From : The Daily Star By: Emma Gatten BEIRUT: A submarine cable which will give Internet service providers the capacity they need to supply high-speed Internet services, including 3G, was put into action Monday, after months of waiting. “The tap was closed, and now it’s open,” Antoine Boustany, an adviser to Telecoms Minister Nicolas Sehnawi said Tuesday. In a...
Every year, many movies are subject to censorship by Lebanese authorities. Because of this practice of the Lebanese authorities, The Beirut International Film Festival is organizing a festival of banned films, where 5 films will be showing. The festival will start on June 22nd and end on June 26th. During this festival, movies that were banned by the Lebanese...
I have always been living the diet dilemma. I go on a diet for a period of time, get to my ideal weight and then loose track, gain weight and go back to point zero. It’s a vicious circle! It is not realistic to always avoid food that make you gain weight and the reason is hat they taste...
Margherita (Ghita) Abi-Hanna was born in Kuwait in 1979 where she spent the first ten years of her life. In 1990, her family moved back to Lebanon. She continued her high school education at the Lycée Franco-Libanais and then completed her studies at the American University of Beirut, obtaining a Bachelor in Graphic Design with distinction in 2002. ...
Our faces aren’t the only parts of our body that succumb to lifelong sun exposure and collagen breakdown. The good news is that just as there are treatments to rejuvenate aging skin on the face, there are treatments that can make the neck, décolleté, hands and legs more youthful. When we look for the reasons for our aging skin,...
By Bloomberg Cement production in Lebanon is running at three times the level of 2006, when it amounted to 2 million tons, the Daily Star reported, citing information given by caretaker Industry Minister Apraham Dedeyan at a conference. Three manufacturers produce most of Lebanon’s cement; 5 million tons a year are used locally and 1 million tons are exported,...
