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  • Export council reveals rise in marble, granite exports in 2019

    Date: 2020-02-02 20:19:45 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:55 - ID:8295398

    CAIRO, Feb 2 (MENA) - The Export Council for Building Materials, Refractory & Metallurgy Industries revealed on Sunday an increase in the exports of marble and granite in 2019. In a fresh report Sunday, the council said the exports reached 2.461 ....

  • Egyptian exports of building materials hit $843 million in 2019

    Date: 2020-02-02 20:12:13 GMT - Egypt - Economy - SN:54 - ID:8295349

    CAIRO, Feb 2 (MENA) – Egyptian exports of cement, steel and rebar decreased by 41.3% percent in 2019 to stand at $843 million compared to 1.1 billion dollars a year earlier. According to the monthly report of the Building Materials Exports ....

  • Sisi orders gov't to scale up efforts to upgrade slum areas nationwide

    Date: 2020-02-02 18:53:41 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:53 - ID:8295304

    CAIRO, Feb 2 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi ordered the government to scale up its slum improvement efforts nationwide to ensure a decent life for slum dwellers and provide them with better services. Sisi made his directives during a ....

  • Sisi instructs gov't to give more attention to electric cars industry

    Date: 2020-02-02 18:01:52 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:52 - ID:8295311

    CAIRO, Feb 2 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has directed the government to pay more attention to the industry of electric vehicles, through cooperation with global automakers, to establish a regional center for manufacturing and exporting ....

  • Guinean president thanks UAE, CAEU for supporting development initiatives in Africa

    Date: 2020-02-02 17:42:42 GMT - United Arab Emirates - Arab world - SN:51 - ID:8294948

    ABU DHABI, CONAKRY, Feb 2 (MENA) - President of Guinea Alpha Condé thanked the UAE and the Council of Arab Economic Unity (CAEU) of the Arab League for supporting development initiatives in Africa, the Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported. This ....

  • Foreign Ministry follows up return of 306 Egyptians from China

    Date: 2020-02-02 17:04:00 GMT - Egypt - Politics and Diplomacy - SN:50 - ID:8295252

    CAIRO, Feb 2 (MENA) - Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Ahmed Hafez has said that the ministry is in contact with the Egyptian Embassy in Beijing to follow up the return of 306 Egyptians from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of new ....

  • PM forms intellectual property rights committee

    Date: 2020-02-02 16:49:08 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:49 - ID:8295175

    CAIRO, Feb 2 (MENA) - Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli has issued a decree to establish a ministerial committee for protecting intellectual property rights. As per the decree, which was published Sunday in the official Gazette, the higher ....

  • Tourism minister highlights Egypt's hosting of significant tourism events in 2020

    Date: 2020-02-02 16:19:12 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:48 - ID:8295181

    CAIRO, Feb 2 (MENA) - Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khaled el Anani said on Sunday that Egypt will witness two significant tourism events this year; namely the transfer of royal mummies to the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization and the ....

  • Tourism minister says two halls at Cairo int'l airport to be used as museum

    Date: 2020-02-02 16:10:06 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:47 - ID:8295185

    CAIRO, Feb 2 (MENA) - Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khaled el Anani said on Sunday that two halls at Cairo international airport will be turned into a museum to promote cultural tourism in Egypt. The move also aims to encourage transit ....

  • WHO: Only four countries can detect coronavirus in Middle East

    Date: 2020-02-02 16:06:24 GMT - Russia - World - SN:46 - ID:8295172

    MOSCOW, Feb 2 (MENA) - Abd al Nasser Abu Bakr, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Office of Communicable Disease Control in the Eastern Mediterranean, said that only four countries in the Middle East were able to detect cases of new ....

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