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  • Finance Ministry offers T-bills at EGP 6.5 billion

    Finance Ministry offers T-bills at EGP 6.5 billion

    Date: 2015-05-03 15:43:44 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:51 - ID:2509573

    The Finance Ministry auctioned on Sunday treasury bills at a total value of EGP 6.5 billion. In an online statement, the ministry said it sold EGP 2.5 billion of 91-day T-bills. The average yield was 11.280 percent, it said. As for the 273-day ....

  • PM approves new formation of TRA board

    PM approves new formation of TRA board

    Date: 2015-05-03 15:42:14 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:50 - ID:2509561

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab approved on Sunday the new formation of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) board of directors. The new board will be chaired by the Minister of Communications and Information Technology Khaled ....

  • Tunisia capable of securing Jewish tourists, says minister

    Tunisia capable of securing Jewish tourists, says minister

    Date: 2015-05-03 15:41:12 GMT - Tunisia - Arab world - SN:49 - ID:2509557

    Tunisian Interior Minister Mohamed Najem Gharsalli said on Sunday that Tunisia is capable of securing Jewish tourists during their festivals at el Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia. Gharsalli made the statement on the sidelines of a visit to the ....

  • Interior Minister orders human rights committee to visit Port Said raped girl

    Interior Minister orders human rights committee to visit Port Said raped girl

    Date: 2015-05-03 15:36:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:48 - ID:2509521

    Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar allowed on Sunday a human rights committee to visit a raped girl in Port Said. Three criminals raped a champion of paralympics in the Canal city earlier, a security official said. He added that two of the ....

  • Collective decline in Egypt bourse indices

    Collective decline in Egypt bourse indices

    Date: 2015-05-03 15:32:17 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:47 - ID:2509481

    The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) indices shut on Sunday's session collectively down over sales by local and foreign investment funds and institutions on the back drop of statements by the head of taxes authority, who said that there is no intention to ....

  • Abbas meets Chinese ambassador

    Abbas meets Chinese ambassador

    Date: 2015-05-03 15:30:35 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:46 - ID:2509473

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met on Sunday with the Chinese Ambassador here. During the get-together, Abbas hailed the deeply-rooted relations between Palestine and China. They discussed the latest developments in the Palestinian ....

  • Mahlab assigns GAID to allocate lands of industrial investment

    Mahlab assigns GAID to allocate lands of industrial investment

    Date: 2015-05-03 15:29:06 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:45 - ID:2509453

    Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab assigned the General Authority for Industrial Development (GAID) to allocate plots of lands of industrial investment in all the industrial areas until the completion of executive regulation of investment law. The ....

  • Pope Tawadros opens 3 alters at Amsterdam church

    Pope Tawadros opens 3 alters at Amsterdam church

    Date: 2015-05-03 15:27:25 GMT - Netherlands - Egypt - SN:44 - ID:2509449

    Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark Diocese launched three new alters at the St. Mary The Virgin Coptic Orthodox Church in Amsterdam on Thursday. The three alters are of Saint Arsenios, Saint Moses the Black and Saint Menas ....

  • Finance minister denies giving statements to Anadolu

    Finance minister denies giving statements to Anadolu

    Date: 2015-05-03 15:24:44 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:43 - ID:2509433

    Finance Minister Hany Qadry denied on Sunday giving any press statements to Anadolu news Agency on the economic situation in Egypt. Such reports are baseless, he said. He further called on the Egyptian and foreign media outlets to seek ....

  • Moroccan security foils 2 illegal infiltration attempts

    Moroccan security foils 2 illegal infiltration attempts

    Date: 2015-05-03 12:55:13 GMT - Morocco - Arab world - SN:42 - ID:2508265

    Moroccan security forces foiled two illegal infiltration attempts by immigrants on the borders between Melilla and Farkhana. In the first attempt, some 400 illegal migrants tried to trespass the borders and they tried once again to cross the ....

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