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Fuel prices in Egypt were hiked on Saturday, the second day of the Eid Al-Fitr holiday, as Egypt continues to phase out energy subsidies in order to curb the growing state budget deficit.
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What about the village consortium's where they pay quite a bit less, for gas or do you not get these on the East Bank?
Look at the percentage increases, they are disgusting!!
The Armed Forces is about to earn $US176 billion a year and create 20,000 jobs.
How amazing. That turnover would make them the biggest corporation in the world many times larger than Microsoft and...
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Interesting and appalling. Thanks.
I wonder whether the 'bonds' are the Suez Canal development bonds (a complete waste of time and money for Egypt but proclaimed the greatest investment in the...
According to the annual Gallup Global Law and Order, Egypt has outranked both the US, UK and the entire African continent when...
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Whilst I totally agree with your comments Newcastle I can't help (from a personal experience) but think Luxor and Aswan is far safer than many UK cities. With the constant gangland killings, murder,...
Egypt's Minister of Electricity announces rates of hikes in electricity bills for fiscal year 2018/2019.
Egypt's Minister of Electricity Mohamed Shaker announced in a press conference on Tuesday new...
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We both have a fistful of these high electricity bills we have had to pay over the last eighteen months. These are not the highest in regards to a few of them.
Unofficial street carts serving foul have become the suhoor ‘restaurant’ of choice for thousands of Egyptians in recent Ramadans. These carts seem to be on every corner of Egyptian city streets,...
Egypt recorded the lowest mortality rates this year compared to past years, Minister of Health and Population Ahmed Emad el-Din Rady announced on Wednesday.
There have been 57 dead recorded for...
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In 2005, the country witnessed its lowest birth rate, with nearly 800, 000 babies born that year, while a significant rise in birth rates was observed in 2004, when around 2,700, 0 00 births were...
Egyptian Writers: Egyptian Soccer Star Mohamed Salah Would Never Have Succeeded In Egypt – Because Of Egypt's Culture Of Corruption, Backwardness, And Laziness
It comes as a bit of a surprise that...
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Well if MEMRI have been faking it, and inventing the Egyptian articles to which it refers, or deliberately mis-tanslating them, then that's me off to the calaboose for spreading false information and...
Some Ramadan series are being admonished for portraying Egypt's police in a less than favourable light.
The Drama Committee at the Supreme Council for Media Regulation on Thursday prepared a report...
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Newcastle interesting.
As you recall the police were a big 'issue' in 2011. It was difficult to read but the anger against the police was, at that time, only slightly less than the anger against...
Egypt’s cabinet submitted its resignation to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Tuesday following his swearing-in for a second term after a landslide election victory.
Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court denied the ownership of any agricultural land to foreigners in a verdict issued Tuesday. Accordingly, all land owned by foreigners will be reverted back to the...
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Thanks. I have difficulty organizing my thoughts on this massive disaster except for the following. The actual disaster and financial loss is likely much,much larger than admitted or known. The...
A cousin of the rotter King Farouk, a pianist and painter he stayed on in humble circumstances after Nasser’s military dictatorship came to power and took their money....
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In the House of Muhammad Ali is an interesting read. Certainly a few colourful characters in the family :lol:
I had it in my library but lent it to an Egyptian friend some time ago when he...
A word of warning concerning the evisas available from the government sponsored site
It offers the usual 30 day visa and a 6 month, multiple re-entry visa.
From the portal enquiry line:
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If that is the case Newc. Is there a reason why everything they do there is topsy turvy, and it does seem its impossible to get things correct the first time of trying. It may be because they do not...
Here's a good one from the Parliamentary Committee of (Silly) Proposals and Complaints :
I was intrigued by the term escorts :oops: ....and felt I had to read further :lol:
Egypt’s Parliamentary...
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:lol: They must of read my post a few years back on the topic of visas. I stated that I would be quite happy to pay 5,000 per year for my visa as long as the ridiculous situations some of us still...
Egypt’s worrying population boom fails to generate the same headline attention as terrorist attacks, the impact of economic reforms on the poor, the country’s hyper-constrained politics, or...
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Makes you wonder if the men and women have anything any better to do? It is and will always be a big problem in the Country. And when the land used to feed them has been turned into development land...
Well they are a firm founded by Jews or worse still - Western, Liberal, Democrats – filth.
They have done a new in-depth article confirming the bleeding obvious...
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I used to clean the windows of Reuters in Fleet St.
They had a sort of 10ft long Rolodex that went down floors it was part of their library, nobody seemed to mind
too much me perusing it, I also did...
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