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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
5/27/2023 2:49:07 PM
Lebanon’s Sursock Museum has reopened to the public, three years after a deadly explosion in Beirut's port — set off by tons of improperly stored chemicals — reduced many of its treasured paintings and collections to ashes.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
5/2/2023 5:14:06 PM
The UAE’s National Paints acquired on Tuesday 81 percent of Egypt’s state-owned Paint and Chemicals Industries (PACHIN), purchasing a total of 19.358 million of the company’s shares in a deal worth EGP 770.4 million (about $25 million).
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Business
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Markets & Companies
4/11/2023 6:39:25 PM
The Dubai-based National Paints Holding (NPH) has raised its offer to acquire the Paint and Chemicals Industries (Pachin) by EGP 2.05 per share to EGP 39.8, according to a statement released by the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) on Monday.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
8/21/2022 1:08:54 PM
The value of Egypt’s paints sector would most probably hit $3.6 billion by 2027, based on several statistics and estimates, an industry official said Saturday.
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World
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International
7/17/2022 12:08:00 PM
Experts were poised to investigate the site of a plane crash in northern Greece Sunday to determine whether any dangerous chemicals or explosive cargo remains.
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Egypt
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Politics
6/18/2022 7:07:46 PM
Egyptian MPs will submit urgent statements to the House of Representatives this week on Minister of Public Enterprise Hesham Tawfik’s plan to the liquidate El-Nasr Coke and Chemicals Company and to sell off public sector hotels.
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Egypt
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Urban & Transport
6/18/2022 5:10:41 PM
In response to questions directed by MPs, Egypt’s Minister of Public Enterprise Hisham Tawfik insisted that the “liquidation of El-Nasr Coke and Chemicals will go ahead as planned after it incurred losses of EGP 30 million last year and that there is no hope of reforming the company and turning it into a profitable one.”
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World
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Region
6/14/2022 10:51:22 AM
More than 130 people were hospitalised with breathing difficulties following a chemical leak at a factory in southern Iran, state media reported on Tuesday.
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World
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International
6/5/2022 2:29:09 PM
A massive fire at a container depot near a port city in southeastern Bangladesh killed at least 49 people, including nine firefighters, and injured more than 100 others, officials and local media reported Sunday, as efforts to extinguish the blaze continued into a second night.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
4/13/2022 12:13:00 PM
Egypt has successfully implemented a project for the safe disposal of persistent organic pollutants.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Economy
1/11/2022 9:54:19 PM
The value of Egypt’s exports recorded an all-time high last year despite the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, writes Doaa A. Moneim
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Business
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Economy
12/21/2021 5:33:18 PM
The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) signed on Tuesday with Abu Qir Fertilisers and Chemicals Industries Company a contract establishing the biggest complex for methanol and ammonia production in the Ain Sokhna Industrial Zone at an investment cost of $2.6 billion.
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World
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Region
7/30/2021 5:21:54 PM
The blast was one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever recorded, killing more than 200 people, wounding thousands, and devastating swathes of Beirut
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World
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Region
7/2/2021 10:00:00 PM
The blast in August, blamed on a huge quantity of chemicals left for years in poor storage conditions, deepened a political and economic crisis in the heavily indebted country
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World
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International
6/2/2021 2:52:36 PM
A cargo ship carrying tonnes of chemicals is sinking off Sri Lanka's west coast, the country's government and navy said on Wednesday, in one of Sri Lanka's worst-ever marine disasters
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World
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Region
3/26/2021 2:04:57 PM
'This is something that needs to be discussed now and needs to be dealt with promptly,' Diab said in the statement
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World
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Region
2/11/2021 6:56:26 PM
Two of the suspects were arrested in Denmark, where the chemicals were also seized, while the third was arrested in the German state of Hesse
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World
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Region
1/6/2021 1:58:02 PM
The Western effort reflects a much broader effort to obtain accountability for Syrian chemical attacks
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World
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Region
1/4/2021 3:29:24 PM
It said the vessel's crew members had been detained and included nationals of South Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam and Myanmar, but did not say how many there were
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World
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Region
12/9/2020 3:53:52 PM
Since the blast, some of Hezbollah's opponents and others have accused Hezbollah of storing explosive chemicals at the port
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