Arabic News Daily Page for 3/8/2002
Daily Edition - Friday, March 8, 2002
- Antoniades Palace, its beautiful gardens yearn
Antoniades Palace or the Magic Palace as Alexandrians prefer to call it has become an enigma. Strangely, its vast gardens have been separated from the palace itself. While the palace is affiliated to Alexandria Governorate while the gardens fall under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture. Egypt, Local, 3/8/2002 - Alfantine Island traces ancient life since pre-historic ages to dynasties
Alfantine is an archaeological island that falls opposite Aswan. The island embraces the oldest remains of housing agglomerations as old as the pre-historic ages. The island bears monuments that date back to the age of Naqada i.e 3500 BC. Remains of the temple of goddess Sat which existed since the late Naqada age about 2300 B C can still be seen. Egypt, Local, 3/8/2002 - Ghali hails US decision on steel import tariffs
Egyptian Minister of Foreign Trade, Youssef Boutros Ghali on Wednesday lauded US President Bush's decision to exempt Egypt from the new steel import tariffs which range between 8 to 30 percent. Egypt-USA, Economics, 3/8/2002 - Parliament's upper house to hold extraordinary session on monday
The chamber of advisors (upper parliamentary chamber) will hold on Monday an extraordinary session, in accordance with a decree adopted on March 5 by a ministers council held in Dakhla (southern Morocco) under the chairmanship of King Mohammed VI. Morocco, Politics, 3/8/2002 - Thailand to have full-fledged Islamic bank in May
Thailand is likely to have its full-fledged Islamic Bank in May, as preparation of Krung Thai Bank Plc. (KTB) to launch the Islamic banking system, separately in both management and operational aspects from its normal commercial banking businesses, is expected to be completed by the time, Thai news agency TNA said quoting a KTB top executive. Regional, Religion, 3/8/2002 - Football: three Moroccan clubs start African competition
Three Moroccan clubs, namely Raja of Casablanca, Wydad of Casablanca and Fath of Rabat, will start this weekend competition in three African cups. Morocco, Sports, 3/8/2002 - Israeli foreign ministers contacts Arafat
The Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres on Wednesday evening made a telephone call with the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat, just few minutes after the Israeli Apache planes bombarded Palestinian positions and targets near Arafat's office in Ramullah. Palestine-Israel, Politics, 3/8/2002