Open Strike

Unions are organizing yet another major strike today as the new wage scale has not been approved yet. To be honest, I have a lot of reservations on passing this new wage scale, specially when it is benefiting a lot of government workers who live on bribes and do nothing all day but when I see government proposals such as raising the MPs and Ministers' salaries or increasing the number of MPs to 134, I…

Metropolitan Elias Audi Public Garden

Achrafieh will soon have a new public garden, the Metropolitan bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church in Beirut Elias Audi garden. It's located on a parallel street to Monot right before the Ahrar Party headquarters. I have a suggestion for Beirut's municipality: If they force every real estate company to fund and build a public garden for every skyscraper they come up with, we will have enough green spaces for all Beirut's residents in no…

On Lebanon’s First Lady donation to Osu Children’s Home

Picture via Mustapha Lebanese President Michel Sleiman and his wife Mrs Wafaa Sleiman were on a 2 days visit to Ghana last week. As you can see from the article shown above, the donations that our First Lady gave were not so generous but knowing the first lady, there seems to be a missing link in that story. Why I am saying is because it is a well know fact that she is very involved…
Automotive

Picture of the accident between a bus and a truck

12 years ago
Three people were killed on Wednesday when a passenger bus collided with a truck on al-Bouar highway, north of Beirut, the Lebanese Red Cross and the National News Agency said. [Naharnet] To be honest, taking ...
Events

ArabNet Beirut 2013 Kicks off today!

12 years ago
ArabNet is considered the hub for Arab digital professionals and entrepreneurs to connect and learn and has been a success for the past two years. ArabNet Beirut’s third edition is set to kick off today ...
Information

Update: December 1982 movie

12 years ago
I got an answer from the people behind the December 1982 movie on whether they will show the movie in Lebanon or not. Hi, I would love to have the film screened in Lebanon, but ...
Humor

Why Most Lebanese History Books End at 1943

12 years ago
[YouTube] So without agreement, Lebanese schools often choose textbooks based on the religion or their students. VOA apparently wants to make sure the whole world understands how messed up we are. ...
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