The much-anticipated Beirut City Centre (BCC) mall finally opened its doors last week and thousands of Lebanese have already flocked to Hazmieh, causing chaos on the already congested roads leading …
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Wandering out of Beirut’s bars or clubs, perhaps feeling a bit merry from one too many drinks, you have a number of options for where to get late-night grub. But …
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If you hear anyone cry wolf about demand in the Lebanese real estate market in 2013, rest assured that this is not the time to panic. The market is not …
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Italian food is one of the most common foreign cuisines in Lebanon — so much so that at first glance one wonders what the added value of Villaggio, the latest …
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Investors in gold have to be on alert today. After a secular bull market with more than 10 years of new highs, the gold price has been in correction since …
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A recent homegrown option for rich Lebanese to invest in a fund with global reach is being pushed into the market by Banque Libano-Francaise (BLF) — in fact, it is …
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They are not actually new-new. They give banks smaller margins than they did in their previous incarnation. They are tightly controlled with very little to no wiggle room on interest …
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The Lebanese do not have a good record when it comes to the environment. There are few facilities for disposing of your waste in an environmentally-friendly manner, and those that …
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Endless queues at ATMs, protests in front of Parliament, banks closed for 12 consecutive days and businesses under increasing pressure to continue operating: the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, just …
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Randomly pick any Lebanese citizen and they’ll be able to list many negative things about their home country: power cuts, traffic jams, excruciatingly slow Internet. But Lebanon is also home …