According to Al-Yaum newspaper, the Dubai-based AL HABTOOR Group is to inaugurate a new five-star hotel in the heart if Beirut City in the current year.
Participating in a demonstration headed by Sidon MP Bahia Hariri, sister of slain former Premier Rafik Hariri, which marched from the site of the blast that killed her brother to the Sporting Club in Manara, the United Arab Emirates real-estate development tycoon Khalaf al-Habtoor, chairman of Al-Habtoor Group, asserted that his company will expand its investments in Lebanon despite the reservations of many Arab Gulf investors about investing in the country.