BEIRUT: The Telecoms and Finance ministries’ recent initiative to curb widespread mobile handset smuggling – aiming to increase customs and VAT...
BEIRUT: In yet another step to keep Lebanon’s money exchange businesses under its control, the Lebanese Central Bank has forbidden small money changers...
BEIRUT: The sight of towers rising from Beirut construction sites with cranes and builders working around the hour gives the impression that Lebanon’s...
BEIRUT: Real estate developers in Beirut are tapping into a largely underdeveloped office market as demand slows for high-end residential property, experts...
BEIRUT: Despite a healthy increase in revenues from insurance premiums during the first half of the year, the association that represents the sector says the...
BEIRUT: Two years of double-digit declines in tourism and persistently weaker domestic demand are pushing operators of several international food and beverage...
BEIRUT: The Lebanese government owes contractors around $200 million for bills that have accumulated since 2011, the head of the Contractors Association said,...
BEIRUT: An extension by Lebanon of a key deadline for its first oil and gas licensing round may be a setback, but it’s not the death knell for the endeavor...
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s telecoms revenues – a key income for the cash-strapped budget – have seen a moderate decline this year amid a slowing...
BEIRUT: Starting Tuesday, Lebanese taxpayers will be able to file and pay their taxes online, the Finance Ministry announced, vowing to gradually roll out all...
BEIRUT: The Syrian Central Bank warned that foreign currency traffickers could face up to 15 years in jail without trial, as the pound seemed to recover...
BEIRUT: Net profits of the seven Lebanese banks operating in Syria have grown around 591 percent to 13.1 billion Syrian pounds, but experts dismissed the rise...
BEIRUT: A group of franchise operators joined Wednesday other private sector bodies in sounding the alarm over slowing business activity due to political and...
BEIRUT: The debate over the rehabilitation and opening of Qleiaat Airport has once again come into the spotlight as security incidents near Rafik Hariri...
BEIRUT: Lebanese industrialists are seeking a deal with religious authorities and municipalities to provide cheap land for new factories amid rising costs for...
BEIRUT: The recent kidnappings of two Turkish pilots will weigh heavily on Lebanon’s tourism sector, which has already lost $40 million in revenues during the...
BEIRUT: The Turkish operator of two barges hired by Lebanon to supply electricity said the second powership was due to arrive on Aug. 14 or 15.Turkish media...
BEIRUT: Lebanon and Iraq are starting negotiations toward settling more than $900 million of private sector debt owed by the Iraqi state to Lebanese companies...
BEIRUT: Despite ongoing efforts by the Industry Ministry to convince them otherwise, Syrian industrialists fleeing war at home are finding the costs...
BEIRUT: An ongoing slump in the real estate market is accounted for by the unwillingness of landlords and developers to reduce prices, according to some...
BEIRUT: Faced with an immense decline in tourists over the past two years, Lebanese hotels are resorting to discounts and promotions to lure in more visitors...
BEIRUT: Syrian demand for Lebanese goods has substantially increased recently, driving up exports by 6 percent in the first half of the year and industrial...
BEIRUT: Lebanese and Arab bankers are positive that Cyprus will not tap into deposits remaining in the troubled Mediterranean island. But key steps, reforms...
BEIRUT: The Central Administration for Statistics released Monday an updated Consumer Price Index for the first time since the government stopped reporting...
BEIRUT: Dozens of lawsuits have been filed at Lebanese courts amid an ongoing dispute between owners and tenants over rent hikes tied by law to a wage...