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Written by Asia Pulse
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Wednesday, 27 December 2006 |
Dec. 27, 2006- The Emirates Initiative for Reconstruction and Support for Lebanon has announced that its plan to renovate schools in the South of Lebanon will be expanded to include more schools in the West Bekaa.
The number of public and private schools coming under the reconstruction and renovation programme stood at 272 throughout the whole of Lebanon.
The project has completed the maintenance and reconstruction of 15 in the West Bekaa and delivered them to the ministry of education. |
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Written by The Daily Star
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Saturday, 23 December 2006 |
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Incoming flights to Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport have been fully booked from all over the world for the holiday rush. But the passengers are more often than not natives of Lebanon rather than tourists visiting the country. Many of those who are stepping onto the tarmac are returning home for a few weeks after having spent months abroad, either working or studying.
Dec. 23, 2006- Twenty-four-year old Dima, a post-graduate student in Paris, arrived back in Lebanon after four months of study. The last time she was here was during the summer war with Israel. |
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Written by Daily Star
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Thursday, 21 December 2006 |
'We are shouting and screaming but no one seems to notice'
Dec. 21, 2006- In what looked like a small political rally, hundreds of bankers, businessmen and merchants held a meeting at Beirut's Phoenicia Inter-Continental Hotel on Wednesday to condemn the standoff between the government and the opposition over he latter's demand for more influence in Cabinet.
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Written by People's Daily Online
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Thursday, 21 December 2006 |
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Lebanese official said the Port of Beirut would handle at least 100,000 containers of goods per year for the next three years for the world's third-largest shipping firm France's CMA CGM, Lebanon's local newspaper Daily Star reported on Thursday. Dec. 21, 2006- According to a deal inked by Port of Beirut and French CMA CGM company, the French company began using Beirut as its Eastern- Mediterranean transshipment hub in mid-November, docking its ships here before moving goods on to Turkey, Cyprus and Syria. Authority Chief of Beirut Port Hassan Koraytem expressed that with the help of CMA CGM, the port will handle about 600,000 containers units this year and could surpass 700,000 containers next year. About 480,000 containers passed through the port in 2005, and transshipment is the chief reason volume increased this year despite the port's closure for two months during a 34-day-long Israel-Hezbollah conflict in summer, said Elie Zakhour, president of the Chamber of International Navigation. Source: Xinhua |
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Written by AME info
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Wednesday, 20 December 2006 |
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CFH has announced the success of a strategic partnership between First National Bank of Lebanon and Invest Bank of the UAE in a press conference in Beirut yesterday. Dec. 20, 2006- The US$ 25 million private placement resulted in Invest Bank's acquisition of 18% of the shares of First National Bank. |
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Written by The Daily Star
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Sunday, 17 December 2006 |
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Lebanon's potential as a unique water-rich Arab country has not been fully realized due to improper management techniques and a failure to find alternative resources, local experts told an international conference over the weekend. The International Conference on Integrated Water Resources Management in the Arab Region, held Friday at the Meridien Commodore Hotel, discussed prospects for improved policies and practices. Dec. 17, 2006- "It is well known that something like 80 percent of all water resources on average are employed in agriculture. From this point of view, globally there is enough water to meet our needs, but not with current agricultural practices," American University of Beirut (AUB) president John Waterbury said in the keynote address. |
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Written by Unstrung
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Tuesday, 12 December 2006 |
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Dec. 12, 2006- Cedarcom, the leading Lebanese telecommunications provider, and Kyocera Corporation, the Japanese high-tech manufacturer, announced today that Cedarcom has deployed MOBITM, the first true mobile broadband wireless access network in Lebanon and the Middle East using Kyocera’s iBurstTM technology. Cedarcom has extensive fixed wireless experience and through this move will harness the personal mobile broadband market. |
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