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Egypt says it will raise electricity prices for households and businesses by an average of 15 percent, the latest in a series of austerity measures aimed at boosting the economy.
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Don't talk about your Leccie prices, here we have the biggest hikes throughout the EU at almost 13%. Our bill on average is 140€ every 2 months. What is the average bill in Luxor now following this...
Google celebrated on Sunday, May 26 the discovery of the Khufu ship in 1954 with a Google Doodle. It is considered one of the world's oldest and largest ships.
Now, I know we have all had it pretty easy here over the years, subsidies here and there.
Now seems the time we all have to start to 'coughing-up... spluttering-up more like....
El Sisi is getting...
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The Saudis are well and truly on top of that. New cities that are dedicated solar powered and even have aircon in the streets all powered by convection and air pressure differences.. Clever stuff......
‘The 2016 crash of a Paris-Cairo EgyptAir flight that killed all 66 people on board was a result of a lack of maintenance and the plane should never have taken off, according to an...
Geerte Hofstede is a major Dutch sociologist/management theorist who has studied Egypt and many other countries. Unlike others who just look at statistics he tries to identify the values and human...
This post is about someone well known to European-Luxor residents and the moral backbone – or something akin to a back-side – of Egypt. Beware of who your heroes are.
Farag...
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With the sphinx avenue my second reference to the left of the avenue should have been to the right - a political direction well known to Farag, on an extreme day.
Regini was reportedly arrested and beaten by Egyptian police because they thought he was a British spy. The 28-year-old Italian student was on an exchange program in Egypt while studying at Cambridge...
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I can’t see that an overheard (and presumably unrecorded) conversation adds much to this sad saga.
The world at large has come to the conclusion (in the absence of any plausible alternative...
Climate change will kill us all if not fixed and will also kill trees and plants as well. However there is paradox with climate change maybe, at this stage, making bigger but more fragile/weaker...
The number of reported car accidents in Egypt fell by nearly a quarter last year, according to new figures from the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS).
Some 8,480...
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Many vehicle accidents - especially those not involving serious injury- go unreported so the statistical drop is meaningless.
Often one, or both, drivers will have been indulging in substance abuse...
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has raised the country’s minimum wage to 2,000 Egyptian pounds a month from 1,200 pounds, he said at an event on Saturday celebrating women.
Sisi said the...
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I still know many only getting 750Le a Month, so it looks like the Government don't do check-ups to see if the minimum wage is being implemented :(
Egypt just opened its first long-distance hiking trail and it’s stunning
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A NEW HIKING TRAIL just opened in Egypt. The 105-mile Red Sea Mountain Trail will be the first long-distance...
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Thanks.
Will keep an eye out on the Sinai standard of living but like most Egyptian stats they are terrified about any evidence of gaps in services or standard of living. The jobs you refer to are...
According to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah’s speech at the final session of the Arab and African Youth forum in Aswan, foreigners residing in Egypt are to be screened as part of the “100 Million...
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Bizarre proposal from Sisi.Is the testing of foreigners - 8 million a year - to be compulsory and where is the law to enforce that. After 50 years of stuff-ups in HepC and with 9-14 million infected,...
12 March 2019: A week ago, an official at the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced that banknotes with writings or scribbles are untradable, a step begged a question on the possibility of trading...
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Yes John I had that problem in Turkey too, It's financially better to withdraw cash from the ATM's in GB Pounds than Turkish Lira and although the banks refuse to take UK money with writing on quite...
This post is irrelevant to all the essential tourist questions – where do I get toilet paper, where do I eat and drink, why does my tour guide keep offering me members of...
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You dont change governments by voting, if you could then voting would be banned by Government..
Democracy is good, but its all an illusion... :br
**** *** the world bank and watch what happens....
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