Aswan

Aswan Governor Ahmad Ebrahim has instructed river police to take the measures necessary to enforce the ban especially in the area near the Aswan cabled bridge due to a spike in drowning cases, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA) said.

Hotels in Aswan and Luxor said the occupancy rate has exceeded 60% since the holiday season started, including Christmas, and New Year's Day.

Aswan is a prominent city in Egypt and has tremendous potential for growth.

In her address on the occasion, HH Sheikha Moza expressed pleasure at the partnership between the Qatar Foundation and the Foundation of Dr Magdi Yacoub, especially in the light of the growing incidence of heart and blood vessels diseases in the region, while underlining that "any medical or scientific progress is not possible without a stimulating environment." She said the Aswan Heart Centre was an excellent model of that stimulating environment for scientific and medical research in the Arab world.

On Saturday night, about 500 protesters massed in Beni Sueif, calling for the people who attacked the church in el-Merenat to be punished and the sacking of the Governor of Aswan.

He revealed that President Al-Bashir has approached the Egyptian Government during his recent visit to Cairo to assist in the evacuation of the Sudanese returnees from Libya, saying that the response of the Egyptian government was very prompt in all the ports and stations in collaboration with the Sudanese Embassy in Cairo and the Sudanese consulate in Aswan

Egypt's Misr Aswan Tourism said on Sunday its shareholders agreed to scrap a land sale contract with the country's second-biggest listed property firm, Palm Hills Developments, and return money from the sale.

A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesman said: ''We can confirm the death of a British national in Aswan, Egypt.

Power lines were damaged in the south of the country and in the Sinai peninsula, but a senior regional power company official in Aswan, Mohamed Farag, told state news agency MENA the Aswan High Dam hydroelectric facility was unaffected.

Nubian women of West Aswan; negotiating tradition and change, 2d ed.

Summary: Police fired tear-gas at some 2,000 rioters in the southern Egyptian town of Aswan on Sunday as they protested the police shooting to death of a bird-seller

Banque Misr will be expanding JCB acceptance to Luxor, famed for the Temples of Luxor and Karnak among other awe-inspiring monuments of ancient civilization, and to Aswan, the winter resort with a dry, temperate climate.

One of those cities is Aswan New City, which is located about 12 km north of Aswan City and lies on the western bank of the Nile River.