Suntech Supplies Panels for Lebanon’s Largest Solar Plan (Renewable Energy World)
Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. recently supplied solar panels for 19 remote schools in Lebanon working with local partner and Lebanese integrator Asaco General Trade & Contracting. Sponsored and facilitated by the Country Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Demonstration Project for the Recovery of Lebanon (CEDRO), established through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the …
A border dispute Lebanon and Israel left one village divided … literally (MinnPost)
JERUSALEM — Mohsen Ahmed’s village grocery store, in the village of Ghajar, is on a quiet street with no sidewalk. His big display window is bare but the store and his apartment above it underscore a situation that has kept United Nations, Israeli, Lebanese and other diplomats busy over years.
Lebanon parliament rejects bill to lower voting age (AFP via Yahoo! Canada News)
BEIRUT (AFP) – Lebanon’s parliament on Monday shot down a bill to lower voting age from 21 to 18, a proposal which has sparked fears of an upheaval of the multi-confessional country’s power-sharing political structure.
Olympics: Lebanese skier in Ute garb moving on, down the slopes (The Salt Lake Tribune)
Whistler, British Columbia » When she skied into the finish area, relieved but not especially happy, Chirine Njeim was telling herself just what Kyle Hopkins would have said after she nearly careened off the super-G course in the Olympics.
Lebanon shoots down bill to lower voting age (Middle East Online)
Lebanese Christians relieved amid belief of increase in number of over-18 Muslims.
‘Lebanon army should seek help from Iran, Syria’ (Press TV)
A member of Lebanon’s parliament has called on the country’s military to expand its defensive capability through extensive cooperation with Iran and Syria.
Lebanon parliament shoots down bill to lower voting age (Gulf Times)
Lebanon’s parliament yesterday shot down a bill to lower voting age from 21 to 18, a proposal which has sparked fears of an upheaval of the multi-confessional country’s power-sharing political structure.
Iranian scholar denies directing Hezbollah (UPI)
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 22 (UPI) — Iranian support for Shiite resistance movement Hezbollah extends only to the ideological level, said a scholar at a think tank in Tehran.
Assaha Village (Evening Standard)
Lebanese restaurants in London tend to the formal, starched white tablecloths and black-suited waiters. There’s nothing inauthentic about that: there are plenty like them in Beirut , one of the many legacies of French rule.
Moussa: Arab backing for Lebanon if attacked by Israel (Monday Morning)
Moussa did not elaborate on what he meant by the lessons of 2006 or what he meant by the assurance of support. Israel launched a devastating air, ground and naval assault on Lebanon in July 2006 after guerrillas of the Hezballah movement seized two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid.
