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Najib
Mar 25, 2023 10:18
Patrick George, a Lebanese expat and Concordia graduate, kicked off his banking career with a Lebanese private bank in 1994 before moving to HSBC in 1996 to manage the Emerging Markets Equities product covering Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa. Patrick then took over several positions at HSBC, mainly as Global Head of Equities, responsible for all Equity-related Sales, Trading and financing activities from 2008-2016 and Global Head of Markets & Securities Services ,…
Posted By
Najib
Mar 24, 2023 11:23
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 have been undertaken at the current airport since 1998. However, Lebanon's imminent need is for a new airport far away from Beirut, not for a new terminal. No new terminal is going to fix the problems surrounding the existing airport,…
Posted By
Najib
Mar 24, 2023 04:22
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 happiness including GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and corruption. I guess we don't need to explain much as to why Lebanon is so poorly ranked, despite the numerous displays of "fake" happiness we see on…
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Najib
Mar 23, 2023 03:47
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 other words, people fasting during the holy month of Ramadan won't need to do so for an "additional hour". I wasn't aware that one can postpone daylight saving especially when all our phones, laptops, servers and systems switch automatically now.…
Critiques
2 years ago
I’ve never been to Wazzani but I’ve known for years that there are tens of unlicensed restaurants and cafes there open right on the river. Wazzani is an area right next to the blue line ...
Lebanon
2 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 ...
Critiques
2 years ago
You’d expect luxury goods imports to decrease dramatically when an economic crisis hit a country followed by a dramatic currency collapse, but that doesn’t appear to be the case in Lebanon where caviar imports, as ...
Critiques
2 years ago
News were circulating last week that TotalEnergies might delay its offshore gas exploration in Lebanon due to security reasons, but they turned out to be rumors yet I wish they were true. In fact, no ...
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