Lebanon
July 9, 2000
graph & table BLOM index This edition of “The Lebanon Brief”is the 200th ,the first having been published just a few weeks following the re-opening of the Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE)at the start o
July 8, 2000
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, head of the Lebanese Hizbollah movement, made a televised call Saturday for the Palestinians to step up their fight against I
Two Lebanese Christian groups, hostile to Syria's presence in the country, criticized Saturday the opening of polling stations in Lebanon for Syrian c
The head of the Lebanese Hizbollah movement, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, was awarded an honorary degree by the teacher-training faculty of Tehran Univers
A military court sentenced 20 people to prison terms ranging from one year to four years for collaborating with Israel during its occupation of southe
UN special envoy Terje Roed-Larsen said Friday that conditions were still not in place for the deployment of UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, more
July 7, 2000
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, head of Hizbollah group, warned Friday that Israel posed a dangerous presence in the region. Nasrallah, who arrived in Iran o
United Nations special envoy Terje Roed-Larsen arrived in Lebanon Friday, UN spokesman Nagib Friji told AFP, amid continued bickering over Israeli vio
Three Palestinian refugees were wounded in a refugee camp clash in south Lebanon on Thursday, reported Reuters, quoting witnesses. They said the thre
Israel accused Lebanon Thursday of giving "free rein" to nearly 50 cross-border attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians and demanded an immediate en
July 6, 2000
It’s been a year of firsts for singer and songwriter Alanis Morissette. After performing in Beijing in June she kicked off her current tour in Lebanon
A group of Lebanese, affiliated with the Hizbollah movement, marched Thursday to an Israeli border crossing, where they taunted Israeli troops with th
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Wednesday that Israeli violations of the newly drawn border with Lebanon were "really not major issues" and st
Solidere S.A.L. has invited it shareholders to attend a third General Assembly, after a quorum was not reached at the first two attempts, to be held on June 30 th , 2000 at the Bristol Hotel. During t
The BDL’s broad measure of economic activity in Lebanon, the coincident indicator (an average of several weighted economic indicators), dropped 8.05% in April 2000 to 182.8. On a year-to-year basis, t