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Najib
Mar 21, 2021 12:33
After weeks of stalling, the Health Ministry has finally taken the first step towards speeding up the vaccination campaign in Lebanon, by allowing a Pharmaline, a private Lebanese company, to acquire one million doses of the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V. This was made possible by Pharmaline owner Jacques Sarraf who heads the Lebanese Russian Business Council and the Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation in Lebanon. According to Naharnet, the vaccine will be offered…
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Najib
Mar 21, 2021 12:21
A video was circulating last week where a grocery shop owner was filmed asking a customer to pay LL500 for an extra plastic bag. I heard a similar story from a friend of mine at a local supermarket. This has become common practice in a lot of countries worldwide mainly to reduce the use of plastic, but it's a different story in Lebanon. Those plastic bags are not produced locally, and given that raw material…
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Najib
Mar 20, 2021 08:02
Several marches were organized across Lebanon today in solidarity with the mothers who lost their loved ones in the August 4 Beirut blast. The powerful explosion killed over 200 people and injured thousands. Among the victims were several children, the youngest being 3-year-old Alexandra Naggear. Seven months after the explosion, families are only left with grief, an indescribable pain and no sense of justice from an incompetent government that is failing on every level. Credits:…
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Najib
Mar 19, 2021 03:42
Ever since the situation started deteriorating in Lebanon, especially in 2020 where we had to face an economic crisis, a pandemic, a collapsing Lira and the August 4 blast, many Lebanese would jokingly wish for a meteor or a comet to strike and destroy Earth. Well there's a movie that was released in 2020 called Greenland, where a family struggles for survival in the face of a planet-killing comet racing to Earth. However, at the…
Economics
4 years ago
Lebanon issued its first coins in 1924 in denominations of 2 and 5 (قرش) with the French denominations given in Syrian piastres. The first banknotes were issued in 1925 and it was only in 1939 ...
Critiques
4 years ago
Lebanon’s central bank is set to launch an electronic foreign currency trading platform to try and stabilize the exchange rate of the US dollar to the Lebanese pound. The platform will help monitor transactions and ...
Lebanon
4 years ago
Back in January, State Prosecutor for Mount Lebanon Judge Ghada Aoun charged Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh with dereliction of duty and breach of trust and Salameh was expected to appear today in front of ...
Humor
4 years ago
The above picture is showing the former Foreign Affairs minister, but if you visit the MFA’s website and click on its social media channels, you will be directed to the former minister instead of the ...
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