KARACHI, Oct 25: President Asif Ali Zardari has said the government will do all in its means to facilitate growth of businesses in the country. He acknowledged that the cost of doing business in Pakistan is prohibitively high and there is a need to ...

26 Oct 2008

For Isis, a recovering drug addict, reading 1/4 Gram was like reading her own story, even though she didn't fit into the mould of any of the characters. She found reading the novel was a very intense and distinctive experience. It was familiar ...

23 Oct 2008

The Egyptian Chefs’ Association recently hosted the Sharm Salon Culinaire 2005 in Sharm El-Sheikh. Winners from the Conrad Sharm El-Sheikh Resort included Chef Ahmed Abdel Wahed (bronze medalist for main course); Chef Amir Eissa (bronze medalist in ...

29 Sep 2008

It is not easy to write about drug addiction in this country. Despite awareness campaigns, TV programs and movies that try to tackle the issue, little is known about why and how people, especially youth, start abusing drugs and become addicts. Essam ...

22 Sep 2008

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian workers cut through a railway embankment on Sunday to bring heavy earth-moving equipment to the site of a rock fall which killed at least 31 people in a Cairo shantytown. At the scene of Saturday's disaster, rescue workers ...

7 Sep 2008