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14 - 20 May 1998
Issue No.377
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G-15 'A voice for the South'
Chairing this week's G-15 summit, Egypt attempted to steer developing nations towards solidarity in an age of globalisation. Nevine Khalil examines Cairo's goals

During the G-15 summit that opened on Monday in Cairo, Egypt acted to revive the group's role in order to give developing nations a louder voice on the international scene. Egypt stepped in at the last minute last year to offer a venue for the eighth G-15 summit after Jamaica said it could not host the gathering as scheduled. --read on--

Northern barriers, southern business
Convening ahead of next week's WTO meeting in Geneva, G-15 businessmen and officials in Cairo focused on how they could play a more interactive role on the international trade scene. Niveen Wahish reports 		Critical lessons
Despite the Asian economic crisis, G-15 leaders re-pledged adherence to the principles of a free market economy and structural adjustment programmes. Fatemah Farag reports on the views expressed by participants on Asia's problems
Incentives needed to promote G-15 business
The trade fair was a major side show of the G-15 meetings. Although the inauguration ceremonies were grand, Fatemah Farag had to make do with a view from the sidelines
IAA Free, but self-regulated, advertising
The 36th Congress of the International Advertising Association (IAA) ended yesterday after long discussions on the future of communication and advertising in the coming millennium. Rehab Saad attended
pope Shenoudah III Coptic church regains Waqf land
After nearly two decades of litigation, the Coptic church is regaining hundreds of feddans of land seized by the government in 1971. Omayma Abdel-Latif reports In what is being viewed as a goodwill gesture by the government towards Coptic citizens, the Ministry of Awqaf (religious endowments) has decided after nearly two decades of legal battles to hand back to the Coptic Orthodox Church 385 feddans of land it had seized in 1971. --read on--  

'Pre-emptive' clampdown on Islamists
FORTY-TWO suspected members of the underground Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya were arrested last week in the Nile Delta province of Menoufiya for allegedly attempting to revive the activities of the anti-government group, reports Amira Ibrahim. According to security sources, the suspects used to hold meetings in isolated areas in the towns of Menouf and Sers El-Layyan and the village of El-Deberki to discuss ways of winning new recruits. It was at one of those meetings that they were arrested, the police claim. They were remanded in custody for 15 days.

'Wassat' by any other name...
The would-be founders of the Wassat Party, after failing to gain legality, have bounced back with a new application for a party with a slightly different name. Amira Howeidy plays the name game,Political Parties

NDP leaders clash over youth
Parliament Speaker Fathi Sorour was involved in an unusual verbal clash with the minister of state for parliamentary affairs

MPs warn against water wars
Parliament's National Security and Defence Committee was the scene of a hot debate on alleged Israeli attempts to interfere with Nile water resources

Obituary
 A star of the '60s falls
Another prominent figure in a generation of intellectuals identified with the 1960s has passed away. Ghali Shoukri, a leading literary critic and political writer, died on Saturday at the age of 63 after a three-year illness. Khaled Dawoud reviews Shoukri's rich and controversial life