The President of the Central Inspection, Judge Georges Auguste Attia, issued the following circular: “In order to ensure the proper functioning of all departments, public institutions, municipalities and their federations, we call upon the officials and heads of all units to comply with the official working hours specified in Article ... Read More »
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri told his visitors that his appeal to participate in the elections was directed to the general Lebanese expatriates, not to a class or sect. “The aim is based on two main points, urging the spread and alienation to participate in the elections and thus their entry ... Read More »
Finance Minister Ali Hasan Khalil Wednesday pledged to crack down on corruption in the ministry’s real estate department and vowed to deliver the 2018 draft budget to Parliament for approval. The minister made the remarks during the opening of the Finance Ministry’s new online real estate service, which was launched ... Read More »
Lebanon’s Central Bank has the foreign-currency reserves it needs to keep the pound stable against the U.S. dollar at its pegged rate for the foreseeable future, the Central Bank governor said . Riad Salameh also told Reuters in an interview that since June the Central Bank has been engaged in ... Read More »
“We have no problems with the electricity file, but we will put it quietly as we will put up the apple file,” Information Minister Melhem al-Riyashi said ahead of a cabinet meeting at the Beit Din palace. Read More »
Agriculture has contributed nearly as much to climate change as deforestation by intensifying global warming, according to U.S. research that has quantified the amount of carbon taken from the soil by farming. Some 133 billion tons of carbon have been removed from the top two meters of the earth’s soil ... Read More »
Yearly mammograms starting at age 40 would prevent the most deaths from breast cancer, U.S. researchers reported in a challenge to more conservative recommendations that take into account both the harms and the benefits of screening. The study, led by Dr. Elizabeth Arleo, a radiologist specializing in mammography at Weill ... Read More »
Head of IDAL Nabil Itani said Tuesday that Lebanon was the only country in the region which recorded a positive growth in foreign direct investments in 2016 despite the political vacuum at that time. He projected that FDI is to grow by 15 percent in 2017.“We were the only country ... Read More »
Prime Minister Saad Hariri Tuesday hailed the Lebanese Army’s quick gains against Daesh (ISIS) on the northeastern border region as the “biggest vote of confidence in the role of the government, the state and the Army.” He also said the key to halting the waste of public funds is by ... Read More »
Minister of Information Melhem Al-Riyashi received today, at his office in the ministry, the head of Rachaya Development Committee Lilian Malouli. After the meeting, Maalouli confirmed that she had presented with Minister Al-Riyashi “the subject of the Transfiguration on Mount Hermon, which is the focus of several development projects in ... Read More »
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