by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | May 2, 2013 | Government
The US State Department recently issued their 2011 list of “Gifts to Federal Employees From Foreign Government Sources Reported to Employing Agencies” as reported by the Office of the Chief of Protocol. Interestingly, it’s a list of gifts high-level...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 23, 2010 | Power & Water
I just received via Electricity Minister Gebran Bassil’s official fan page on Twitter his plan (the executive summary of the plan) to reform the electricity sector in Lebanon. The 3-page document is in Arabic however, you can use Google to translate (it does a...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Mar 28, 2010 | Environment
Lebanon is planning to exempt hybrid cars from import tariffs as a way to make the country more “green”: The 2010 draft budget will include an item that will exempt companies and individuals from paying any import tariffs on hybrid cars. Finance Minister...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Dec 30, 2009 | Government
It may really happen, though I’m not sure what service you’d pay for online. The European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) has released a tender for software packages and financial information systems to develop an e-payment mechanism in...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Dec 6, 2009 | Environment, Power & Water
UPDATE: A Purple Monkey has rightly pointed out that the plan to reach 12% energy production through renewable means is scheduled for 2020 and not 2012. The source where I had obtained the information from seems to have made an error. You can find the correct (and...
