by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 31, 2011 | Society
Lebanese-developed Birdy Nam Nam may be the next big hit since Angry Birds: Launched on August 22nd, the game has already clocked over 400,000 downloads in less than a week. The 3-man team, consisting of Lebnan Nader, Arz Nader and JC, initially released the game in...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 14, 2011 | Society
[notice]An update (2012) to this post is available here: Lebanon Remains at the Bottom of Visa Free Travel Index[/notice] Henley and Partners (H&P), a global legal firm that deals with immigration, has released their 2011 International Visa Restriction List. Last...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 8, 2011 | Society
Lebanese soprano, Tania Kassis, was so inspired on her trip to demilitarized zone between the two Koreas that she has decided to sing about it: “I’ve decided to make a song about South and North Korea in both English and Korean,” Tania Kassis said in an...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 7, 2011 | Society
Life in Dubai blogger, Seabee, sent me a link to a recent teaser article in The Australian which describes a visit to Beirut. In a nutshell, the short excerpt provides readers with the history of Beirut as well as the Solidere-St. George issue. However, there’s...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jul 28, 2011 | Society
Badoo.com has released their own study on the top ten cities that do not sleep. The survey was done by analyzing online chat activity in the wee-hours of the morning. Here are the top ten nocturnal cities: Cairo, Egypt Montevideo, Uruguay Beirut, Lebanon Malaga, Spain...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jul 7, 2011 | Society
The World Justice Project has released its 2011 Rule of Law Index covering 66 countries across the world. The WJP divides the world into regions and ranks countries based on the region they are in. For the Middle East and North Africa, only 5 countries are surveyed...