by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jul 7, 2010 | Economy
The story of the gas find off the coast of Israel (or possibly Lebanon) will not go away. Here’s a map I was able to find of the gas fields in question (from Green Prophet): Israeli billionaire, Yitzhak Tshuva, who controls Noble Energy Inc. (the company that...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jun 30, 2010 | Regional News
The UAE Foreign Ministry has released for the first time, their Foreign Aid report for 2009 covering the donations they made during that year. In total, the Emirates (government and NGOs) gave AED 8.93 billion (US$ 2.43 billion) to 92 countries across the world....
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jun 27, 2010 | Business
As Leo Burnett Beirut’s achievements are awarded by the UN Women Empowerment Campaign, another Beirut-based ad agency, Publimatt, is busted for flagrant plagiarism for their recent Hawa Chicken ad: When Jean-Remy von Matt, founder of respected German ad agency...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jun 27, 2010 | Construction
For those of you who like the changing Beirut skyline, you maybe interested to know that there is another tower coming up (for those of you who don’t like the “down with the old, build the new” craze, you might want to turn away): Dubai developer...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jun 24, 2010 | Government
You’ve all probably woke up to the news of six-storey aluminum factory that collapsed in Zouk Mosbeh. As I type this, reports are coming in of the three missing in the collapse – one has been located though it will take sometime to free him. The other two,...