Anyone whose bucket list includes scaling the world’s highest mountains but is too cautious to take on the treacherous beast that is Mt. Everest, this list is for you. Traveling across exotic paths to the…
Despite the bad headlines over the seemingly never-ending drug wars in Mexico, tourists are flocking to the country more than ever before. The Financial Times reports that Mexico had a record number of tourists this…
Successful citizen revolts in Tunisia and Egypt have set off a wave of demonstrations in capital cities in the Middle East and North Africa with dissidents seeking to throw off decades of political repression. International…
As a follow up to our report on the 28th, it seems that Egypt restored Internet service yesterday. In the aftermath of this event, it is even more obvious how important it is to have…
The following advice was provided by Altegrity Risk International, a provider of high-quality investigative, analytic, consulting and security services to business around the world: At the moment, it is recommended that travelers follow the state…
HTH sources in Egypt indicate that private hospitals in Cairo and Alexandria remain open and comparatively well-supplied at the moment. Many of them are focusing on emergency cases and inpatient care, so routine scheduled outpatient…
Egypt’s President, Hosni Mubarak has pulled the plug on the Internet and on most wireless and SMS service. This is a pretty drastic step for a government to take and luckily, fairly rare. However, it…
What’s on track to become a bigger killer than malaria? Vehicular traffic. Unless trends are reversed, cars and trucks will kill 1.9 million people worldwide annually by 2020. To combat this deadly threat, Bloomberg Philanthropies…
Management for the seaside resorts in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the popular destination for scuba divers, has advised visitors to stay out of the water following five shark attacks in the past week. The attacks left…
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