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  • Presidential decrees to amend 8 oil, gas agreements

    Date: 2014-01-02 14:25:32 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:71 - ID:475429

    CAIRO, Jan 2 (MENA) - President Adly Mansour issued on Thursday decrees amending the governing laws of eight agreements in the oil and gas sectors. Investments under such agreements amount to 1.2 billion dollars. From the eight ....

  • Biography of new MENA's board chairman Alaa Heidar

    Date: 2014-01-02 14:19:46 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:70 - ID:475509

    CAIRO, Jan 2 (MENA) - New board chairman of the Middle East News Agency (MENA) Alaa Heidar is considered one of the most prominent journalists at MENA. He joined MENA in 1984, after obtaining a Bachelor Degree in the French Language from the ....

  • PM discusses black sands project

    Date: 2014-01-02 14:17:21 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:69 - ID:475431

    CAIRO, Jan 2 (MENA) - Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawy held on Thursday a meeting to discuss a project of maximizing benefits from black sands in Borolus area, Kafr el-Sheikh. The meeting comes within the framework of following up the results of ....

  • Estino opens 1st experimental station for solar concentrators

    Date: 2014-01-02 14:06:27 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:68 - ID:475353

    CAIRO, Jan 2 (MENA) - Scientific Research Minister Ramzi Estino opened on Thursday the first experimental station for solar concentrators. The move came as part of an agreement between the Science and Technology Fund, Cairo University and ....

  • Bourse starts new year with gains worth EGP 2 billion

    Date: 2014-01-02 13:59:02 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:67 - ID:475425

    CAIRO, Jan 2 (MENA) - The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) indexes posted collective gains in the first session of 2014. The market capital gained about 2.05 billion pounds, to end the first session of the new year at 428.8 billion pounds, after ....

  • 23 persons involved in Minya violence arrested

    Date: 2014-01-02 13:58:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:66 - ID:475354

    MINYA, Egypt, Jan 2 (MENA) - Security forces in Minya detained 23 persons after arrest warrants were issued for them. They are accused of storming and sabotaging police stations as well as looting weapons from them and damaging public facilities, ....

  • MB involved in recent violence – interior minister - 3 Cairo

    Date: 2014-01-02 13:56:20 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:65 - ID:475346

    Security forces directed several successful strikes against these elements, leading to identifying those behind the December bombing of the Daqahlia security HQ, which left 16 persons killed, including 14 policemen, and many others injured, the ....

  • Medical service is not affected with partial strike of doctors - official

    Date: 2014-01-02 13:52:18 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:64 - ID:475444

    BANHA, Egypt, Jan 2 (MENA) - Undersecretary of the Health Ministry in Qalubiya Governorate Zakaria Abd-Rabou said that medical services were not affected by the strike of doctors staged in a number of governorates on Wednesday. The coming phase ....

  • Death of student at Azhar University by MB bullets

    Date: 2014-01-02 13:50:36 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:63 - ID:475284

    FAYYOUM, Egypt, Jan 2 (MENA) – A freshman student of the Faculty of Islamic Studies at Al-Azhar University died on Thursday, succumbing to a gunshot wound he sustained in the head while he was inside the campus after refusing to heed threats by ....

  • Agriculture minister halts investigations against bank workers

    Date: 2014-01-02 13:39:14 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:61 - ID:475356

    CAIRO, Jan 2 (MENA) - Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Ayman Abu Hadid ordered on Thursday to stop internal investigations being conducted with employees of the agricultural bank for expressing their opinions on social communication ....

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