IMPRESSIVE FEAT: The New Suez Canal was crowdfunded from the Egyptian public, with US$8.5 billion raised in just six days. Some 43,000 workers carved a new 35km channel running parallel to the old route, and widened and deepened 37km of the original route - all within a year.
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Ismailia, Egypt
WITH much pomp and pride, Egypt's military regime launched the New Suez Canal on Thursday in front of dignitaries from around the world in a project seen as more politically significant than economically so.
The expanded canal, dubbed by the authorities as Egypt's "...
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