Miscellaneous

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  • French ambassador to grant new scholarships to 16 Egyptian students

    Date: 2014-04-09 16:17:15 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:129 - ID:658921

    CAIRO, April 9 (MENA) - France's ambassador to Egypt, Nicolas Gallet, will grant on Thursday new scholarships to 16 Egyptian students. These scholarships come under the "Eiffel Scholarship for Excellence" program which is sponsored by the French ....

  • Minya University honors female teacher for winning Microsoft's Innovative Educators competition

    Date: 2014-04-09 16:06:51 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:122 - ID:658942

    MINYA, April 9 (MENA) – Minya University honored a female teacher for winning a first place in Microsoft's Innovative Educators competition held at Microsoft's HQ in the US. Egypt, who has had 8 competing teachers, came in the second place after ....

  • Orman Garden renovation should be completed before Flowers Festival - minister

    Date: 2014-04-09 11:12:00 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:58 - ID:658208

    CAIRO, April 9 (MENA) - Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Ayman Fareed Abu-Hadid stressed the need to complete the first phase of renovating the Orman Garden in Giza ahead of the Flowers Festival slated for April 14. This will be the ....

  • Russian tourist gets back stolen belongings

    Date: 2014-04-09 10:32:03 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:49 - ID:657804

    HURGHADA, Egypt, April 9 (MENA) - Hurghada investigation police have returned stolen belongings to a Russian tourist. The 37-year-old tourist discovered that her laptop and mobile phone were stolen from her villa at a tourist resort in southern ....

  • Mahlab appoints new chief for Academy of Scientific Research

    Date: 2014-04-08 17:44:46 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:135 - ID:657037

    CAIRO, April 8 (MENA) – Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab appointed Tuesday Mahmoud Sakr as the new president of the Academy of Scientific Research. According to the decision, Sakr's tenure will last for four years. Sakr was born in 1965. He got ....

  • Nile water level decreases 1 cm

    Date: 2014-04-08 11:03:52 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:54 - ID:656194

    CAIRO, April 8 (MENA) - The Nile River water level dropped Tuesday, recording 175.23 meters, one centimeter less than yesterday. Water released from the Aswan Dam reached 155 million cubic meters and the amount of water coming freshly to Lake ....

  • Egypt proposes setting up wheat dryers at French shipping ports

    Date: 2014-04-08 08:10:07 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:19 - ID:655553

    CAIRO, April 8 (MENA) - Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Khaled Hanafy during his meeting with French Grains Association President Jean-Pierre Langlois-Berthelot discussed a proposal for setting up wheat dryers at the farms of the association ....

  • Egypt to buy 5-million-pound spectrograph

    Date: 2014-04-07 08:57:41 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:32 - ID:653781

    CAIRO, April 7 (MENA) - Egypt's National Institute for Astronomical Researches will buy a five-million-pound spectrograph that will help analyze light coming from distant stars and galaxies. Dr Ashraf Latif, head of the astronomy department at ....

  • Egypt's National Circus to perform in North Korea

    Date: 2014-04-06 08:50:50 GMT - Egypt - Miscellaneous - SN:16 - ID:651800

    CAIRO, April 6 (MENA) - A delegation of the National Circus performers will head for North Korea n Monday to take part in the International Spring Festival, to kick off on Friday. Director of the circus Adel Reda said Egypt is the only Arab ....

  • 8,000 Ukraine troops in Crimea defected to Russia

    Date: 2014-04-05 08:20:02 GMT - Russia - Miscellaneous - SN:14 - ID:650024

    MOSCOW, April 5 (MENA) - Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said 8,000 soldiers stationed in Crimea have left Ukraine's military to join the Russian armed forces, RIA Novosti reported Saturday. Shoigu said that the soldiers have applied for ....

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