Lebanon is Not Really Among The 20 Most Dangerous Countries in the World for Tourists

Business Insider released an article today listing the 20 most dangerous countries in the world for tourists. The list was extracted from The World Economic Forum's 2017 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index Report, which measures “the set of factors and policies that enable the sustainable development of the travel and tourism sector, which in turn, contributes to the development and competitiveness of a country”. The 370 pages long WEF report ranks countries based on several…

New Ogero DSL Speeds and Pricing as per Today’s Approved Decree

The new prices that Ogero announced almost a month ago were finally approved in today's session with even further reduction in monthly subscription prices. While speeds will remain the same for most plans depending on technical capacity, the newly introduced "Open Speed" plans will offer internet users with speeds similar to the ones we witnessed during the Unleash the Speed campaign. Here are some of the newly announced packages: – 2Mbps: Unlimited at 60,000 LBP…
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Meet The New Garbage Trucks (Replacing Sukleen)

8 years ago
As you’ve probably noticed by now, there are new garbage trucks roaming our streets instead of the old green Sukleen trucks. The new ones are operated by Ramco and it’s written all over them that ...
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Driver with Car Plate Saying “3ala Sale3te Bitbale3te” Fined by the ISF

8 years ago
The ISF shared a picture yesterday of a car with an illegal license plate that says “3ala Sale3te Bitbale3te”. The driver will be fined somewhere between 1 million and 3 million liras according to the ...
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Meen Sara2 el 3amoud?

8 years ago
Someone basically dug out a 20 year old song called “Who stole the pole?” (Meen sara2 el 3amoud) and everyone’s sharing it on Facebook lately and making jokes out of it (I didn’t get the ...
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More than 250 Students Took Part in Azadea Foundation’s 2017 Envirothon

8 years ago
Azadea Foundation has been hosting inter-school Envirothon competition for the past three years to celebrate Earth Day and this year’s competition was in collaboration with The Little Engineer. This year’s theme was “Using technology for ...
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Baalbeck’s Megalithic Stone Blocks: Ancient Engineering or Aliens?

8 years ago
I spent my Sunday morning reading about Baalbeck’s massive stone blocks and how no one has figured out yet how Romans were able to cut with such precision a 3,000 ton stone, why and how ...
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We’re Having a Lebanese Arm Wrestling Championship on June 18

8 years ago
A Lebanese Arm Wrestling championship, the first of its kind in Lebanon (according to the organizers), will kick off on Sunday June 18th at Sassine Square in Achrafieh. This is not some competition between villages ...
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Some People Want to Boycott Wassouf’s Concert in Achrafieh Now

8 years ago
So George Wassouf is holding a concert on June 17 at Sassine Square in Achrafieh and a page called “You Like Lebanon? Buy Lebanese (or from the Lebanese)” shared a poll asking people to vote ...
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Upcoming Concerts & Movies that Could Potentially Get Banned in #Lebanon

8 years ago
So Wonder Woman got banned because the lead actor Gal Gadot is an Israeli and has served in the military. Knowing that the same actress was also starring in three previous movies that were all ...
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