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Statement grants state monopoly on political policy
The ministerial committee tasked with formulating the Cabinet's policy statement concluded on Thursday its discussions with another compromise granting the state monopoly over matters which relate to the country's political policy while also highlighting Leba non's right to liberate its occupied territories "by means of its army, resistance and people." Full Story |
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Lebanon's WTO entry will have little impact on agriculture
The Economy and Trade Ministry indicated that the reduction of tariffs on vegetable imports, as part of Lebanon's accession to the World Trade Organization, would have minimal impact on either Lebanese producers or consumers, as most of these imports already come from countries that are subject to very low or no customs duties, as reported by Lebanon This Week, the economic publication of the Byblos Bank Group. Full Story |
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Corruption: the deadly 'joke'
There's the old joke about the bureaucrat from our part of the world and a bureaucrat from a Western country, who meet at a conference, form a friendship and visit each other's homes over the coming years. Our bureaucrat is greatly impressed by the Westerner's villa, and asks how he could have possibly afforded it on a civil servant's salary. Continue |
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Gunpoint taxi muggings on rise in Beirut
Expats and tourists are becoming the target of armed robbers in Beirut, with six known cases of muggings at gunpoint in almost as many weeks. Each of the victims' stories plays out the same: taking a service taxi that already has another passenger in the front - either in Hamra or downtown - being driven out of their way, then having a gun put to their head and their valuables stolen. Full Story |
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The word creates the music, the movement and the movie
"The beginning created the movement, the movement created the sign; the sign, the planets, and the planets created the forms."So wrote the American-Lebanese author Etel Adnan in her book "Voyage au Mont Tamalpais" (Journey to Mount Tamalpais), and so began "JoKaRi," a multimedia performance piece enacted in the Theatre Montaigne at the Centre Culturel Francais (CCF). Full Story
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Gordon Brown's small Afghan games
By Michael Glackin
Winston Churchill famously described Russia as a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. He could just as easily have been talking about current Western policy in Afghanistan. Last week, British Premier Gordon Brown announced plans to host a conference in London next January involving NATO and the Afghan government. Continue
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Lebanese women bereft of protection
As women's rights groups worldwide are organizing events to raise awareness for the 9th International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Lebanon's women find themselves virtually unprotected against domestic violence, a number of NGO workers told The Daily Star. Amal Ftouni, media coordinator with the NGO Lebanese Council to Resist Violence against Women (LCRVAW). Full Story |
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Backroom presidential 'polls' underline European Union's democratic deficit
By Chibli Mallat
How has the largest congregation of states in modern history become so uninspiring, despite the unprecedented European peace with the establishment of the European Community in successive treaties since 1952? With 27 members over a continent famed since the Roman Empire for continuous domestic and interstate wars until 1945. Continue
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Great and good gather to celebrate Chevening scholarships
Great Britain's Ambassador to Lebanon Frances Guy and Hugo Raybaudo hosted a sparkling reception at Villa al-Lawzi last Tuesday, to introduce the Chevening program - which provides nearly 1,000 scholarships for higher education institutions in the UK for postgraduate students or researchers from over 130 countries. Nearly 100 people attended the Yarzeh event. Full Story |
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