The Ministry Manpower and Immigration seeks to apply a minimum wage rate of LE2,000 for private sector workers, Manpower Minister, Mohamed Saafan, said in an interview Saturday on Extra News channel. Production and profit rates increase when the worker...اقرأ المزيد
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrived in Tanzania on Monday in a 4-day tour to African countries including Rwanda, Gabon and Chad. The tour comes as part of an initiative to strengthen ties with African countries as part of its foreign policy and keenness...اقرأ المزيد
In a small studio littered with empty cigarette packets in Egypt’s second city, Alexandria, Abdelrahman al-Habrouk sits hunched over a sheet of paper making portraits with tobacco. The cigarettes fuel his art; he breaks them in half, painstakingly traces...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt announced executive regulations on Sunday for a new industrial licensing law it says will slash bureaucracy and decrease the waiting time for new projects, reforms it hopes will draw badly needed investment. Egypt’s economy has struggled since...اقرأ المزيد
Minister of Investment and International Cooperation, Sahr Nasr, said on Sunday, that the ministry allocated $1.5 billion from the Arab funds to carry out development projects in sectors all over North Sinai. Sinai development is the best way to eliminate...اقرأ المزيد
The Archbishopric of Egypt’s upper governorate of Minya released a statement on Sunday calling on the government to reopen the closed Coptic Church in ‘Kedwan’ village in Minya. The statement made it clear Copts in Minya are angry that the authorities...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt’s health ministry has punished six medics who took selfies in front of a deadly train wreck by transferring them to a remote part of the country, it said Saturday , following an online uproar. Two trains collided Friday near the Mediterranean...اقرأ المزيد
East Alexandria prosecutors ordered the 15 day detention of the two train drivers involved in a train collision Friday, a few kilometers from Sidi Gaber station, along with their two aides, pending an investigation on Sunday. Other employees of the two...اقرأ المزيد
According to official statistics, the total number of railway accidents from 2006 until 2016 was 12,236. The highest accident rates were in 2009 and reached 1,577 accidents, while the lowest were in 2012 with 447 accidents, due to the traffic suspensions...اقرأ المزيد
The death toll from an Alexandria train collision has reached 42, said Sherif Wadei, advisor to the Minister of Health. He added 133 others were injured. Wadei told MENA that 12 victims were in a critical condition. The injuries ranged between abrasions,...اقرأ المزيد