by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 23, 2011 | Economy
If you are a Lebanese expat and regularly send money back to your home country, you can give yourself a pat on the back for keeping Lebanon economically kicking: In Lebanon, which is the world’s eighth-largest recipient of overseas remittances, remittance inflows...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jan 29, 2010 | Lebanese Abroard
Imagine receiving a US$500 tip from a Lebanese businessman for a work well-done. Now imagine instead of giving you five 100-dollar bills, he gives you a single 500-dollar bill: When a Malaysian hotel cleaner was tipped $500 by a high-rolling, self-proclaimed Lebanese...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 23, 2009 | Lebanese Abroard
Now is that even possible? [Bahraini] MPs yesterday decided to question a top government official over what they claimed was her lavish spending on Lebanese employees. MP Shaikh Mohammed Khalid Mohammed highlighted the issue at yesterday’s session, saying it was...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 28, 2009 | Lebanese Abroard
I consider Lebanese to Lebanon’s number one export. No matter where you are in the world, you are bound to run into someone who shares your nationality. Of course, we emigrants can enrich the new society we join… SECRETARY CLINTON: …And it is...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Mar 15, 2009 | Light Humor
Grab your metal detectors, there’s gold in Lebanon: The mortgage broker who posted an online confession last month before fleeing the country on a private jet has been returned to Sacramento to face a 44-count federal indictment. … He left the U.S. the...
