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Law 174 *caused* a revenue increase of +3%
Law 174 - No Smoking Lebanon Facebook Group proudly posted today that the latest research conducted by Dr. Jad Chaaban has revealed that the "the indoor smoking ban that went into effect in September 2012 has *caused* a revenue increase of +3% for the sector". The full research was not published yet but I do hope that they are only considering restaurants that applied the non-smoking law because no one seemed to care about this…
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Syrian Arrested and Beaten in Tripoli
12 years ago[YouTube] This video is a month old yet pretty much shows how fragile the security situation is in Tripoli. It’s more than shameful to treat a human being this way, regardless of what he might ...
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Tripoli Clashes: Now and Then
12 years agoClashes in Beb el Tebbane in 1975 If you thought the Tripoli clashes are recent ones and due to the situation in Syria, check out these old pictures from the 1970s and 1980s posted by ...
Critiques
Minister Marwan Charbel on Syrian Refugees
12 years agoSyrian refugees in Lebanon: A humiliating situation Check out what Marwan Charbel said today on the Syrian Refugees issue: Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel admitted on Tuesday that the authorities had miscalculated in not building ...
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Thank You Alfa!
12 years agoUpdate: The 10% extra MBs are only for one month to compensate the loss due to the outage that occurred the day before. (Source: Alfa) That’s probably the only good news that ever came out ...
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Abou Salim Jump on Splash
12 years ago[YouTube] I didn’t watch Splash’s first episode but I was told Abou Salim, Aka Salah Tizani the Comedy legend from Tripoli, made a 3 meter jump which is quite impressive for an 85 year old! ...
Humor
The story of one Ukrainian prostitute in Lebanon
12 years agoPicture taken from GlobalPost I laughed when I read that Abou Bilal the young man who approached her first is studying medicine at the Kyiv Medical University. I wonder what he will specialize in later ...
Critiques
Updated: General Security granted access to all data
12 years agoUpdate: The General Security denied the allegations stated in Annahar’s article and said it didn’t have access to any data (Source: VOL). Update2: Since February 2013, the Prime Minister can accept giving the Data to ...
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Two Lebanese dead in Malta boat accident
12 years agoLast picture of the group on the small boat taken by the yacht’s skipper – via DailyStar That’s quite an unfortunate incident. According to TimesOfMalta, the sea was calm when the group left but there ...