Special Report

To make it as luxury real estate in the Gulf region these days, a development must have more than a funky name and a public relations consultant. Nurai, a residential …

  Business at Dubai Duty Free (DDF) improved again in the first half of 2012 as the aviation world’s single-location uber-retailer reported 11 percent growth in sales from a year …

Although close to $2 billion worth of luxury items have been sold in the United Arab Emirates this year, looking in the windows of shopping malls today will show that …

Many entrepreneurs have had their chance at launching a business thanks to loans supported by Kafalat, the government-sponsored loan guarantee company. In fact, of the 20 entrepreneurs featured in this …

Bit by bit, the Lebanese entrepreneurial puzzle is coming into place. A startup in Lebanon now can have access to incubators, accelerators and associations supporting entrepreneurship as well as financial …

Lebanese with entrepreneurial spirit and a business idea are no longer left to their own devices. Locally, they can find an incubator willing to provide a place to work from …

  In March this year the government drafted a law for the importation and use of cars that run on ultralow-sulfur diesel, also known as “green” diesel, in compliance with …

If you go by the headlines in financial reports, the car market is doing surprisingly well given the staid economic climate;  growth of 7.6 percent was registered in the first …

Lebanon’s productive sectors are often short-changed in favor of tourism, real estate and banking. What’s more, Minister of Industry Vrej Sbounjian commands a paltry budget of LL7.71 billion ($5.14 million). …

Neemat Frem is the president of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists, chief executive officer at INDEVCO Group and founder of technology service provider Phoenix Machinery. He recently sat down with …