by Dana Halawi BEIRUT (Xinhua) — As Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri is expected to hold a news conference Tuesday, political analysts and officials are having mixed opinions about the destiny of the long-running formation of the national unity government. Hariri is expected to hold a news conference at his residence in downtown Beirut at 1:30 […]

BEIRUT — (Xinhua) — A representative of the Lebanese economic sector said on Sunday that about 2,200 companies have closed down in Lebanon since the start of this year because of economic slowdown. “We are on the verge of an economic breakdown,” Mohamad Choucair, head of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, said in […]

BEIRUT (Reuters) – The leader of the Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah insisted that one of its Sunni allies be given a portfolio in a new Lebanese cabinet, and indicated it would be ready to go back to square one in negotiating a government if necessary. In a televised speech on Saturday, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah also warned […]

By Heba Kanso BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The hashtag #ShameOnWho? is being deployed as part of a new street art campaign in Lebanon to try to change attitudes to rape in a country where victim shaming remains common. The group behind the campaign, which launched this week, said it wanted to “shake” Lebanese society out […]

Beirut (AsiaNews) –by Fady Noun —  A catastrophic picture has been painted of the internal situation in Lebanon yesterday in some passages of the final communiqué of the Assembly of the Maronite bishops at the end of their monthly meeting. The prelates, led by the Patriarch launched the alarm for an “internal war” that brings […]

More than 7 million jobs in the American economy remained vacant in September, comfortably outnumbering the roughly 6 million workers seeking employment. The number of job openings dropped slightly from the previous month’s record of 7.3 million to 7.125 million, according to the Labor Department. The number of unemployed people actively seeking jobs inched up […]

by aawsat.com — Lebanese caretaker Tourism Minister Avedis Guidanian issued on Tuesday an apology to Egypt after criticizing the country’s cleanliness and living conditions. Guidanian, in an interview published on Monday by Lebanon’s English-language Daily Star, complained that negative media reports about Lebanon were harming his country’s image and hindering tourism. “Look at Egypt – […]

by Rosalie Chan —thisisinsider.com — – Turns out the hottest job of 2018 could be that of a DevOps engineer. LinkedIn just released its report on the most-recruited jobs of 2018, showing that DevOps engineer was the most recruited job, followed by enterprise account executives and frontend engineers, in second and third place, respectively. This job is […]

The ghost apartments of Beirut are haunting the economy. Permanently-drawn curtains on the city’s empty luxury high-rises and dust gathering over shuttered storefronts in the Beirut Souks mall offer a glimpse of the economic gloom gathering over one of the world’s most indebted countries. Prolonged conflict in neighboring Syria and political divisions at home have […]

MASNAA, Lebanon (Reuters) – Lebanese exporters hoping to send their goods to the lucrative Gulf market through the reopened Syrian-Jordanian border are grappling with higher Syrian customs duties and competition from producers who have taken their place. The Oct. 15 reopening of the Nassib border crossing holds out the prospect of a much-needed boost for […]