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Ministry of Housing plans to establish 25 new cities, attracting EGP 100bn in investments.
The Egyptian housing sector is set to attract sizable investments from Gulf and Egyptian investors in the...
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Habu City (by Medinet Habu temple) is one of the smallest cities that I know! It has a mosque so I suppose that might qualify it as a village rather than a hamlet. :o :o :o
Egypt’s poverty rate has increased, reaching 26.3 per cent for the year 2012/13 compared with 25.2 percent in 2010/11, the state-run statistics agency CAPMAS reported on Wednesday.
A CAPMAS report...
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Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics is CAPMAS. You can see why it uses its acronym. People might laugh at its Stalinist and Russian full title. It was established by that...
From information I am getting from a few places in Upper Egypt, it appear that the old dreaded Mabahith Am ad-Dowla is showing its face again, even by those, who the locals thought they would never,...
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My European neighbours have all had visits, but all I've received is a nod, but no wink as they knock at my door asking if so and so lives here. Must be saving me until last. :up The questions are...
A female giraffe at the Giza Zoo ago choked herself to death on Wednesday afternoon.
According to the zoo's official Facebook page, the giraffe suffocated after accidentally wrapping a food wire...
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A giraffe committing suicide? Its like saying Mubarak only stepped down cos he had a better job offer. Only in Egypt could officials here formulate such examples of their pomposity.
The Egyptian pound strengthened at an official auction on Monday and gained from late last week on the black market, although it remained weaker there.
Past Preservers is proud to announce the Nazla Pottery Village, an initiative with the hopes of rebooting cultural tourism in Egypt through sustainable tourism and representation of ancient...
Egypt's first protest to gain authorisation under a new protest law, held Wednesday in central Cairo, went smoothly with no clashes between police and protesters but with intermittent disputes...
Train traffic resumed on today (Saturday) between Cairo and Upper Egypt for the first time since 14 August, which was suspended following dispersal of the...
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I will await news of the first train's arrival in Luxor/Aswan.
I did a bit of shopping at Kheir Zaman supermarket last night, I paid my shopping bill and the cashier handed me my receipt and said you got 18LE free, I think he meant I got 18.55LE discount on the...
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I've shopped in them all this week Keefy, KZ is the only one. Apparently its an anniversary ''gift'' to their loyal customers, so staff say.
A good article in G2 today, comparing cycling in various world cities. Seems Cairo comes a close second to Delhi as a bad place to be on a bike!
Tell a local that you cycle in Cairo, and more often...
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They used to call my sister Rebecca the Bedford Bike, 'never could understand that, she never had a bike….:cool:
the one that got thrown out of Girls Ashford, Maidstone Covent School for Young Ladies...
Thousands of protesters demonstrated in downtown Cairo on Tuesday to commemorate the second anniversary of the Mohamed Mahmoud clashes in 2011 that left approximately 50 dead.
The armed forces spokesman has said that a suicide attack on soldiers in North Sinai on Wednesday morning killed 11 and injured 37. Seven of the injured are in a critical condition.
A destroyed...
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This is the worst type of premeditated attack where everything has been scouted, planted and then the perpetrators wait for opportunity to strike. I often wonder how they can feel pride in such...
Egypt's unemployment rate inched up 0.1 percent in the third quarter of 2013, amounting to 13.4 percent of the country's total labour force, according to the state-run statistics body CAPMAS....
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The statistcs looks overoptimistic, I wonder what are the true figures. :cg
Like the old days Eurydice, El Ahram has started to make 'BIG errors', even people who have little knowledge of such a...
Since I know so many of you were once good friends of his thought you might want to know he is on Mubashir Misr and Jazeera Mubashir right now at a press conference in London.
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