Syria
February 14, 2000
Investment Incentives Encouragement of Investment Law (Law No. 10) The Encouragement of Investment Law, No. 10 of May 1991, was enacted to encourage investments in economic and social development p
Banking and Currency Foreign Currency Control Exchange control is carried out on behalf of the government by the Central Bank, which may authorize certain banks and agencies to deal in foreign exch
Legal Analysis Judiciary According to the Constitution of 1973, the Syrian Arab Republic is a democratic, popular, socialist and sovereign state with a republican system of government. The Constit
Franchising Syrian regulations have made foreign franchising virtually impossible. There is one American fast-food franchise in the country. The concept of franchising, especially the prospects fo
Syria remains one of the Middle East’s most isolated economies, resisting the economic trends sweeping the rest of the region (i.e. privatization). The government still keeps intact many policies that
General Data Population 16 million (1999) Population Growth Rate 3.3% Religion 70% Sunni Muslim, 12% Alawi, 14% Christian (various sects), 3% Druze and small number of Jews, Yazidis and other Mu
February 9, 2000
February 14th. That is the day many Syrians are marking in their calendars because it is the day that the country's trial cellular network will be ina
February 8, 2000
As Syrian society slowly becomes more computerized, the Tourism Ministry has developed a plan to link all tourism and travel agencies country-wide to
February 3, 2000
Nader Al-Sibai, won the first award in al-Sharjha Competition For Literary Creation for his first novel, The White Wolf (Damascus, 1999). Nadar Al-S
February 2, 2000
Not with all the essential players. Not under the right weather conditions. And not for long enough. Tishreen daily reports that these were some of t
January 20, 2000
The Syrian football team has a long way to go before it will be able compete in the Asian Nations Football Cup tournament as it was crushed 3-0 in a f
December 9, 1999
Nearly 120 storywriters from 7 nations competed in the 4th contest of the Sheikha Fatema Bint Hazzaa Bin Zayed Award for Arab children's stories in t
December 6, 1999
Residents of Sweidah in the Druze Mountain region are the latest Syrians to be exposed to the world of information technology and the Internet through
January 1, 1970
The Damascus-based Popular and Democratic Fronts for the Liberation of Palestine have predicted that the uprising against the Israeli occupation will