Egyptian billionaire offers to buy island for refugees to mitigate Euro migrant crisis

Egyptian billionaire offers to buy island for refugees to mitigate Euro migrant crisis

Special to WorldTribune.com The billionaire Egyptian chairman of Orascom has offered to buy an island as a temporary home for refugees flooding Europe. Naguib Sawiris, chairman of Orascom Telecom Media and Technology, an international telecommunications company headquartered in Cairo said in a recent Twitter post that it was a “crazy idea … maybe but at […]

Number of cell phone users surging in N. Korea, posing threat to regime control

Number of cell phone users surging in N. Korea, posing threat to regime control

Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com Nearly 1 million North Koreans, out of the country’s 24 million people, are using mobile phones, making it increasingly difficult for the authoritarian regime to maintain strict control over the flow of information. Since North Korea introduced a 3G mobile phone network in a joint venture with Egyptian […]