Posted By
Najib
Apr 09, 2018 07:05
You'd expect the Lebanese parliament to make the new 2018 Lebanese budget available online or in the papers, especially that it's the first budget we pass since 2005 but I couldn't find it anywhere and even more specifically, none of the articles on the budget had any reference to the controversial Article 49 that allows any foreign national who invests in a real estate starting at around $500,000 inside Beirut and $330,000 elsewhere to obtain…
Posted By
Najib
Apr 09, 2018 11:13
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…
Fun
8 years ago
[31/05/2018] 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 ...
Lebanon
8 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
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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
8 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
8 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
8 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
8 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
8 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 ...
