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Rumors of rising railway ticket fares

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From the Daily News Egypt…

News leaked Monday that Egypt’s Ministry of Transport plans to hike ticket fares for first-class railway vehicles and metro lines by 25 percent beginning July 1.
According to local reports, starting July 1 the ministry will raise prices of railway tickets for first and second-class air-conditioned vehicles to reach LE 140 for first-class tickets from Cairo to Aswan — up from LE 110 — and LE 68 for second-class tickets, up from LE 55.
The Ministry of Transport could not comment by press time, and sources at the Railway Authority could not confirm the news.

Mubarak’s culture minister draws fire over Israel remarks

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From AFP:

Dozens of Egyptian writers on Sunday condemned Culture Minister Faruq Hosni, a candidate to head UNESCO, for saying in an Israeli newspaper interview that he was prepared to visit the Jewish state.
The interview itself angered a group of 26 intellectuals, authors and poets, who consider Israel “the enemy” almost three decades after Egypt signed the first Arab peace treaty with Israel.
“Granting an interview to an Israeli paper is a form of normalisation with the enemy,” they said in a statement, adding that having Hosni at the head of UNESCO “will not be an honour for Egyptians and Arabs.”
The minister’s remarks amounted to a “humiliating surrender to Israeli demands for the sake of personal gain,” the signatories charged.

Mansoura-España Updates: Bank sacks five workers

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According to sources in the Mansoura-España Garments factory, the United Bank has issued a sacking decree against the four workers it reported earlier to the police, in addition to the deputy head of the Factory Union Committee Adel Hassaballah. The order will be implemented tomorrow, according to the workers, but a strike is expected to take place 8am if the five workers are barred by the security from entering the company compound.

Mansoura-España Garments Company شركة المنصورة أسبانيا للملابس