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  • Food exports council eyes 20 bln EGP by 2018

    Date: 2013-12-30 11:37:38 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:62 - ID:469438

    CAIRO, Dec 30 (MENA) - The exports council of the food industries chamber has set a five-year plan to increase exports from 6 billion pounds to 20 billion by 2018. The plan eyes participation for more Egyptian companies in foreign exhibitions, ....

  • Egyptian embassy calls on expats in Saudi Arabia to partake in referendum

    Date: 2013-12-30 11:36:33 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Egypt - SN:61 - ID:469477

    RIYADH, Dec 30 (MENA) – The Egyptian embassy here called on Egyptian citizens, who have registered their names in voting lists, to participate in the upcoming referendum on the nation’s constitution, which will take place on January 8-12 for ....

  • Polio vaccination campaign costs EPG 30 million – Health ministry

    Date: 2013-12-30 11:35:28 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:60 - ID:469332

    CAIRO, Dec 30 (MENA) - Information Adviser to the Ministry of Health and Population Ahmed Kamel said Monday the national vaccination campaign against polio cost the government EPG 30 million, targeting about 14 million children. In a statement to ....

  • Court bans unapproved protests on campus

    Date: 2013-12-30 11:29:26 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:59 - ID:469476

    CAIRO, Dec 30 (MENA) – A Cairo court for urgent matters banned organizing protests in universities without getting a prior consent from the university’s president. A lawyer has filed the lawsuit to ban all protests that have not been approved by ....

  • Coal is not suitable source of energy - minister

    Date: 2013-12-30 11:28:08 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:58 - ID:469432

    CAIRO, Dec 30 (MENA) - Minister of State for Environment Affairs Lalia Iskander said coal is not a suitable source of energy in Egypt now that the state of lawlessness prevails the country. US began to get rid of the electricity stations that ....

  • Egypt signs oil exploration agreements with British firm

    Date: 2013-12-30 11:25:03 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:57 - ID:469391

    CAIRO, Dec 30 (MENA) - Egypt signed on Monday two oil and gas exploration agreements with Dana Petroleum of Britain at investments of $24 million. Under the accords, the British firm's arm in Egypt will explore oil and gas in two concessions in ....

  • Ambitious economic activation plan for 2014 - minister

    Date: 2013-12-30 11:23:40 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:56 - ID:469397

    CAIRO, Dec 30 (MENA) – Despite the economic slowdown in Egypt in 2013 with the budget deficit reaching 240 billion EGP and trade balance deficit standing at 32 billion EGP, the Egyptian government has prepared an ambitious plan for activating the ....

  • Brotherhood students stage march at Zaqaziq University

    Date: 2013-12-30 11:22:59 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:54 - ID:469387

    ZAQZIQ, Dec 30 (MENA) - Scores of the Muslim Brotherhood students staged on Monday a march at Zaqaziq University to demand the release of their detained colleagues. The students marched through the university campus, chanting slogans against the ....

  • Heavy gunfire reported at Congolese international airport, military base

    Date: 2013-12-30 11:15:02 GMT - Democratic Republic of Congo - Africa - SN:55 - ID:469427

    KINSHASA, Dec 30 (MENA) - Heavy gunfire was reported Monday at the international airport and a military base in Kinshasa. Reporters from Congolese state television RTNC were taken hostage by armed youths, RFI reported. Earlier, Heavy gunfire ....

  • 12 conscripts wounded in road accident in northwestern coastal highway

    Date: 2013-12-30 11:07:48 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:53 - ID:469449

    ALEXANDRIA, Dec 30 (MENA) - Twelve central security conscripts were wounded in a collision between a police truck and a trailer at Kilo 37 of the northwestern coastal highway on Monday. The police truck was on the way to carry 25 conscripts from ....

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