Egyptian Council Calls To Ban Corporal Punishment For Children : At a conference of Egypt's National Council for the Mother and Child, it was decided to prepare a bill banning corporal punishment at school as well as at home.This follows the death of a Alexandria pupil following a beating by his teacher.
The math teacher, Haitham Nabeel Abdelhamid, who worked at Saad Othman school, was furious because Islam Amro had not finished his homework. After using a ruler to punish him, the teacher is alleged to have taken the young boy outside the classroom and hit him violently in his stomach.
The young pupil fainted and later died in hospital of heart failure.
Media shackled in Egypt trial of singer slaying: An Egyptian judge issued strict guidelines Monday limiting what could be reported about the trial of a well-connected Egyptian tycoon accused of ordering the murder of a Lebanese pop star.
After throwing television cameras out of the courtroom Sunday, Judge al-Muhammadi Qunsuwa allowed reporters to attend Monday's session - as long as they didn't have mobile phones and audio recorders. But he restricted what they could report to vague procedural information and the verdict.The trial of Hisham Talaat Moustafa has ignited a media frenzy across Egypt and the Middle East, where many were stunned by the arrest of the prominent real estate mogul and lawmaker. The case crosses borders with an accused Egyptian tycoon, a dead Lebanese singer and a slaying taking place in a luxury Dubai high rise.
Moustafa is a close friend of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's son, Gamal, and part of a powerful group long seen as above the law in Egypt's strict, class-based society. more>>
Dr. Zahi Hawass receives Honor: Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, was honored for “his dynamic and committed leadership in developing and implementing innovative management plans to care for and protect Egypt’s world famous ancient attractions, including several UNESCO World Heritage Sites.” A short video at the ceremony featured Dr. Hawass on-site talking about some of his dramatic discoveries. Accepting the award on behalf of Dr. Hawass, was Mohamed Shawfik, Chairman and Managing Director, Misr Travel, Egypt.
Mohamed Shawfik, Chairman and Managing Director, Misr Travel, Egypt, accepting the award on behalf of Dr. Hawass
more>>Egypt plan to green Sahara worries neighbours: It looks like a mirage but the lush fields of cauliflower, apricot trees and melon growing among a vast stretch of sand north of Cairo's pyramids is all too real — proof of Egypt's determination to turn its deserts green.
While climate change and land overuse help many deserts across the world advance, Egypt is slowly greening the sand that covers almost all of its territory as it seeks to create more space for its growing population.Tarek el-Kowmey (45) points proudly to the banana trees he grows on what was once Sahara sands near the Desert Development Centre, north of Cairo, where scientists experiment with high-tech techniques to make Egypt's desert bloom.
"All of this used to be just sand," he said. "Now we can grow anything." more>>
Egypt: The New IT Outsourcing Destination: "Egypt has built an entire ecosystem to support the country's ICT industry. The availability of a qualified multilingual workforce, excellent infrastructure and political stability has all helped attract companies to invest in Egypt," says Dr Hazem Abdelazim, CEO for ITIDA.
With some unique advantages such as a multilingual workforce (fluent in English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch); lower labor costs than in surrounding low-cost regions; time zone proximity with the West; and relative familiarity with Western culture over traditional outsourcing destinations like India and China, Egypt's IT sector is forecasted to grow from $889 million in 2006 to $1.3 billion in 2011.
The Egyptian government offers tax breaks and other financial incentives to attract international companies to set up call/service center and business process outsourcing (BPO) operations in Egypt. It also supports the training of staff to handle multinational clients and maintain global standardized work ethics. more>>
Egypt Blacklists Rogue Saudi Employers: Egypt is prohibiting its nationals from working for several Saudi companies, which Cairo says, mistreat their employees. The Ministry of Manpower and
Immigration has blacklisted 26 Saudi companies in the public and private sector, according to the Egyptian daily Al-Ma'sri Al-Yawm.The latest development was sparked by a case of two Egyptian doctors who have been sentenced to prison and lashes in Saudi Arabia on the grounds of medical malpractice.
Egyptian doctors are calling on Cairo to sever diplomatic ties with the Saudi kingdom after Riyadh refused to accede to the demands of human-rights organizations and professional associations to pardon the doctors. more>>
Egypt's Spinsters United against Social Stigmas: Aawanis Men Agl Al-Taghier, or Spinsters for Change, is a social group founded by Egyptian journalist Youmna Mokhtar, in an effort to combat the social stigmas attached with the label.
“I started the group to initiate a dialogue among women to discuss how we can change that social [perception],” Mokhtar, 27, told Daily News Egypt. The group is against the social labeling and ill-treatment of unmarried women and aims to change the negative social categorization of single women.
“Although the group is called Aawanis for Change, I am against the label. Still, we used it to name the group because it is the term people use,” Mokhtar explains. “First, we thought of calling it Girls for Change but it was not going to deliver the same meaning,” she laughs. more>>
Facebook Youth challenge Egypt’s ruling party with cyber-conference: Egyptian activists and opposition leaders held a cyber-conference in Cairo last weekend to draw attention away from the ruling National Democratic Party's official conference. It is yet another example of how determined Egypt's so-called 'Facebook Youth' is in helping to spearhead new forms of dissent.
The slogan for last weekend's cyber-conference was Ma tsada'ash or Don't Believe. R.R.
The cyber-conference was the first of its kind and a significant political milestone because no one had dared to organize an opposition conference at the same time as the ruling party conference.
At its core were a small but powerful group of opposition activists and heads of opposition parties, including cyber-activists associated with the 'Facebook Youth' and April 6 movements that came to the forefront after they helped call for a nationwide strike on April 6 against rising commodity prices and soaring wages. more>>
Woman protester in Egypt killed by bulldozer: Cairo - A woman was killed and another injured in the southern city of Qena after they stood in the way of a bulldozer that was demolishing a home built without a permit, a security official said on Monday.
The two women, whose family had moved onto the land and built a home there, were protesting against the demolition, which followed a court order.
Housing regulations are regularly flouted in Egypt, where portions of neighbourhoods were constructed without permits and people often illegally add storeys to their homes, sometimes causing building collapses. - Sapa-AFP
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