Sify (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Pharoah the cat has survived the 3, 000-mile voyage from Port Said in Egypt to the British port of Felixstowe after it was found crammed in a container on board the MV Maersk Batam.
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
With cheap labour, investment incentives and unrestricted exports, one Chinese textile group has turned to Egypt as an ideal location to produce its ready-made garments, beating stiff competition at home. The Chinese-owned Nile Textile Group has set up shop in the Port Said free zone, overlooking the north entrance of the Suez Canal, and developed an industrial estate now hiring 600 workers, 20 percent...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
By AMR BARGISI AND SAMUEL TADROS Today Egypt will play host to the 56th Congress of Liberal International (LI), which bills itself as the world federation of liberal and progressive democratic parties. Among the nearly 70 parties represented by LI are Britain's Liberal Democrats, Germany's Free Democrats and the Liberal Party of Canada. In the U.S., LI's Web site cites the National Democratic Institute...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Brazil and Czech Republic are through to the last 16 at Egypt 2009 after the 2007 finalists successfully subdued their South American rivals in a drab 0-0 draw in Port Said. The stalemate might have disappointed the 17,000 fans who had turned up expecting another Sele�ão goalfest, but there was much to admire in the defensive masterclass delivered by Jakub Dovalil's resolute Czechs.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
The Angolan ambassador to Egypt, Pedro Hendrick Vaal Neto, Sunday in Port Said, Egypt, met with the local governor, Musthafa Abdel Latif, with whom he analysed the strategy for twinning that city and Angola's northern Cabinda.
Reporters sans frontières (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the size of the fine that a court in the northeastern city of Port Said imposed on blogger Tamer Mabrouk on appeal today as a result of a defamation lawsuit by a private company, Trust Chemical Co., over information about pollution that he posted online. See his testimony (in Arabic) .
All Africa (Free subscription) | 04/06/2009
Nigeria's Flying Eagles yesterday bagged an easy draw for the FIFA U-20 World Cup scheduled to take place in Egypt between September 24 and October 16 this year in the five host cities of Alexandria, Ismailia, Cairo, Port Said, and Suez.
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