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Has anyone stayed here within the last couple of years? I've stayed there three times, but it's been eight years since the last, and it needed refurbishment. Has it been done or is it being/going to...
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I love the Isis Island! DH prefers the Movenpick but, although the service, rooms and food there are good, there is something very personal about the Isis Island for me. Maybe it's the view from our...
The Egyptian Tax Authority collected taxes amounting to LE 115.91 billion during the first quarter of the current fiscal year 2018/2019, according to Head of the Authority Emad Samy.
Samy noted...
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I was informed last week zee Germans are now flying 6 flights a week into Luxor, also Hurgharda is direct from
Berlin, 'gotun himmel!. .... 8)
Ps: Hot news President Sisi is due here this week with...
Seems that Egypt wants the Rosetta Stone back for their new Giza Museum.
One doubts many people will actually visit the unfinished museum.
Dr Tarek Tawfik say's The British Museum can have a...
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Whatever next! the Greeks asking for the return of the Elgin Marbles?
At least we have a bargaining chip with those as in: “We will give you back the Elgin Marbles if you agree to take back all the...
Egypt is one of the countries most affected by organ trafficking. Widespread poverty means criminal gangs can easily trick or pressure people into selling their organs. While authorities have passed...
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Flaming disgusting, but poverty leads to many things that people will do to escape. Where has all this poverty emerged from, it cannot be the authorities they the people were led to believe were...
“For travel reason, 10kg of potatoes are for sale to the highest bidder!” “I’ve broken up with my finance because his salary can’t buy us enough potatoes!” “I wish my husband-to-be will give me a...
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All these measures do not seem to be working at the moment. So the local people can expects spiraling prices for a few years yet! The whole Country and everybody in it is corrupt so you can expect...
Whether in Egypt’s working-class areas, villages, or on highways, it is ubiquitous. The tuk-tuk, a motorised rickshaw, has become a main mode of transport in this country of nearly 100 million...
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A classic example of why Egypt struggles.
Tuk tuks require a licence but few localities actualy enforce this requirement. Many areas are a free-for -all for unlicenced drivers.....they just need to...
The Jewish owner was expelled from Egypt in 1957, the hotel was nationalized in 1962, the government ‘paid’ $29,000 (1962 rates) for the hotel and the incompetent EGOTH, the...
Egypt yesterday announced the arrival of the first electric bus from China which will service the Alexandria Corniche Road.
Local media, including the state-run Al-Akhbar newspaper, reported that...
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I've heard of the slow boat to China, but **** me, how long did the journey take? :lol: And no doubt it will turn out to be ''wong type of wode.'' that prevents it working.
China in the 60’s was dirt poor and Mao was killing and purging 10’s of millions and purging his own party of any competitors to his senile self and covering up his two disastrous...
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Dr you can bet Iceland employee's are on minimum wage!!
I always used to think Nawal El Saadawi was a glimmer of light in the darkness of Egyptian human rights and democracy and her acquiescence to some of the regimes' outrages could be put down to...
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Newcastle. i agree with you and this is not her first interview in the past 4-5 years which has seemed a reversal of her previous liberal views.
Senility is one interpretation but another is that...
During the ‘Techne Summit’ 2018 conference held at the Bibliotheca Alexandria, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat announced on Saturday that there will be over 20...
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They can't even provide a reliable internet service. Must be the worst on the African continent.
According to the foreign and local Egyptian media outlets, the govenor of Qalyubia decreed that images of Mickey Mouse and accompanying cartoon characters are to be replaced by military heroes on the...
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What military heroes in the last 70 years. I can think of a few prior to 1952 but none after. In fact i can think of a few civilian heroes prior to 1952 - Taha Hussein, Talaat Harb and Saad Zaghul -...
Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism will not be renewing a multi-million dollar contract with global advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, reported Enterprise on Thursday citing government sources....
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I missed something.
The Egyptian Media Group is owned by a so-called venture capital firm called Eagle Capital which is run by a former and failed Minister Dalia Khorshid who is the wife of the...
There is the Heliopolis one – 700-1200 rooms – few photographs of its interior, a former hotel, protected by missile batteries and several thousand Presidential...
Al Pravda (Cairo affiliate) has Egypt leading the world in Naval Military manufacturing. Wish it was the case. No I don't.
According to them the French...
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As in created x 3 companies Chardin manufacturing, Darlan, nickel plating, and Astrid retail....
My job was to 'sort the Prefecture so our sellers didn't keep getting nicked.... 8)
iSharp Managing Director for the Middle East, Ashraf Hazin, announced on Tuesday the establishment of Egypt’s first ‘smart’ educational city in Giza governorate.
According to Hazin, the investment...
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Well if had introduced all his err.... 'wonderful help my People schemes , a bit earlier, he might not have got kicked out.
Et tu Brute ?.... 8)
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