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Music Ends for Beirut’s Hard Rock Café
After 17 years of existence, the Beirut franchise of the Hard Rock Cafe closed its doors, as announced in a statement on the restaurant’s FB page on Sept. 9. The American chain first opened inside the Bay View Hotel in Ein el-Mreisseh in 1996.
Banking in Ghana is not an easy task. Competition is neck-deep and the jostle for customers continues unabated. Realizing how tight the banking environment was, uniBank quickly carved a niche for the bank as one that cares for its customers.
Felix Nyarko-Pong: Biography
Felix Nyarko-Pong is the Chief Executive Officer of uniBank Ghana Limited
Mr. John Taylor talks about the oil industry in Ghana and presents Cirrus Oil Services, a wholly Ghanaian owned company, licensed as a bulk oil distributor in 2007. Cirrus has become a market leader in the storage and distribution of premium petroleum products in Ghana, such as Gasoil, Gasoline and Aviation Fuel.
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Statement by Barack Obama on Syria
Ten days ago, the world watched in horror as people were massacred in Syria in the worst chemical weapons attack of the 21st century. The US presented a powerful case that the Syrian government was responsible for this attack.
“Digital media literacy has become a staple of education all around the world, except in the Arab region, We (American University of Beirut) hope to bridge this gap,” said Jad Melki, the director of the Media Studies Program at AUB.
A cautionary note to recent graduates and others on the employment market, a recent survey shows the Lebanese employers are in a mixed hiring mode this upcoming economic quarter.
Time was in America, young men would run off to the circus for adventure; dreaming of glamour as lion tamers, strongmen, and fame as aerialist defying gravity like flying heroes… For the now 60-something-year-old Claude Salhani the circus of the Middle East was right outside his front door, and he picked up a camera to record it all…
Faces of Economy – Lebanon
FACES OF THE ECONOMY: Mazen Hajjar
There are 1.4 million workers in Lebanon – this is the story of one of them.
In July 2006, as Israel was unleashing a wave of bombs onto Lebanon, Mazen Hajjar received a phone call from his business partner asking him if he had registered the beer brewing company they had thought up.
Libya Top Stories
Jumhouria Bank: Helping to finance the reconstruction of Libya
“It is the largest bank in Libya with a large volume of assets and good profits especially for the potential market in Libya,” bank General Manager Ahmed I. Rajab told Marcopolis. “This was especially true in 2012 based on a lot of contracts that have already been signed by the government and international companies, especially for construction and the infrastructure of the country.”
