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The US branch of consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is planning to offer an initiative to help develop the public sector in Egypt, said Ali al-Selmy, the deputy prime minister for political affairs and public enterprise minister, on Sunday...
The Cairo Criminal Court has announced the rationale of verdicts concerning Ezz, Suez, Beshay and Tiba steel companies. In the case, former steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz was sentenced to ten years in prison and fined LE660 million. Former Trade and...
The cabinet's Social Development Fund allocated millions of Egyptian pounds to organizations run by former First Lady Suzanne Mubarak and her son Gamal, documents obtained by Al-Masry Al-Youm reveal. The payments were made even though the...
Central Bank Governor Farouq al-Oqda said on Wednesday that the economy needs three to five years to achieve high growth rates, and that Egypt could become like the Asian Tigers with hard work and perseverance. The governor had asked the Gold Mining...
Statistics of the Commercial Representation Authority showed a considerable increase in the trade balance between Egypt and France, which has reached one billion euros from January until April 2011, corresponding to a 36.4 percent increase, compared...
AMMAN - Egypt and Jordan have settled a gas price dispute and are focusing on ensuring a continuous gas supply to the latter, according to Egyptian Ambassador to Jordan Aboul-Ata Amr. In a statement to Al-Masry Al-Youm, Amr said Jordan understands...
A source close to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the fund cancelled a visit to Cairo scheduled for July after the ruling military council rejected foreign loan offers so as not to laden future Egyptian governments with debt. But the...
The United States did not respond to requests from the Egyptian government to freeze the bank accounts of members of the Mubarak regime, said Assistant Foreign Minister al-Husseiny Abdel Wahab. He also said the Foreign Ministry is keen on chasing...
Al-Masry Al-Youm has obtained 30 secret documents relating to the gas export deal struck between Israel and the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, some of which implicate former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman in arranging the deal. The...
Parliament’s planning and budget committee asked the government this week to explain the recent increase in the number of registered government employees, especially in light of the fact that all government appointments were halted in 1999....

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Lost in the reports about the Obama administration’s announcement of "limited contacts" with the Muslim Brotherhood in June was any news of an important meeting at the same time with another group of influential Egyptians: young...
Why won't the government come clean about Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieldin’s recent decision to accept a managerial position at the World Bank? Can't it admit that the minister himself sought the new appointment? Or is the...