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Better start paying for a WSJ subscription: The Wall Street Journal is tightening its paywall to close the “Google loophole,” which allowed people to skirt its paywall by cutting and pasting the headline of a story into Google, according to Digiday’s Lucia Moses. “The Journal is a rarity in publishing in that it gets more […]
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Inktank Communications is hiring an investor relations analyst
*** Investor relations analyst wanted: Inktank Communications, the Cairo-based investor relations firm that works with both major EGX-listed companies and privately held groups, is looking for two investor relations analysts. The position with our parent company entails working on everything from investor presentations, earnings releases, board material and client transactions to investor-focused press releases and […]
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Egypt’s record-high inflation rates make the rounds
Egypt’s “record-high inflation rates” made it into international headlines this morning, with Reuters suggesting that “the jump could put pressure on the Central Bank to hike rates” during Thursday’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting on Thursday, despite the poll results predicting that the bank will hold the overnight deposit and lending rates. The Financial Tribune and […]
Posted inImage of the Day
Creating an underwater garden in the Red Sea
A group of Egyptian divers have created an underwater sculpture park where new coral habitats can grow and flourish. The group behind the project, i-DiVE TRiBE, “are a diving club that work to protect and preserve the marine environment,” according to Coast Monkey. They hope to “generate whole new coral systems in an effort to […]
Posted inWorth watching
Proposal at the Pyramids
Proposal at the Pyramids: On this special day for lovers, we’ll bring you what could be our mushiest video yet. This quirky, pun-addicted couple posted a video (runtime: 5:30) on the What Doesn’t Suck Facebook page of when they flew to Egypt from Dubai and spent a wonderful 48 hours (their words). They were amazed […]
Posted inOn Deadline
Medication price hikes showed government’s weakness
Government was the weaker side in med price talks with pharma: The hikes in medication prices (yes, the ones agreed upon over a month ago) made it clear that the government was the noticeably weaker side in the negotiations on the price hikes, writes Al Shorouk’s Safwat Kabel, who seems to have just now caught […]
Posted inDiplomacy + Foreign Trade
Lebanese President urges Egypt to set out on an Arab salvation initiative
Brotherly love with Lebanon… Lebanese President Michel Aoun urged President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to launch an “Arab salvation initiative” based on a unified strategy to fight terrorism, Al Masry Al Youm reports. The initiative would “work on finding political solutions to the persisting crisis in the Arab world, especially in Syria where fire has […]
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Sudanese press playing up Shalatin, Halayeb dispute
…but with Sudan, not so much. Sudan and Egypt have rekindled their dispute over Halayeb and Shalatin following the African Union Summit, Sudanow reports. Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir said “The first general elections held in Sudan under the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium covered [Halayeb] as a Sudanese constituency,” he said. “Elections constitute a genuine sovereign exercise.”
Posted inEnergy
EGAS did not cancel agreements with Dana Gas
EGAS has not frozen or canceled its existing E&P agreements with Dana Gas, a source at EGAS told Al Mal. The source said Dana Gas, like any IOC, is just making its expansion plans contingent on debt repayment. Dana Gas’s CEO Patrick Allman-Ward had announced freezing investment in Egypt over delayed payments after announcing the […]