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  • Electricity grids in Baer Abd replaced, renewed -- official

    Date: 2015-04-07 12:27:20 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:39 - ID:2329545

    ARISH, Egypt, April 7 (MENA) - Electricity grids in Baer Abd city have been replaced and renewed, municipality chairman Adly el Yamani said Tuesday. The replacement and renovation cost a total of five million pounds, Yamani said, noting that 60 ....

  • Yemen Crisis: 89 fleeing Egyptians arrive in Cairo

    Date: 2015-04-07 12:24:34 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:37 - ID:2330089

    CAIRO. April 7 (MENA) - Two flights carrying 89 Egyptians, who fled Yemen violence into Saudi Arabia, arrived in Cairo on Tuesday, an aviation ministry source said. As many as 284 Egyptians were brought home from Jeddah so far, the source added. ....

  • Egypt, JICA sign deal to upgrade Gabal el Zeit power plant

    Date: 2015-04-07 11:47:01 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:32 - ID:2329405

    CAIRO, April 7 (MENA) - Electricity Ministry and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed on Tuesday an agreement to upgrade Gabal el Zeit power plant, western Egypt, Chairman of the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company Ahmed el ....

  • 1 killed, 17 injured in S. Sinai road accident

    Date: 2015-04-07 07:56:57 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:7 - ID:2327601

    SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, April 7 (MENA) - A 33-year old man was killed and 17 others injured on Tuesday when their bus turned over on Ahmed Hamdy-Sharm el Sheikh road in South Sinai, a medical source said. Head of the ambulance service in South ....

  • Trade Union slams Tourah Cement for suspending production

    Date: 2015-04-06 22:21:47 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:161 - ID:2326841

    CAIRO, April 6 (MENA) – The General Trade Union for Workers of Construction and Timber has slammed Tourah Portland Cement Company, which suspended production and blamed the laborers. In press statements on Monday, union chief Abdel Moneim el ....

  • Legalizing hashish threatens societal peace: Anti-addiction fund

    Date: 2015-04-06 21:46:25 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:156 - ID:2326801

    CAIRO, April 6 (MENA) – The Drug Control and Addiction Treatment Fund of the Solidarity Ministry voiced on Monday its deep concern over recent calls to legalize the hashish trade in Egypt. "Legalizing hashish threatens the peace of the community ....

  • Sisi probes civil society’s role in achieving development – Misr El Kheir

    Date: 2015-04-06 19:39:59 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:134 - ID:2326465

    CAIRO, April 6 (MENA) – President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s today meeting with representatives of the civil society took up the associations’ role in achieving development and setting up societal projects to improve the standards of living of the ....

  • Sisi: Low-income brackets to be considered in new national projects

    Date: 2015-04-06 18:59:51 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:131 - ID:2325753

    CAIRO, April 6 (MENA) – President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said limited-income and marginalized brackets will be considered in the national projects currently under establishment. The state budget will not burden the costs of the new administrative ....

  • Sisi meets charity organizations

    Date: 2015-04-06 18:50:17 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:121 - ID:2325661

    CAIRO, April 6 (MENA) – President Abdel Fattah El Sisi held a meeting with a number of representatives of charity and voluntary associations and initiatives on Monday. The president hailed the important role of civil society organizations, along ....

  • Health minister meets renowned heart surgeon Yacoub

    Date: 2015-04-06 15:57:11 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:80 - ID:2323305

    CAIRO, April 6 (MENA) - Health Minister Adel Adawi met with renowned heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub on Monday. The minister hailed the role of the Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation in Aswan. The foundation is a charity NGO that is working to provide ....

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