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Pay rises for state workers and a drop in tax revenues caused a surge in the country's budget deficit last year, says finance minister.
Egypt's state budget deficit for 2011/12 was far higher than...
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Thats typical, so why bother about raising money for the coffers, if they go through all this just to cancel it then it will be impossible to raise money for the coffers at all...Wonders never seem...
Back to school: Morsi gets black marks from Egypt's teachers.
Dozens of Egyptian teachers protest in central Cairo, unimpressed by new allowances and threatening not to return to the classroom when...
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You pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Just one of the reasons for the state of Egypt's education system. Even as only a Casual Teacher in my state here in Oz, I can earn over $300 a day (but no other...
The Egyptian Paralympics team left to the London games last month with little public attention or anticipation. But after winning 15 medals for Egypt and breaking two world records, they returned as...
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Hear, hear!!!
Parties and groups including the Constitution Party, the Wasat Party, the Popular Current, the April 6 Youth Movement, and the yet to be registered Strong Egypt Party showed up...
The Public Transport Authority threatened Tuesday to stage an all-out coinciding with the start of the school year.
They demand that control of the PTA be transferred to the Transportation Ministry...
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Agree, Who2, this bloke is now starting to take the flack, for the weeks and month following the Revolution and the lost time that should have been used to get things going. when you hear these...
31 pct drop in traffic accidents during 2011 probably due to months of military curfews following January 25 Revolution, says official statistics body.
There were 16,830 traffic accidents in Egypt...
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At least the streets would be empty Tony, and shoppers could go about their business in peace :lol: :lol:
On a typical evening at the Spicy Cafe in Hurghada, camera phones snapped shots of an unlikely pair: a local man robed in a white galabeya and a Russian tourist clad in a short dress and pumps,...
Egyptian tour guides protest outside the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo on Sunday, demanding better pay and conditions after a year of turmoil for the hospitality sector.
We want tourist...
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Of course the company is going to recommend a good tip for the guides – they pay them peanuts and expect them to be servile (or charming) enough to warrant big tips, or desperate enough to chase big...
Despite rich past, history fails to interest Egyptian students
Fatma Keshk
Thu, 30/08/2012 - 15:08
Instilling a sense of pride of the country’s past in the young is a priority for history educators...
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Fair enough, WI, I was just trying to help restore harmony. :) The issues the two of you are arguing about may not seem inconsequential to either of you I daresay, but from the outside looking in...
As Saudi-Egypt bridge looks likely to get the green light, environmentalists see red.
Environmentalists have urged caution after a US$3 billion bridge project linking Saudi Arabia to Egypt seems...
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Brilliant, that'll be fun is it at all windy out there, so jeep, supplies, change faith and I'm on my way to Mecca, sounds good business to me ferrying the faithful, so think Little Chef...or for you...
Loose security not solely to blame for attacks in Egypt's hospitals.
While calls are made to improve security in Egypt's hospitals amid near-daily attacks, doctors point to the root cause: the...
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Increased security,additional funding,better conditions and maybe a campaign to raise awareness of the sterling job that the medical profession do would not go amiss either.
Many doctors nowadays do...
Baksheesh and social tipping points
By Khaled Diab
Egypt’s ‘baksheesh’ culture helps poor people get by and maintains relative social peace, but it encourages subservience.
21 January 2011
One...
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Yes, you are correct Stan, I forgot to keep abreast of their disasterous investment made and lost at the turn of the year 2000, I wonder if divine intervention at that period played any part.
How do you convert/compare Egyptian land measurements into the local unit? I know they use metric, but what about karats (sp?). I am trying to tell Egyptians who asked, about Australia's (and the...
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Ooh, too late in the day here to get my head around that right now, my brain hurts! But shukran gezilan TC, I'll re-cogitate in the morning. Certainly looks like it will do the job. :wi And it's...
The tourism sector has lost LE1 billion per month this year as compared to the same period in 2010, said Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou on Thursday. He added that the ministry is studying plans...
The recent thread about Crop Circles has reminded me of something I have been meaning to ask for a long time. When you fly to Luxor there are many circles visablle from the air. They would appear to...
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the desert, it's very very big, no flies, no mosquitoes, not much of anything really, but when there is something, It in itself seems big very very big, due to the lack of anything else of...
Ahmed Idris, the investigating judge appointed by the justice minister to review cases of former officials who had acquired state-owned land, has reached an agreement with the defendants after they...
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I can imagine these offers being accepted. 2.4 billion is a lot of money and, after all, the 'blood money' thing still applies here, doesn't it?
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