List of Donors at the #CEDRE Conference

Lebanon received more than $11 billion between loans and grants at the CEDRE conference last week, in a bid to support development projects and reforms in the country. We were looking for investments between $16 and $17 billion for Phase I and Phase II of the Capital Investment Program that was being presented, so the outcome is rather positive and exceeded expectations. However, these billions don't really mean anything and will only increase our debts…

[Updated] Lebanese to Watch the 2018 World Cup for Free?

Annahar reported an agreement was reached to broadcast the World Cup on Tele Liban for free. Information Minister Melhem Riachi has promised football fans in Lebanon that they will be watching the 2018 FIFA World Cup for free. The details will be announced next week but it looks like the minister is adamant on avoiding the fiasco that took place four years ago where we almost got deprived of World Cup and Tele Liban ended…
Lebanon

Review: Honor 7X

7 years ago
If you had asked me a year ago if you could buy a decent smartphone for $300, I would have told you to spend a couple of extra hundred dollars and buy yourself a high-end ...
Baladi

Earth Hour Celebrated at City Centre Beirut

7 years ago
I dropped by City Centre Beirut last Saturday to take part in their Earth Hour activation. For those who are not familiar with the movement, Earth Hour is a global initiative that aims at turning ...
Advertising

Happy Easter Ads [2018]

7 years ago
Here are some of the Easter ads I spotted this year. Fakhry, Barbar & McDonalds are my favorites. The worst one was Malak el Taouk. What were they thinking? McDonalds: Kababji: Fakhry: Barbar: Castania: Casper: ...
Fun

What’s with All These Green People/Flyers/Billboards?

7 years ago
First I spotted two people painted and dressed in green from head to toe with a green logo in the middle then I spotted some people distributing flyers with the same logo in the streets ...
Critiques

Unemployment Rate in #Lebanon at 46%?

7 years ago
I was just reading that President Aoun warned yesterday “that the grave economic situation, presence of Syrian refugees and the reluctance of Lebanese to take low-paid jobs has caused unemployment to soar to 46 percent”, ...
Lebanon

First Pictures of the Airbus 380 Landing in #Beirut

7 years ago
The world’s largest passenger airliner, the Airbus A380 has landed in Beirut today at around 10AM for the first time. The flight is operated by Emirates Airlines and will depart from Beirut at 1415hrs arriving ...
Advertising

Two Ads that Don’t Make Any Sense

7 years ago
I stumbled upon Poule D’or ad a couple of weeks ago and while I was at Horeca, I looked up a new nuts place called Klatchi online and went through his ads, and to be ...
Elections2018

What does “Awbesh” Means?

7 years ago
Lebanese politicians don’t need an occasion to resort to name-calling and derogatory terms and ever since the electoral campaigns have begun, they’ve been outdoing themselves. The funny part is that this new electoral law is ...
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