'Bandits' want $6m to free tourists, says Egypt
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Five Italians, five Germans and a Romanian kidnapped along with eight Egyptian guides and guards
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IBM invests in nanotech and services in Egypt
ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
IBM announces nanotechnology research centre and extends services investment and programs in Egypt
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University professors say no practical steps taken towards pay-scheme
3arabawy (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Sarah Carr reports… A university professor has said that he has seen “no clear indication” that funds are being allocated to a performance-related pay scheme introduced in June. “So far there is no clear indication that any money is being given to professors,” Amr El-Darrag, vice-chairman of the Egyptian University Faculty Club — which represents the interests [...]
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Journalists’ Syndicate discusses ‘historic verdict’ on health sector privatization
3arabawy (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
From the Daily News Egypt… Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif’s plans to privatize Egypt’s health insurance system would have been “a complete waste of public money,” said Khaled Ali, chairman of the Hisham Mubarak Law Center. Ali was speaking at a press conference held by the Journalists’ Syndicate to discuss the Administrative Court’s decision to halt initial plans [...]
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Egyptian sunken antiquities carried to Italy
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Egypt State Information Service Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif approved moving the Egyptian sunken antiquities exhibition from the city of Madrid, Spain to the Italian capital Rome. To be inaugurated next week. The exhibition is of special importance since it is the first time Egyptian antiquities are exhibited outside Egypt. "The exhibition will be organized for the first time in the Italian capital,...
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IBM: Egyptian Government and IBM Initiatives to Develop Scientific Research, University Curriculum and IT Exports
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
CAIRO, EGYPT (MARKET WIRE) IBM (NYSE: IBM) today launched a Global Service Delivery Center based in Egypt and signed agreements with the government to create a nanotechnology research center and develop a services science university curriculum.
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Prime Minister Probes Four New Bills in Health Sector
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
Prime Minister, Ahmed Nazif held a meeting Friday 12/9/2008 with Minister of Health Hatem Al-Gabali, in which he discussed a list of health draft laws before submitting it to the parliament.
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Four New Bills in Health Sector
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Prime Minister, Ahmed Nazif held a meeting Friday 12/9/2008 with Minister of Health Hatem Al-Gabali, in which he discussed a list of health draft laws before submitting it to the parliament.
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Under pressure
Al Ahram Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
The third phase of construction on an underground metro could cause more traffic jams above ground, reports Reem Leila
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Cairo confirms death toll after rock slide
IOL (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Egyptian officials have confirmed that 38 people died in a weekend rock slide in a shantytown near Cairo.
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EGYPT - ROCKSLIDE: Search continues after Cairo rockslide
France24 (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
At least 30 people were killed when a rockslide crushed dozens of homes in a Cairo shantytown on Saturday. A desperate search for survivors is still underway, with hundreds of people feared to be buried under the debris.
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Rock slide in Egypt kills at least 24
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Boulders crush homes in east Cairo; residents say government 'is just watching' Hind Hussein returned from the hospital after going into false labor and was nodding off early yesterday when the cliff above her shantytown home rumbled and boulders the size of tugboats rained down, crushing scores of apartments and houses in a storm of rocks, grit and dust.
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Hundreds feared trapped in Egypt rockslide
Fair Proxy Web (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Massive boulders peeled away from a cliff and buried dozens of homes in an Egyptian shantytown Saturday, killing at least 18 people, authorities said. Rescuers were digging by hand to reach any survivors. At least eight boulders, some the size of a small house, fell from the [...]
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Rescue efforts slow for Cairo rockslide victims - Summary
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Cairo- Rescue workers are battling against a lack of access to the site of Saturday morning's rockslide on the outskirts of Cairo in which at least 20 people have been killed, witnesses have said. Hundreds of tons of limestone rock came crashing down...
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18 dead, hundreds feared buried in rockslide
CNN (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
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