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The end game for developing countries, in this day and age, is the ability to attract and maintain capital investment. The catalyst to this inflow is, broadly speaking, a mix …

They say the people know best. It is possibly why we have the concept of democracy. When the extension of the presidential mandate was bullied through parliament and the UN …

In the United States today more than a third of all plane tickets are bought on the web, thanks in great part to the fact that 68% of the country’s …

With Lebanon having crossed the Rubicon of the Mehlis report, it must now prepare for the storm that will follow. In many respects, the country will have to use the …

The figures from the Investcom IPO were truly phenomenal, making it the biggest international share sale by a Middle East company. Some 59.9 million Global Depositary Shares (GDS) with a …

To listen to Jean Riachi tell it, the massive success of Investcom’s recent IPO offering could have been predicted by anyone in possession of even the most basic understanding of …

Since the Syrian retreat last April and the euphoria of the Cedar Revolution a month earlier, more and more examples of how public money was squandered, stolen or simply squirreled …

In early September, the daily Al-Anwar, citing “financial circles,” wrote that investigators looking into the accounts of the four generals arrested on the recommendation of United Nations investigator Detlev Mehlis, …

Once again it appears that Lebanese history is being written with the blood of our fellow journalists. May Chidiac was marked for death not for who she is, but for …

In August 2005, Tarek Ayntrazi, the Starcom Group’s Middle East chief executive, left the media-buying arm of Leo Burnett after 15 years with the company, to head up Future TV …