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Italian tourist arrivals double in 1Q2017: The number of Italian tourists visiting Egypt increased by 100% y-o-y in 1Q2017 to 130,000, head of the Tourism Promotion Authority office in Italy Emad Fathy said, according to Al Shorouk. He expects the number of incoming tourists to reach at least 250,000 by year-end. The authority has launched […]
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The private sector is now in the crosshairs of the Trade Union Federation
The Egyptian Trade Union Federation is the latest to line up for its chance to milk the private sector, state coffers. ETUF has prepared model legislation that it says will improve pension benefits for private-sector workers, particularly for casual workers who aren’t covered under the current pensions act, including construction workers and truck drivers The […]
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Safwan Thabet, Moustafa Sakr, Aboutrika named in terror watchlist
Safwan Thabet, Moustafa Sakr, Aboutrika named in terror watchlist: Juhayna Chairman Safwan Thabet, retired football hero Mohamed Aboutrika, and Moustafa Sakr (chairman of Business News, which publishes Al Borsa and Daily News Egypt) were among 1,537 people named in a terrorist watchlist compiled by state security and ratified by a Cairo Criminal Court. The list […]
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Prime Minister orders governors to form committee to oversee repossession of seized land
Prime Minister Sherif Ismail ordered governors on Sunday to form committees to process appeals by those looking to get back land seized under the state’s land reclamation campaign, AMAY reports. Authorities have been clearing unlicensed developments and reclaiming illegally occupied land over the past month and the government is expected to present a detailed report […]
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Government could hire private consultant to further study hike in port fees
Government to revisit East Port Said port fees? The government appears to be leaning towards hiring a neutral consultant to look into the impact of a hike in port fees in East Port Said that prompted five major shipping lines to suspend operations there in protest back in March, Al Mal reports. K-Line, one of […]
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International news on 5 June 2017
A handful of international stories worth a look on a slow news morning: Incumbent UK Prime Minister Theresa May is running neck and neck with Labour’sJeremy Corbyn ahead of Thursday’s snap parliamentary election, which May had called to win a stronger mandate as she begins negotiating Britain’s exit from the European Union. One pollster is […]
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The Citizen’s Right to Know, Ibrahim Eissa
Our friends at Tarek Nour Group have launched a national awareness campaign called “The Citizen’s Right to Know” to ask hard questions and tackle issues surrounding national unity. The campaign is not the usual Ramadan marketing fluff: It goes deep by asking the difficult question of what we, as Egyptians, want to see when we […]
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Saudi FM, Hamas visits top coverage of Egypt this morning
On a slow news day for Egypt this morning, wire pickups of the visits to Egypt by SaudiArabia’s foreign minister and Hamas’ Gaza top leadership led coverage of Egypt in the foreign press this morning. All note past tensions with both parties, namely the Aramco cuts from Saudi Arabia, and the cooling of ties with […]
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Okail writes about her exile, wishes she could come back to Egypt
Tahrir institute for Middle East Policy executive director Nancy Okail says Egypt is in “dire shape,” but she wishes she could go back to it, in a piece in The Washington Post. Okail was sentenced to five years in prison as part of the foreign funding NGO case number 173 in 2013, but has been […]