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The Silk Road Chamber for International Commerce (SRCIC) is ready to grant $2 billion in loans with low interest rates to the local market, according to Adnan Kassar, Chairman of the Economic Bodies and the founding father of…

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) estimated that the travel & tourism (T&T) industry would directly contribute $3.4bn to the Lebanese economy in 2017, equivalent to about 7.1% of GDP, compared to about 10% of GDP in…

The new Lebanese Nationality Program website was launched by the Lebanese government to help Lebanese people abroad (who don’t have their citizenship) reclaim their Lebanese nationality. This is an…

Bank Audi has estimated GDP growth will reach four percent in 2017. “This is more than double the average it reported in the past six years (1.8 percent),” Bank Audi stated in its fourth quarter ‘Lebanon Economic Report.’ The GDP increase…

Lebanon relaunched its first oil and gas exploration and production licensing round after a three-year delay, its energy minister said, kick-starting the development of a hydrocarbon industry stalled by national political paralysis. Lebanon…

The information and communication technology (ICT) market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.7 percent to $543 million by 2019, according to ‘Investment Opportunities in the ICT Sector-2016’, a report published…

The finds of 95 million year old fossils, in 2009, reveal much earlier origins of modern octopuses. These are among the rarest and unlikeliest of fossils. The chances of an octopus corpse surviving long enough to be fossilized are so…

The article below is a compilation of web and Library research done by Bassam AlKantar. It reflects a diverse points of views of Foreign, Lebanese immigrants, Lebanese researchers and thinkers regarding the Lebanese Diaspora and Communities…