تحالف "WPP" الفائز بتنظيم حفل "القناة " يضع خطة ترويجية في أكثر من 27 دولة

حفل افتتاح قناةالسويس قديماً 

تكلفة حفل الافتتاح تصل لـ30 مليون دولار والدولة لن تتحمل أي تكاليف

الشركة الفائزة تعد إحدى الشركات الرائدة فى التسويق والإتصالات عالمياً

لقاءات فى وسائل الإعلام العالمى وإصدار عملة تذكارية للمشروع

عدد كبير من المنصات على الضفة الغربية لمجرى القناة

عدًا تنازليًا بمطار القاهرة والعواصم الكبرى وأفلام وثائقية عن الإفتتاح

تقرير : فادى لبيب

أكد الفريق مهاب  مميش رئيس هيئة قناة السويس أن حفل افتتاح قناة السويس الجديدة لن يكلف ميزانية الدولة أى مبالغ مادية، كاشفاً عن فوز تحالف «WPP»  الذى يضم نحو 7 شركات، بتنفيذ حملة ترويجية ودعائية وتنظيم حفل الافتتاح، وذلك وفق مناقصة كان قد تم طرحها . منوهاً عن أرقام حسابات بنكية تحمل أسم «فرحة مصر » لتلقى مساهمات الراغبين فى دعم ومشاركة هذا الإحتفال فى من مؤسسات الدولة ورجال الأعمال والمستثمرين والشركات المساهمة فى الحفر، مؤكداً حرص القيادة السياسية على الحفاظ على مصرية وعالمية الحدث .

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? What if women in Egypt are more economically empowered

Scenario one In this scenario, traditional measures are taken such as awareness campaigns and flexible work regulations for women: Women’s participation rate in the private sector increases, where they are hired according to equal opportunities and merit. Increased women participation in the labor market will positively impact GDP growth.  Higher share of women in the wage bill will increase family income and improve standards of living.  The Egyptian Center for Economic Studies - ECES Scenario two In this scenario, additional innovative policies are applied such as targeted support to women entrepreneurs: In addition to private sector involvement, more women become self-employed and entrepreneurs. Women’s participation rate (currently at 23 percent) becomes closer to that of men (72 percent), potentially increasing GDP by around 30 percent. In addition to an increased share in wage bill, women’s share in profit generation increases, with positive spillovers such as more innovation and creativity, which would help generate more profit for women.

Cosying up to the Russian bear…and to other titans

It is no secret that the greatest challenge facing Egypt at this point in time is to rebuild its economy which took a harsh bashing in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprising in January 2011. The year-long presidency of President Sisi which began 8 June 2014 has seen aggressive moves on that front. The launching of the New Suez Canal megaproject in August 2014, new laws and an investment-friendly climate, and the Egypt Economic Conference last March represent significant steps on the path of economic revival. Recent State visits by President Sisi to Russia, Germany, and Hungary have seen valuable trade deals signed with firms in these countries. And last week saw the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement (TFTA) signed between the East African Community, Southern African Development Community and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). After four years of negotiations to establish a framework for tariff preferences and other commitments, the free trade agreement by the three African economic blocs stands as the launch of a potentially game-changing common market spanning the continent, supporters say ... more informatian | wataninet

RUSSIAN HELICOPTERS IS BOOSTING SALES & SERVICE IN THE LE EAST, KEEN ON NEWMIDD PROJECTS IN EGYPT

WORLD LEADING HELICOPTER MANUFACTURER PLANS NEW EGYPTIAN SERVICE CENTER TO OPEN IN 2017

Cairo, Egypt 11 June 2015 - Russian Helicopters - the world’s 4^th largest helicopter maker - is negotiating new deals and expanding horizons.  Egypt and Russia are currently discussing large-scale cooperation projects resulting from the“Trade and Industrial Dialogue – ‘Russia-Egypt’”, which was recently held in Cairo.   At the closing press conference, Russian Helicopters CEO Alexander Mikheev discussed the importance of cooperation with Egypt in terms of sales, as well as the potential for manufacturing and assembly of helicopters in Egypt:

The Qalaa Holdings Scholarship Foundation Announces Ninth Annual Class of Scholarship Recipients

Qalaa Holdings remains committed to providing Egyptian youth with unparalleled opportunities to pursue graduate studies abroad at some of the world’s most prestigious universities. The 2015-2016 class of scholars includes 17 students representing 6 governorates throughout Egypt 

The Qalaa Holdings Scholarship Foundation (QHSF), Egypt’s largest private-sector funded scholarship program, has to date awarded 138 Egyptian students full scholarships to pursue master’s-level studies in the United States and Europe at top-tier universities on the condition that they return to Egypt to work in their chosen field following the completion of their studies

On with the new Suez Canal

It does not seem so long ago that Egyptians were all so fired up over the prospect of building a new Suez Canal that they managed to come up with EGP64 billion in a mere eight days to finance it. But even more amazing was the fact announced by Hisham Ramez, Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), that some EGP27 billion of the total sum raised had come from outside the banking sector, meaning that Egyptians had dug into their personal savings to finance the project. That was less than a year ago, when the CBE issued investment certificates to raise funds for the mega project, and they sold out in a few day
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? Where did all that money come from

Suez Canal development project

New unit at children cancer hospital to honour founder

A new section of 60 hospital beds has been inaugurated at the Children Cancer Hospital, better known in Egypt as 57357. The new section was opened in a celebration held on Saturday 21 March to mark Mothers Day and commemorate the hospital’s founder Ola Ghabbour 1960 – 2013

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After the elation, the real challenge

“We have a great responsibility towards Egypt. It is a great thing to have a visionary leader and strong-willed people. The nation, the leader and the people must join hands to build our country.” ...

