BEIRUT: The long-awaited salary hike for government employees and public school teachers is expected to be passed by Parliament after the Amal Movement agreed...
BEIRUT: The National Social Security Fund Wednesday threatened to revoke the contracts with hospitals if they refuse to abide by the rates of medical supplies...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s only cargo airline is facing an uncertain future, after the company incurred $230 million losses, prompting the management to press...
BEIRUT: A Danish company has suspended all work on two electricity projects in Lebanon after the Finance Ministry withheld payments under the pretext that the...
BEIRUT: Bank Audi, the largest Lebanese bank in terms of deposits and assets, is convinced that their expansion into Syria and Egypt will pay off once peace...
BEIRUT: The Central Bank will again come to the rescue of Parliament if lawmakers do not approve the issuance of new sovereign Eurobonds, bankers and...
BEIRUT: The occupation of Electricite du Liban’s (EDL) headquarters is expected to have a dire effect on the revenues of the company next month, a...
BEIRUT: Some bankers have said that European states are expected to follow the example of the United States and ask their citizens abroad to disclose their...
BEIRUT: The Finance Ministry said Wednesday that the treasury has money to pay the salaries of civil servants for only two months, and any additional funds...
BEIRUT: The United States proposed three different ways of resolving a dispute between Lebanon and Israel over offshore borders, according to a classified...
BEIRUT: Lebanese companies and Middle East Airlines are continuing to operate in Iraq’s Irbil as other foreign firms evacuate and international carriers...
BEIRUT: Lebanon will reschedule the offshore gas auction again after the Cabinet failed to discuss two decrees setting the number of blocks and the share of...
BEIRUT: The state-owned Public Housing Institute got a badly needed shot in the arm when Finance Minister Ali Hasan Khalil Thursday released $6.6 million to...
BEIRUT: The Cypriot Central Bank took over the management of operations of the Lebanese-owned FBME Bank in Cyprus Friday, a day after the United States...
BEIRUT: Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil Thursday reiterated his position that salaries of civil servants and military personnel will not be paid end of...
BEIRUT: Lebanon will once again postpone the gas auction which was scheduled for Aug. 10 as some ministers expressed their dissatisfaction over the...
BEIRUT: Implementing badly needed reforms in government departments has been the goal of almost all successive governments. One of the demands that surfaced...
BEIRUT: Finance Minister Ali Hasan Khalil and the budget and finance parliamentary committee have failed Tuesday to find an acceptable formula to pay the...
BEIRUT: Faced with increasing budgetary restraints and high cost of oil, Electricite du Liban announced Friday that it is compelled to close a number of power...
BEIRUT: The ongoing civil servants strike will have dire effects on the government’s revenues and could widen the budget deficit if the salary scale...
BEIRUT: Lebanese banks are confident that a proposed United States law tightening financial sanctions on Hezbollah won’t affect the local banking...
BEIRUT: The Petroleum Administration has made some changes to the two key decrees awaiting Cabinet approval before the first round of licensing for oil and...
BEIRUT: Cedrus Invest Bank is expected to formally acquire the retail operations of Standard Chartered Bank operations in Lebanon, having finalized details...
BEIRUT: Public Works and Transport Minister Ghazi Zeaiter expressed surprise Wednesday at the European Union’s warning that it would ban Lebanese...