“Everywhere around us, everyday Children are denied their rights,” Tanya Chapuisat, UNICEF representative in Lebanon, said at the launch of the joint EU-UNICEF Child Rights Toolkit Wednesday. “Society and the time we live in often take this for granted. It shouldn’t be so and that’s why we are here today.” ... Read More »
Members of the International Support Group for Lebanon yesterday called on Lebanese politicians to work together to reach a new electoral law and conduct timely elections. The group urged political leaders to reach “an early compromise, which would present an appropriate electoral framework for Lebanon.” It also called for “timely, ... Read More »
Tenants briefly blocked a road in Beirut with burning tires Wednesday after previous protests failed to convince authorities to revoke a controversial rent law. The rally was held in the Mathaf area, causing heavy traffic. In January, Parliament endorsed a rent law that would incrementally increase fees for tenants on ... Read More »
Information Minister Melhem Riachi discussed possible media cooperation with Chinese Ambassador to Lebanon Wang Kejian Wednesday. “Lebanon’s media sector has a large impact not only in the country but regionwide as well,” the state-run National News Agency reported Wang as saying after the ambassador expressed interested in working with Lebanon ... Read More »
Prime Minister Saad Hariri will head to Egypt next month for the first meeting of the Lebanese-Egyptian Joint Higher Committee since 2010, Egypt’s Ambassador to Lebanon announced after meeting with the prime minister Wednesday. “I had the honor of meeting with Prime Minister Hariri to discuss the preparation of upcoming ... Read More »
Melhem Antoun Riachy is from “Khenchara” in the district of North Metn. He is a writer, a journalist, and a researcher in Middle East affairs and comparative religions, having several studies in this field. He is a consultant in political affairs and strategic negotiations, a professor of Geostrategic communication in ... Read More »
Melhem Antoun Riachy is from “Khenchara” in the district of North Metn. He is a writer, a journalist, and a researcher in Middle East affairs and comparative religions, having several studies in this field. He is a consultant in political affairs and strategic negotiations, a professor of Geostrategic communication in ... Read More »
‘We have to knock the hell out of Isis – and we have to do it fast,’ Trump told the world. Well, sure, but haven’t we all been knocking the hell out of Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, even Lebanon, and achieving the constant rebirth of ever more vicious warriors, of ... Read More »
China has begun operating the world’s largest radio telescope to help search for extraterrestrial life. The project, along with the recent launch of China’s second space station, demonstrates the country’s rising astronomical ambitions and its pursuit of international scientific prestige. The official Xinhua News Agency said hundreds of astronomers and ... Read More »
Banks are reporting a huge excess in cash in Lebanese pounds resulting from a swap operation engineered by the Central Bank earlier this year. “The Central Bank purchased around LL10 trillion [$6.6 billion] of Treasury bills and CDs held by commercial banks and paid them in advance the return on ... Read More »
Lebanese Ministry of Information
