BMI sees lower growth rate for Lebanon in 2009 (The Daily Star Lebanon)
Business Monitor International (BMI) revised downward its growth projection for the Lebanese economy for 2009 to 2.5 percent from 4.5 percent, citing negative external conditions, infrastructure shortages and a potential real estate correction as factors keeping growth below its potential, according to Lebanon This Week.
Drama therapy brings some hope to Lebanese prisoners – Feature (EARTHtimes.org)
Roumieh, Lebanon – In European countries, drama therapy in jails is common, but for Lebanese inmates it is a new activity they have been introduced to this year by a director seeking to help them to express themselves and communicate with others. Zei…
Lebanon’s Hariri urges more Arab joint investments (Zawya)
BEIRUT, Feb 4 (KUNA) — Lebanon’s Future Bloc in Parliament Saad Al-Hariri stressed here Wednesday Arab economic cooperation should be further developed through more joint investments.
Lebanon’s Ex-President Emile Lahoud declares exclusively: “We are in a State of War with Israel” (Foreign Policy Blogs)
I interviewed former Lebanese President last year. You have few excerpts here: Manuela Paraipan: What are the few crucial moments that you can recall during your time as President of Lebanon and are willing to speak of? Emile Lahoud: There were more than a few such moments, during 18 years, because I was Commander in Chief for [...]
Israel intercepts Lebanese aid ship bound for Gaza (EARTHtimes.org)
Beirut – An Israeli gunboat late Wednesday intercepted a Lebanese ship carrying medical aid and other supplies bound for Gaza, the organizer of the Lebanese delivery said. The Brotherhood Ship was fired on by an Israeli military boat 20 miles (32 ki…
Lebanese army and UN forces discover rockets in southern Lebanon (EARTHtimes.org)
Beirut – Five rockets were found late Wednesday near Naqoura close to the southern Lebanon border with Israel, a Lebanese army statement said, adding that they were not primed. The five 122mm rockets were found near the valley of Houmel, northeast of…
Five rockets found in south Lebanon: army (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News)
TYRE, Lebanon (AFP) – Lebanese soldiers and UN peacekeepers on Wednesday discovered five rockets in the south of the country five kilometres (three miles) from the Israeli border, the army and the UN said.
INDICATORS – Lebanon – Updated Feb 4 (Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News)
BEIRUT, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Below is a table of the latest Lebanese economic statistics.
Iran wants joint committee with Lebanon on missing diplomats (People’s Daily)
Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad Reza Shibani has urged that his country wants to form a joint committee with Lebanon to look into the case of the four missing Iranian diplomats in Lebanon since 1982, As-Safir daily reported Wednesday. Shibani made the call after meeting Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh, saying “the Islamic republic is calling to form an Iranian-Lebanese committee …
Hariri confident financial crisis spared Lebanon (The Daily Star Lebanon)
Deputy Saad Hariri said on Wednesday that all indications show that Lebanon has not been affected by the global financial crisis. Speaking at the opening the Lebanese Omani Businessmen Forum at the Movenpick Hotel, Hariri added that the Lebanese banks demonstrated a rare capability to withstand all the violent financial shocks.
