It was another night of miscellany on the airwaves as the flurry of state-sponsored conferences came to an end.

Around 80% of merchants are complying with the price-printing policy introduced by the Supply Ministry earlier this year, head of the ministry’s Central Administration for Monitoring Osama Mekhamer said on Hona Al Asema. The ministry launches daily campaigns to ensure retailers have products’ prices clearly visible on their wares (watch, runtime: 03:59). Ministry spokesman Ahmed Kamal also phoned in to give an update on the ongoing purge of the country’s subsidy rolls (watch, runtime: 05:01).

House spokesman Salah Hasaballah denied that MPs are playing hooky, saying on Al Hayah Al Youm that only a small minority of MPs miss sessions (the number of bills whose passing was held up due to lack of quorum suggests otherwise…). Parliamentarians whose moms write them notes to stay at home are generally absent because they are following up on issues in their district and, in any case, House regulations do not include provisions to address poor attendance records, Hasaballah said (watch, runtime: 05:06).

Are we getting complimentary Wi-Fi at tourist spots? Egypt is set to sign an agreement with an unnamed private company that will provide complimentary Wi-Fi at select tourist attractions and provide organized transportation for tourists at these sites, Supreme Antiquities Council Secretary General Mostafa Wazery said on Al Hayah Al Youm (watch, runtime: 10:24).

Wazery also addressed the tired topic of the Danish tourist and his explicit photos allegedly taken atop one of the Giza Pyramids on Hona Al Asema, saying that the matter is in the hands of the judiciary now (watch, runtime: 07:57).

Egypt is officially home to a population of 98 mn, and one baby is born every 15 seconds, Population Council President Amr Hassan told Yahduth fi Masr’s Sherif Amer. Hassan explained the perils of the population boom, saying that the birth rate has outstripped the growth of the state’s resources (watch, runtime: 04:30)

Egypt’s revived relations with Africa was the name of the game on Hona Al Asema, where economist Sherif El Khereby prophesied that the breakthrough in diplomatic ties will be egged on by the number of events Egypt has organized this year (watch, runtime: 04:11).

…That includes the Intra-African Trade Fair, which Trade and Industry Minister Amr Nassar told Masaa DMC’s Osama Kamal will host some 32 countries and 1,000 companies (watch, runtime: 02:59).

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