Muhyiddin and Rachid shaking hands after their meeting at Muhyiddin’s office in Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia and Egypt should encourage their business sectors to make use of the nations’ role as trade gateways to the Asian and Arab-African regions. International Trade…

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Intel Corp, the world’s biggest chipmaker, signed a deal with an Egyptian company on Monday to build the first factory to produce motherboards in Africa, the Egyptian Information Ministry said.
The ministry said 85 percent of the production…

Malaysian tourism authorities are pulling out all the stops as they set out to woo more big-spending visitors, local media reported on Monday, as quoted by Xinhua news agency.
The target is to attract 21.5 million tourists this year, especially…

The economy emerged from last fiscal year, which ended June 30, by growing at a 20-year-high of 7.2 percent, Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali said on Sunday.
The figure leapfrogged some forecasts, as many analysts had openly worried that inflation would…

Egypt jumped 11 places in aggregate rankings on the ease of doing business and scored the world’s 10th business reformer this year, according to the World Bank’s “Doing Business 2009 Report.”
“Egypt was once again among the top 10 global…

Bangladesh has sold mobile phone spectrum to three of the country’s mobile phone operators for a total of 14 billion taka (US$204 million) to help expand their network, the telecoms regulatory authority said.
The three companies - Grameenphone, Egyptian Orascom…

Egypt jumped 11 places in aggregate rankings on the ease of doing business and scored the world’s 10th business reformer this year, according to the World Bank’s “Doing Business 2009 Report.”
“Egypt was once again among the top 10 global…

As food price hikes push agricultural yields, the fertilizer industry is getting a boost from fresh investment and increased demand from local and foreign players.
A grouping of local and foreign companies recently announced the building of a new phosphate…

Looking to expand Egypt’s natural gas and petroleum production, the Ministry of Petroleum of Egypt announced yesterday its plan to conduct and international tender that will lead to greater offshore drilling in the Mediterranean Sea. The Ministry announced that its…

The Government of The Arab Republic of Egypt has successfully hosted the Fourth D-8 Working Group Meeting on Energy in Cairo, Egypt on 1-2 June 2008. Attending the meeting were, among others, the D-8 Secretary General and representative from Islamic…