The wrong prescription?
Galal Ghorab, the head of the Holding Company for Drug Industries, has issued a battle cry: the local pharmaceutical industry and consumers must be protected from the flood of over-priced and sub-standard drugs. He spoke to Gamal Essam El-Din

A house of cards
By Aziza Sami

Size isn't everything
AlUMNI of the USAID Development Training Programme (DTP) were recently invited to attend a lecture on the challenges and opportunities facing small enterprises, reports Shaimaa Labib.

Masks off gas
Plans to export Egyptian natural gas to Israel have been officially acknowledged at last, reports Niveen Wahish

A room somewhere
WHEN THE Semiramis Intercontinental opened in the 1980s few would have guessed that it would be the last big hotel chain to open in Cairo for a decade.-Read on-

The great escape
Black Friday had only a marginal effect on the Egyptian stock exchange. Sherine Abdel-Razek explains why the panic button should not be pressed