 2010, rating: 0.000, 0 votesA dry, sand-covered region of Egypt was home 100,000 years ago to a lake as large as one of ... -
Egypt to Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Cairo Tower
Nov 18, 2010, rating: 5.000, 1 votesEgypt (CAIRO) - Cairo tower which takes the shape of Lotus flower is one of the most prominent landmarks of the ... -
Egypt: Sphinx statues uncovered on Luxor temple road
Nov 17, 2010, rating: 0.000, 0 votesTwelve sphinx statues have been found near the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni has announced.
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National Coalition on Climate Change for Egypt is born
Nov 30, 2012, rating: 5.000, 1 votesThe global COP18 conference on climate change opens in Doha Monday.About 17,000 participants from all over the world ... -
Judgment for sexual harassment
Nov 14, 2012, rating: 3.600, 5 votesA man was sentenced to two years in prison and fined LE 2,000 for sexually harassing a woman, an ... -
Scientists are enthusiastic about hydrogen's green applications
Nov 13, 2012, rating: 4.000, 3 votesAs fossil fuel reserves decrease, many countries are turning to hydrogen as one of the main sources of alternative energy ...
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Childhood delight in Ramadan show "Fawazeer Ramadan"
Aug 03, 2012, rating: 3.000, 2 votesThe 1981 jingle for “Fawazeer Ramadan,” a classic television riddleshow, goes: “The matchmaker of the old times always has much ... -
Morsy takes presidential oath in Tahrir.
Jun 29, 2012, rating: 5.000, 2 votesMohamed Morsy took the presidential oath in Tahrir Square on Friday,standing before a crowd of thousands of protesters who ... -
Morsy starts consultations over presidential team and Cabinet.
Jun 25, 2012, rating: 5.000, 1 votesPresident-elect Mohamed Morsy moved into the office once occupied byousted leader Hosni Mubarak and started consultations Monday over theformation of ...