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  • More than 1 million contact lenses seized in Cairo

    Date: 2015-11-12 14:06:28 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:63 - ID:3717233

    CAIRO, Nov 12 (MENA) - Supply and internal trade police raided a company for contact lenses in Abdeen district of Cairo and seized more than 1 million contact lenses which are non compliant with standard specifications and lead to blindness. The ....

  • New housing project for slum dwellers almost complete - governor

    Date: 2015-11-12 12:18:14 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:51 - ID:3716009

    CAIRO, Nov 12 (MENA) – Cairo governorate completed the construction of a large housing project with full services for the relocation of residents of life-risky slums, Governor Mostafa Galal Saeed said Thursday. The two projects named Asmarat 1 and ....

  • Clogged sewage basin in Shubra el Kheima fixed

    Date: 2015-11-11 11:51:45 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:52 - ID:3709061

    BANHA, Egypt, Nov 11 (MENA) -The sewage basin in Shubra el Kheima has been fixed, after unidentified people had clogged it, said board chairman of drinking water and sanitation company in Qalyubia Mostafa Megahed. Water suction cars were deployed ....

  • Transport minister meets with transport police to coordinate security measures

    Date: 2015-11-11 11:42:57 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:50 - ID:3709617

    CAIRO, Nov 11 (MENA) - Minister of Transport Saad el Gioushy met on Wednesday with transport police commanders under Head of the General Police Department for Transport General Mohammad Youssef to discuss coordinating efforts as regards security ....

  • MP to file five interpellations

    Date: 2015-11-11 09:40:44 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:24 - ID:3708141

    CAIRO, Nov 11 (MENA) - Qena MP Mohamed Askar said he will file interpellations against the ministers of housing, health, interior affairs, transport and electricity over deteriorating services in Upper Egypt. In statements to reporters on ....

  • Agriculture minister says crops, lands harmed by floods to be sorted, handled

    Date: 2015-11-11 09:31:25 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:23 - ID:3708137

    CAIRO, Nov 11 (MENA) - Crops and lands harmed by floods and heavy rain are being sorted and handled by the Agriculture Ministry. Essam Fayed, the Agriculture Minister, said Wednesday that convoys grouping experts from the agricultural guidance and ....

  • Egypt starts receiving private sector's wheat requests

    Date: 2015-11-11 09:17:40 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:21 - ID:3707941

    CAIRO, Nov 11 (MENA) – The General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) has started receiving requests from the private sector's mills and factories for imported wheat, Supply Minister Khaled Hanafy said Wednesday. It is the first time the ....

  • Supermarkets' chains to reduce prices of strategic foodstuffs

    Date: 2015-11-11 07:59:21 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:12 - ID:3707537

    CAIRO, Nov 11 (MENA) - Minister of Supply Khaled Hanafy said an agreement was reached with owners of mega supermarkets' chains to offer a discount on a large number of strategic foodstuffs. He said the amount of the discount and the commodities ....

  • 750 wheel chairs to help elderly, handicapped voters in Gharbiya parl't vote

    Date: 2015-11-10 22:27:53 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:131 - ID:3706653

    TANTA, Nov 10 (MENA) – As many as 750 wheel chairs will be available for disabled and elderly voters to help them casting their ballot in parliamentary elections in Gharbiya, the governorate's security chief Nabil Abdel Fattah said Tuesday. Abdel ....

  • Local officials sacked, referred to investigation in Sharqia

    Date: 2015-11-10 14:53:40 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:80 - ID:3703973

    ZAGAZIG, Egypt, Nov 10 (MENA) - Sharqia Governor Reda Abdel Salam on Tuesday sacked five local officials in Abu Kabir and Kafr Saqr districts and referred them to investigation. Three officials were sacked over neglect of duty to protect ....

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