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The number of reported car accidents in Egypt fell by nearly a quarter last year, according to new figures from the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS).
Some 8,480...
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Many vehicle accidents - especially those not involving serious injury- go unreported so the statistical drop is meaningless.
Often one, or both, drivers will have been indulging in substance abuse...
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has raised the country’s minimum wage to 2,000 Egyptian pounds a month from 1,200 pounds, he said at an event on Saturday celebrating women.
Sisi said the...
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I still know many only getting 750Le a Month, so it looks like the Government don't do check-ups to see if the minimum wage is being implemented :(
Egypt just opened its first long-distance hiking trail and it’s stunning
Mar 4, 2019
A NEW HIKING TRAIL just opened in Egypt. The 105-mile Red Sea Mountain Trail will be the first long-distance...
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Thanks.
Will keep an eye out on the Sinai standard of living but like most Egyptian stats they are terrified about any evidence of gaps in services or standard of living. The jobs you refer to are...
According to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah’s speech at the final session of the Arab and African Youth forum in Aswan, foreigners residing in Egypt are to be screened as part of the “100 Million...
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Bizarre proposal from Sisi.Is the testing of foreigners - 8 million a year - to be compulsory and where is the law to enforce that. After 50 years of stuff-ups in HepC and with 9-14 million infected,...
12 March 2019: A week ago, an official at the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced that banknotes with writings or scribbles are untradable, a step begged a question on the possibility of trading...
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Yes John I had that problem in Turkey too, It's financially better to withdraw cash from the ATM's in GB Pounds than Turkish Lira and although the banks refuse to take UK money with writing on quite...
This post is irrelevant to all the essential tourist questions – where do I get toilet paper, where do I eat and drink, why does my tour guide keep offering me members of...
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You dont change governments by voting, if you could then voting would be banned by Government..
Democracy is good, but its all an illusion... :br
**** *** the world bank and watch what happens....
On Tuesday, Egypt's Minister of Health and Population Hala Zayed inaugurated the country's first-ever floating hospital on the Nile in Aswan governorate, Egypt Independent reported.
The water...
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You are correct Hafiz, We have a hospital in North Wales where I used to work a few years ago, and thier problem was getting decent Doctors to work there.
You see, Doctors like to work in places...
Egypt’s tourism industry is at a critical juncture as resorts try to win back visitors driven away by fears of civil unrest, religious intolerance and terrorism.
Back in 2010, the industry was...
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The only difference is in the UK its publisised and not swept under carpets. I appreciate it though that the ones that are publised in Egypt end up in an almighty gun shootout with the forces that...
Many will know that the Cairo Film Festival has attracted bad attention. The one with the ‘see-through’ dress struck me as showing poor judgment given she was about 20 kgs over...
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The same thing happens here. We have the grand old house that backs onto Luxor temple, former home of the well known semi reclusive sisters, late eighties I think, that were found murdered in their...
A small group of us travelled to the town of El Tod a couple of days ago to see the Temple there. We enjoyed very much looking round the temple but what astounded us was the town itself. Driving up...
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El Tod is a wonderful place, not just the temple, but also the small town. Few tourist visit this place which is rather sad really. It was investigated years ago by French archeologists. As you enter...
Organ trafficking in Egypt: ‘They locked me in and took my kidney.
Wearing a baseball hat and smoking a shisha pipe in a cafe in Cairo, Dawitt tells me he is 19, but looks years younger. He explains...
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Unfortunately if your life depends on a kidney transplant, and you have the money, but lack scruples, your not going to question where or how the organ was supplied. its a ready made market for the...
A German woman and two Egyptian children were killed on Tuesday when a building collapsed in a residential neighbourhood of Egypt's southern city of Luxor, a senior security official told AFP.
So...
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I was told it was one of the few remaining mud brick buildings. Maybe the recant rainfall was the cause, it happening at the same time.
No I don’t mean THAT – I mean Darwin and the geneticists that followed him including, oddly, the Czech, Augustinian friar Mendel who applied the theory to the selection and...
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Beliefs are all well and good, but they do not change Facts.
Facts, if you are rational should change your beliefs.
There are some cold hard truths out there, that many simply do not want to face...
Millions of stray dogs pose growing urban challenge in Egypt as animal rights advocates often lambast government, accusing it of mass culls.
Alaa Hilal was out shopping in Cairo when she was...
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Totally agree with you carrie. I never fed the stray cats, they did what all stray cats do, forage for themselves. I am now stuck with up to 15 of them. If I do not feed them then I have to try and...
As Egypt becomes the first Arab country to authorise the production and sale of a drug meant to boost the female libido, the BBC's Sally Nabil explores whether there's a market for it in such a...
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Exactly Hepzi, mutilate a womans body and then expect her to be enjoying sex and then lay her lack of enthusiasm on a chemical imbalance that can be rectified with a pill.
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