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Chinese tourism is growing fast but as usual the politicians take some promising signs and turn them into a tidal wave (‘shortly’) that will save tourism in Egypt. Read the following article together...
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Egyptian ministers seem to have a million a year attached to everything. Pity no one holds them to account. Here is another million a year promise from 2014:
One of MT's post got me thinking. He was saying about the ambulance and fire services here, their lack of equipment and apparent training.
Not long ago in the UK men, and it was only men then, were...
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I couldn't agree more MT you must get the foundations right and I'm sorry to say that the appropriate dress and training for ambulance men and fire fighters wouldn't be part of my foundations.
A bridge over the Red Sea that separates Egypt and Saudi Arabia is to be established, Saudi's King Salman said in Cairo on Friday in a press conference with President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi.
El-Sisi...
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I wonder when Sisi will do something that your average Egyptian will actually applaud.
The World Competitiveness Report for 2015 on tourism rates Egypt the 83rd most competitive tourist destination in the world and this is near the very undesirable Azerbaijan.
Their detailed...
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Iv'e been opposed to tourists of any shape or form anywhere,
many are called few are chosen as in my book where one leads others tend to follow ,
it's a right bugger really, one tries no matter...
Implementation of VAT to generate EGP 35bn in FY 2016/2017: Ministry of Finance official
The government is expected to collect EGP 35bn from applying the value-added tax (VAT) in fiscal year (FY)...
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The article is thin on detail but I'm sure that the government remembers the food riots (80's I think) which nearly brought a previous government down.
I suppose I could have posted this in any one of a number of sections of L4U and finally decided on here. I had been searching for something else, but as often happens, one search led to another and...
Upon the request of many MPs in a plenary session on Monday, the speaker of Egypt's parliament Ali Abdel-Al said that there should be new legislation aimed at prosecuting certain users on Facebook...
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Parents who allow their children unlimited and unsupervised access to the internet do their offspring no service.
It's not just Facebook either. Plenty of time-wasting trivia on the internet...
Posted: by Jez C Self - 30th March 2016 7:04am (facebook)
I was walking along with my camera, as I have been doing for four years.
I went to get the minibus home from Dahar when this odd looking...
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Relatives who after all these years, finally decided to visit me in Luxor, have all backed out. :( It is too dangerous. When they told friends and collegues that they were planning a trip to Egypt,...
Orphans Day is a national celebration in Egypt that falls on the first Friday of April. Ahram Online visited an orphanage celebrating at a park in Cairo.
At least 13 Egyptian policemen were killed in the Sinai peninsula when Islamic militants fired a mortar round at a security checkpoint in the city of Arish, security and medical sources said on...
At least 19 people have been killed and 25 injured after a bus filled with Egyptian pilgrims crashed in Saudi Arabia, according to Egyptian media reports.
Following years of disorder and neglect at Cairo’s great pyramids, Egypt is launching a renovation program to make the area safer, cleaner and easier to navigate for tourists, and more secure for its...
Tuesday marked one year since Egypt concluded a massive economic conference in the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, a major event on which the government of President Abdel Fattah...
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Quite honestly it is very difficult to point to any international agreement on either trade or investment in Egypt that is a pure deal. Such deals reported in the Egyptian media in recent times can...
The leaked documents are the records of the IS General Administration of Borders and are comprised of forms filed out by potential recruits who enter the militant group’s claimed territories.
The...
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10% of the groups foreign suicide bombers are Egyptian, meaning that the remaining 90% are not and what percentage of suicide bombers are what Da'esh considers foreign. Statistics don't trust them....
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