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Egypt's VAT bill to be finalised next week, MPs sticking to 12pct rate
The VAT bill delay was attributed to its controversial rate of 14 percent
Mariam Mecky , Thursday 18 Aug 2016
Egypt's...
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All I see when this hits the streets ...are seeds being sown on the streets of Egypt...
I was trying to think of something clever to say about the bango in The Red Sea, completely forgetting that I...
Egyptian judo fighter refuses to shake Israeli opponent's hand
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Egyptian judo fighter Islam El Shehaby was loudly booed at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after his first-round loss to...
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I would feel uneasy competing against ANY Russian competitor, in any sport, in the Olympics given the country's aptitude for state-sponsored cheating by use of drugs.
MINIMUM CHARGE NOW ILLEGAL IN EGYPT?
09/08/2016 12:49
According to the Consumer Protection Agency, we may have been paying minimum charge fees where they *legally* don't apply.
Egyptians may no...
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Major-General Atef Yacoub must have done something really dreadful to have been retired into THAT post :lol:
Maybe they should hand out a synopsis of the main consumer protection regulations to all...
Doctors Syndicate asks prosecution, Interior Ministry to reveal fate of missing doctor in Luxor.
The Doctors Syndicate called on prosecutor general Nabil Sadek and Interior Minister Magdy Abdel...
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However, having been in hospital in Luxor and seeing how the relatives set up home, ignore rules and regulations, and don't let the nurses and doctors do their jobs I can see why they try to keep so...
:lol: Not what you're thinking, but rather an asteroid of the same name that could possibly impact the Earth at some point in time, mind you I didn't realise she was that old :o 4.5 billion years!...
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There's a marked difference in ''bumping'' into someone against flattening the whole planets population. So, old lonesome me again in BENNU's case. But its good, if you need to go out, to go out with...
An Emirates airlines Boeing 777 coming from India has crash landed at Dubai airport, fortunately all 275 passengers and crew are OK. Watching the film footage the plane appears to be resting on it’s...
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I saw a news clip that said that all passengers and crew were evacuated safely, although many were treated for shock. Sadly, one of the fire fighters had died whilst trying to put out the flames....
That man Putin certainly has some chutzpah....whingeing for all his worth about some Russians being excluded from Rio Olympics. If it wasn't for the spineless IOC, they'd ALL be banned.
The other...
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Now I'm hurt Hafiz! (Well...not really :P )
As if anyone needs to be weaned off the press in Egypt (let alone the govt. mouthpiece El Ahram).
And I take exception to the inference that I can't...
An American newspaper says that Luxor is experiencing a tourism ‘boomlet’. Their source is the General Manager of the airport and their evidence is the increase in international flights:
“The...
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Nothing wrong with a few food medals on your chest :lol:
it has just been announced that Turkey has temporarily suspended its Human Rights Agreement. Is this the start of a Police/Military run Country, governed by oppression? And still European Holiday...
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The problem I foresee in Turkey is that people will get executed for crimes that do not carry the death penalty, or they will just disappear never to be seen again, until their bones are dug up by...
Egypt's value added tax set at 14pct, to be discussed in parliament.
The rate of Egypt’s long-delayed Value-added tax (VAT) has been set at 14 percent instead of the previous rate of 10 percent as...
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By not announcing it publicly it thought it will reflect the increase and the cost will not fall back on Parliament. Like a UK MP once said, Nothing to do with me it's noticeable however that people...
A court in Upper Egypt on Tuesday handed down jail terms to six policemen after convicting them of torturing a detainee to death in the country’s latest crackdown on abusive police personnel, legal...
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Did anyone else see the documentary on BBC world earlier about deaths of conscripts in egypt? It was on about half eleven egypt time. It was quite sad. A family from the west bank in luxor was on...
In case you have not already heard the news, Andrea Leadsom has withdrawn, Teresa May will be next UK PM.
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I reckon she is the perfect choice :up she will unite a fractured Tory party and as a someone who was barely in the remain camp I think she will get very wide support. She has already stated that...
More than 70,000 migrants have travelled from Egypt and Libya to Italy so far this year, but now the North African country is threatening to do nothing to stem the flow – prompting fears countless...
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All the EU need to do to stop the influx is to blow up a few boats. OK people will die but in the long run it will stop more drowning when their overcrowded boats sink in bad weather.
Latest news is that Mr Tusk of the EU has said he does not want to meet with Nicola Sturgeon as it is not the right time . That will take some of the bluster out of her sails as she was preparing to...
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All the vibes that I am getting is that she may not get the same support a second time around if she goes for the independence vote again. I think that the oil price shock and how that may have had a...
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