Hans-Hermann Ecke new General Manager of "DEA" Egypt ​​​​​​​​​

The new General Manager for Egypt is Dr Hans-Hermann Ecke, who is responsible for the business of the Egyptian subsidiary of DEA Deutsche ErdoelAG based in Cairo since the beginning of March

I am looking forward to the upcoming tasks in Egypt, where DEA has already been part of the oil and gas industry for more than 40 years,” says Dr Hans-Hermann Ecke, General Manager of DEA Egypt. “With our Disouq natural gas project, we have recently been able to more than double our oil and gas production in Egypt.Being the ..

Up with the economy

As Egypt gears up to the Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) to be held in the coastal resort of Sharm al-Sheikh from 13 – 15 March, Egyptians have been holding high hopes that this conference would work to attract the foreign investment needed to get the economy up from the beating it took in the wake of the Arab Spring uprising in January 2011. Back then Egypt had a pre-Arab Spring growth rate close to an annual 7 per cent and had foreign currency reserves of some USD36 billion. Today, Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) figures place the reserves at USD15.4 billion and, according to Head of the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics Abu-Bakr al-Guindi the growth rate has risen to 2.2 per cent after its all-time low of 0.4 per cent after the Arab Spring in 2011

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Egypt’s new logistics center .. An international hub

Dr Khaled Hanafy

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The 2011 Arab Spring uprising and its tumultuous consequences brought Egypt’s economy to near-collapse. Today the country needs to speed up development and kickstart the economy, and the government has announced several mega-projects intended to do just that. The New Suez Canal project is already underway, and a logistics centre for cereal and grain envisioned in the Mediterranean port of Damietta on Egypt’s northeast coast

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The art of driving investors away/ archive

“During the years of the pre-2011 Revolution regime of Hosni Mubarak, reputable companies and financial and banking institutions set up shop in Egypt, ” Economic and capital market expert Mustafa Badra told Watani. “Today, it is unfortunate that many of them are being sold off to foreign investors. Local investors, many of whom might have profited from the deals, are not buying

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Suez Canal development project

It has been nothing but political turmoil and economic decline in Egypt ever since the 25 January uprising in 2011, which brought down Egypt’s longtime president Hosni Mubarak and brought in Islamist power. The 33 million-strong corrective revolution on 30 June 2013 . resulted in the overthrow of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood (MB) regime and spearheaded political reform with a civic, consensual Constitution and prospects of presidential and parliamentary elections in the near future ...more informatian | wataninet

Egypt’s natural gas

Come July, Egyptians will have to sustain substantial price rises for electricity and gasoline. There’s no escaping the fact that the country is living through an unforeseen, foreboding energy crisis

 The problem first loomed in the wake of the Arab Spring Revolution in January 2011 with heated debate over low priced natural gas
exports to Israel and Jordan
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China, Egypt pledge cooperation on big construction projects

BEIJING, Dec 24 (Xinhua) -- China and Egypt on Wednesday pledged to promote bilateral

cooperation on big construction projects during the first China visit by President 
Abdel-Fattah Sisi

The pledge was made in the meeting between Premier Li Keqiang and Sisi in the Great Hall of the People

China is ready to make joint efforts with Egypt to push bilateral ties to a new high, Li said

Animals, too, have rights

As the world commemorates the centenary of WWI, Watani here honours some unsung war heroes: the warhorses. We commemorate the Englishwoman who cared for them and gave Egypt her first hospital for animals, The Brooke. This year, The Brooke marks 80 years in service of working animals in Egypt...     

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Getting smart on bread

I have no idea what anyone in the world would do if he finds a piece of bread lying on the ground but an Egyptian would bend, pick it up, kiss it, say a short prayer and lay it beside the wall lest anyone should step on it. Such is the reverence for bread in the Egyptian culture

Egyptians see bread as a gift from the Divine, the very substance of life; its name in Egyptian Arabic, eish, is literal for life. Bread is the main component of Egyptian diet; no food is eaten without bread and, while bread can do when no other food is attainable, no other food may do in place of bread 

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?Egypt’s public sector stronghold: Will it hold

So a significant portion—EGP85 billion—of the State subsidy that made the daily life of Egyptians tolerable and their State budget intolerable has been lifted. Prices spiralled almost out of control, and the pain of swallowing the bitter pill of serious economic reform is biting

That much is all-too-obvious in Egypt, but what is not so obvious is what the funds freed into the budget will be used for. It would be agonising for Egyptians should they find out that their sacrifice has been poured down the drain

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?What unemployment

Is unemployment in Egypt the real demon it has constantly been made to appear throughout the last decades, and which successive Egyptian governments were ? accused of failing to address

“Just give us the ‘young unemployed’, and we’ll
 provide the jobs.” This was the reply of Egyptian industrialists and businessmen to a demand by President Sisi that they should provide jobs for Egypt’s young unemployed. The reply was flabbergasting since it challenged a ‘myth’ propagated by official figures that place unemployment at over 13 per cent

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Women as breadwinners

women in Egypt work beside their husbands

How do Egyptian families fare if the adult male members are unable or unwilling to work, or if they are simply not around?

It is customary for Egyptian women to work, and in contrast to many other parts of the world where a woman’s place was traditionally regarded as being in the home—children, church and kitchen—it is considered neither demeaning nor indicative of neglecting her family. According to their background, women in Egypt work beside their husbands in the fields; in private or government offices; or at the highest professional levels. Women have no problem finding work; and when they find themselves having to feed their families they have no qualms about accepting any job on offer. According to the industrialist Louis Bishara, women are more dedicated and committed workers and so employers frequently 

prefer them to men

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