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June. The grip of football fever will soon engulf the globe as all eyes turn to South Africa, the host nation of one of the biggest events on the planet: …

Creative Solution for Housing is a Lebanese real estate advisory and consultancy firm. Established in 2009, the company aims to introduce a ‘pay as you grow’ housing loan scheme for …

Lebanon saw a 38.7 percent rise in check clearing activity in the first quarter of 2010. According to figures released by the Association of Banks in Lebanon, total cleared checks …

“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore,” said the American author and humorist Mark Twain. Following Twain’s advice in a small country like Lebanon makes sense, as both the country’s …

Grandiose visions of splendor have dissipated for Dubai’s developers after a sobering couple of years spent rethinking their payment schemes and trying to re-galvanize investor confidence. Now they are left …

Whenever an automaker departs significantly from its own standards and norms, it raises certain questions about the maker, the marque, and the industry as a whole. Manufacturers — and sport …

The interest rate subsidies granted by the central bank to 60 percent of lending sectors in July and September of 2009 have been extended until June 2011. The original circulars …

It has been 20 years since the end of the war, but we still haven’t seriously started reconstructing the country,” said Serge Yazigi, head of the Majal urban observatory, part …

International expansion has been the inclination of many of Lebanon’s banks in recent years, and being no strangers to unpredictable security conditions, frequent electrical outages and the slow crawl of …

Over the course of July and August 2006, Israeli air strikes pounded Beirut’s southern suburb of Haret Hreik, pulverizing infrastructure and forcing many of the quarter’s residents to flee. Four …