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Najib
Mar 29, 2023 04:55
According to World Bank’s latest Food Security Update report, Lebanon has the highest nominal inflation rate in the world at 139% followed closely by Zimbabwe at 138% and Argentina at 108%. The food inflation rate for each country "is based on the latest month from October 2022 to January 2023 for which the food component of the Consumer Price Index and overall CPI data are available. Real food inflation is defined as food inflation minus…
Posted By
Najib
Mar 29, 2023 04:22
The United States Department of the Treasury imposed new sanctions today against six people, four Syrians and two Lebanese, for their role in the production or export of captagon, a dangerous amphetamine. The four Syrians include Assad's cousins Samer Kamal Al-Assad and Wassim Badi al-Assad as well as Walid Qaddour a Syrian businessman and a former commander of the rebel Free Syrian Army. The two Lebanese sanctioned are Noah Zaaiter and Hassan Daqqou who work…
Art
3 years ago
A while back, I stumbled upon a short video depicting a Tintin au Liban parody edition. The video showed an English edition which seemingly was issued by the National Lampoon magazine, an American humor magazine ...
Baladi
3 years ago
Patrick George, a Lebanese expat and Concordia graduate, kicked off his banking career with a Lebanese private bank (FFA Private Bank) in 1994 before moving to HSBC in 1996 to manage the Emerging Markets Equities ...
Critiques
3 years ago
The Minister of Public Works & Transport announced on Twitter yesterday plans to build a new terminal at the Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport with a foreign investment of $122 million, noting that no expansion plans ...
Critiques
3 years ago
The World Happiness Report released its annual ranking of the happiest & unhappiest countries in the world and Lebanon was ranked at the bottom along with Afghanistan. The report uses six key factors to measure ...
Critiques
3 years ago
A memorandum was issued today by the Lebanese government to postpone Daylight Saving Time, which was set to start on Sunday March 26, until April 21 which marks the end of the Ramadan month. In ...
Lebanon
3 years ago
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded “officially” in Lebanon? The answer is -23 degrees Celsius on January 20th 1964 in the town of Yammoune according to Lebanon Weather Forecast. The page referenced the Directorate ...
Baladi
3 years ago
The Christmas spirit is unfortunately missing this year again in Lebanon but one has to find a reason to be cheerful and thankful, even for the little things, during this time of year. Here are ...
Humor
3 years ago
Fake news have been traveling online about a brilliant inventor from Lebanon who apparently broke three Guinness World Records, as “The Youngest Engineer in the World”, “The Youngest Inventor to Obtain a Patent for an ...
