Economics and Policy PayPal will finally launch in Lebanon and Egypt in 2013, the general manager of the online payment gateway, Elias Ghanem, announced at the ArabNet conference on Thursday. More from The Daily Star Lebanese air traffic controllers seeking a pay rise halted flights at Beirut's international airport for four hours on Thursday as the cabinet met to discuss a new public worker salary scale. More from Reuters The vice president of South Sudan has hailed investment talks with the UAE this week as productive as his country looks to become Africa's newest economic centre. More from The National NGOs have accused Cyprus of a host of economic wrongdoings – as a tax haven, a hub for money laundering, and of financial opacity. More from AFP Moody’s Investors Service Thursday downgraded Egypt’s sovereign foreign currency credit rating to Caa1 from B3, citing unsettled political conditions,
