ByTheEast Desk (Lebanon)
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Algerians protest in Algiers, Paris: “We want our democracy back”
Yesterday our Paris correspondent David Hury was in the crowd on the Republic Square. As in Algiers and in other European cities, Algerians had...
Fouad Zmokhol on reforming Lebanon: “It’s time to act”
ByTheEast: A few weeks ago, Beirut hosted the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit which turned out to be a fiasco. Economic commentators pointed...
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What they said about the new Cabinet
President
Michel Aoun: “The government comprises new faces and they are good, but it is
surprising that we have started...
Iraq’s crude oil exports to jump in 2019
Crude oil exports from Iraq is set to jump om 2019, said the country’s Oil Minister Thamer Ghadhban. He went on to add, Iraq...
Lebanon’s domestic gas production policy
Domestic
gas production in Lebanon is set boom with the country’s energy
minister Cesar Abi Khalil saying Lebanon plans on starting new rounds
of offshore explorations to...
Economic ties between Turkey-Germany reset
Economic ties between Turkey and German could potentially see an upswing. On the eve of talks between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish President...
EBRD to invest ‘$200 million by next year’ in Lebanon
Alain Pilloux is the vice president for banking at EBRD, or the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, whereby Pilloux revealed that the bank...
Financial assistance used as negotiation tool in Palestine
U.S. assistance of $25 million to 6 hospitals which were primarily serving Palestinians in Jerusalem has been cut, confirmed an official from the U.S....
Lebanese banks playing pivotal role for economic stability
Lebanese banks are doing all that they can to pump in more dollars to the economy. In a move in that direction, customers willing...
Lebanese banking sector records ‘$4.7 billion’ growth
The “Lebanon Weekly Monitor” of Bank Audi reported that the Lebanese banking sector witnessed a rise in the assets and deposits made by customers...