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 | Oct 23, 2009 | Government
Something magical happens to diamonds soon after they arrive in Lebanon: “85 percent of the diamonds arrive as industrial worth a couple dollars a carat, but some 250,000 more carats leave as gem-quality diamonds than arrive – worth 36 times their import...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Oct 15, 2009 | Government
We’re in. Nigeria, Brazil, Bosnia, Lebanon and Gabon won seats on the UN Security Council on Thursday. The five countries faced no opposition in their bid for seats on the UN’s most powerful body and were elected on the first ballot by the 192-member...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Sep 23, 2009 | Government
Remember our bid for the UN Security Council? Well, apparently there’s another catch: Lebanon needs a fully functioning government to take up a rotating Security Council seat it is due to fill next year, a senior U.N. official said on Wednesday. So once again,...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Aug 26, 2009 | Government
It could happen: Lebanon is expected to be elected a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for a period of two years at the end of next month, in the 64th session of the UN General Assembly. With the backing of 21 Arab nations, Lebanon’s election is...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jul 30, 2009 | Government, Media
Talk is brewing online concerning ‘Brand Lebanon’, an idea that there needs to be a centralized authority (thanks to A Purple Monkey for the link) to market Lebanon to the world – like a Tourism Ministry on steroids. I like the idea of thinking big....
