http://heyafrica.com en-us News Search Results heyafrica.com Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:58:12 GMT http://getlara.com /africa/egypt/article/news-in-brief-4 Egypt conference on future of chemical industries The National Research Center (NRC) will hold the third International Conference of Chemical Industries Research Division on Dec. 16 to discuss the role and the future of chemical industries. The three-day conference is held under the auspices of NRC Chairman Hani El-Nazer, who said that the conference will be attended by more than 30 scientists and experts from various Arab and foreign nations. The event will discuss more than 125 research... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT /africa/egypt/article/news-in-brief-4 /africa/egypt/article/new-xbox-360-scene-it-game-a-crowd-pleaser The "Scene It?" trivia game series may have started as a DVD-based board game, but the franchise is really coming into its own on the Xbox 360 console.Microsoft's "Scene It?: Box Office Smash" ($60 bundled with four "Big Button" controllers; $40 standalone) builds on the game's first Xbox 360 edition with new question genres, faster-paced gameplay and the ability to appear as your newly created Xbox Experience avatar.The party game allows up to four local players to compete through three... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT /africa/egypt/article/new-xbox-360-scene-it-game-a-crowd-pleaser /africa/egypt/article/more-online-journalists-than-print-journalists-behind-bars-cpj WASHINGTON: In a reflection of the digital age, more online journalists are jailed around the world than journalists from any other medium, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported on Thursday.The New York-based media watchdog group, in its annual census of imprisoned journalists, said that as of Dec. 1, a total of 125 journalists were behind bars, two fewer than at the same point in 2007.It said 56 of the imprisoned journalists were considered online journalists - bloggers,... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT /africa/egypt/article/more-online-journalists-than-print-journalists-behind-bars-cpj /africa/egypt/article/french-headscarf-ban-no-discrimination-says-european-rights-court STRASBOURG: Europe's top rights court ruled Thursday that a French school ban on headscarves was not a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.In a case involving two French Muslim girls who had been expelled from school after refusing to remove their scarves during sports classes, the European Court of Human Rights held unanimously that the decision did not discriminate.The applicants, Belgin Dogru and Esma-Nur Kervanci, are French nationals who were born in 1987 and 1986... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT /africa/egypt/article/french-headscarf-ban-no-discrimination-says-european-rights-court /africa/egypt/article/weekly-stock-review-moving-between-red-and-green-egypt-stocks-make-slight-improvement CAIRO: The stock market zigzagged throughout the week to post a mix of green and red, mirroring performance of regional and global markets.Overall, Egypt's benchmark CASE30 index inched up a hair, closing the week 0.38 percent higher to 4,059.08 points. The market jumped Sunday on a fourth consecutive day of gains, tracking a rally in Gulf markets triggered by shares selling on attractive levels. The index climbed 4 percent to 4,205.86 points on a very low turnover of LE493.2 million ($89.28... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT /africa/egypt/article/weekly-stock-review-moving-between-red-and-green-egypt-stocks-make-slight-improvement /africa/egypt/article/tamim-press-ban-case-adjourned-till-january-as-journalists-protest CAIRO: Five journalists being tried for violating the press ban on the Suzanne Tamim murder case were present at the South Cairo Misdemeanor Court Dec. 4 to see their case adjourned to Jan. 8.The journalists, from Al-Masry Al-Youm and Al-Wafd newspapers including their two chief editors were being tried for violating the press ban on the details of the Tamim murder case. Al-Masry Al-Youm editor Magdy El-Gallad along with reporters Yousri El-Badri and Farouk El-Dessouki had already been taken... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT /africa/egypt/article/tamim-press-ban-case-adjourned-till-january-as-journalists-protest /africa/egypt/article/presidential-wedding Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT /africa/egypt/article/presidential-wedding /africa/egypt/article/mobinil-confident-of-further-growth CAIRO: MobiNil, Egypt's largest mobile phone operator by subscribers, said it would continue to experience robust growth despite the global economic crisis."Our third quarter results beat expectations, and we expect that end of year results would match analysts' expectations," MobiNil Chairman Alex Shalaby told a conference Wednesday to mark reaching 20 million subscribers."Up till now, we are doing very well," he said, adding that it is hard to predict the future and MobiNil's performance... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT /africa/egypt/article/mobinil-confident-of-further-growth /africa/egypt/article/links-of-interest-santa-claus-is-coming What better way to meet up with Santa Claus than pay a visit to www.northpole.com? Young visitors to this cute, cozy, and Christmassy spot can look forward to Santa's personalized stories and answers to questions like "How does Santa get up and down my chimney?" Mail services also exist to send letters to Santa (expect a reply!) and e-cards to friends, along with games, karaoke, and more.For those that are just not up for all that jazz, www.someecards.com may be of some consolation, if not... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT /africa/egypt/article/links-of-interest-santa-claus-is-coming /africa/egypt/article/whirlwind-through-london It's never too late" is my travel motto. As a notoriously bad vacation planner, my trips abroad are usually whipped up at a whim never more than two weeks in advance - but that doesn't mean I can't make the most of it.Although such travel whims could seem a bit too extravagant in the credit crunch season, if you've been reasonable enough to have kept a small stash under the bed then you definitely owe yourself a treat - and a memorable retreat - from grueling office politics and depressing... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT /africa/egypt/article/whirlwind-through-london