Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Wednesday welcomed in her office at the Ministry former MP Ghassan Mukhaiber, with whom she discussed the Ministry’s strategic plan. On emerging, Moukhaiber said: “We discussed the issue of the strategic plan of the Ministry of Information and the restructuring of ...

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Wednesday welcomed representatives of digital media portals in West Bekaa, Zahle, and Baalbek-Hermel regions. During the meeting, Minister Abdel Samad confirmed that she echoed the voice of the media in the government, stressing that she prefers “to work in silence.” She ...

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Wednesday welcomed President of the Belarusian Alumni Association in Lebanon, Engineer Marwan Al-Zuhairi, with whom she discussed media cooperation. “Delegated by the Belarusian embassy in Damascus, I have met with Minister Abdel Samad to negotiate a cooperation agreement between the Lebanese ...

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Wednesday regretted via twitter that some of the Lebanese citizens have lost trust in the current government due to the malpractices of governments in previous tenures. “Within the past few months, my late work hours have prevented me from going to ...

Lebanon’s economic crisis has led to a collapse of the local currency and purchasing power, plunging whole segments of society into poverty as exemplified by near-empty fridges in many households. Earlier this year, Lebanon defaulted on its debt and, while the peg to the dollar remains unchanged, the pound has ...

The Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that 19 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon. The cases were divided as follows: 12 among the residents and 7 among the returnees. LBCI

The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Tuesday said it expects global trade to drop around 18.5% in the second quarter of 2020, adding that restrictions being gradually lifted to contain the Covid-19 suggest that trade may have possibly bottomed out in the second quarter of 2020. The volume of merchandise ...

Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, received Tuesday at her ministry office, a delegation of the Cultural Forum of Arab Tribes in Lebanon, chaired by Sheikh Talal Daher.   The meeting reportedly touched on the current general situation on the local scene, in addition to the Forum’s activities. NNA

Minister of Industry, Dr. Imad Hoballah, and Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Monday inaugurated a media gathering at the Industrial Research Institute, titled “Media production is a need for industrial production”. The MoC signature event, which aims to activate cooperation between the industrial and media sectors, ...

The Ministry of Health announced on Monday that 16 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon, bringing the total number of cases to 1603. The new cases were divided as follows: 11 among the residents and 5 cases among the returnees. The ministry said during its daily report that no ...