Ecommerce in Lebanon is still in its infancy - what challenges does this pose online entrepreneurs in the country?

NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service on Tuesday warned it could cut Lebanon's government bond rating on potential spillover effects from Syria's civil war, including suppressed...

NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service on Tuesday warned it could cut Lebanon's government bond rating on potential spillover effects from Syria's civil war, including suppressed growth and political instability.

UNITED NATIONS, May 7 (Reuters) - The U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon has protested to Israel after it observed increased violations of Lebanese air space by Israel, which carried out raids in Syria to target what it said were Iranian mis

WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - The air strike Israel carried out in Syria targeted a shipment of missiles from Iran bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

Following a week of increased Israeli Air Force activity over Lebanon, Israel reportedly struck Syrian targets with their air force either Thursday or Friday the 26th of April. Initial reports said the target was a chemical weapons facility, which wa

BEIRUT, April 26 (Reuters) - Lebanese lender Byblos Bank said on Friday its net profit in the first quarter of 2013 fell $3 million to $35.7 million after allocating provisions for credit losses.

GENEVA, April 26 (Reuters) - Doctors at Syrian refugee campsin Lebanon and Jordan are having to decide between treatingacute cancer patients and helping deliver babies due to severeshortages of cash, the United Nations said on Friday.

GENEVA, April 26 (Reuters) - Doctors at Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan are having to decide between treating acute cancer patients and helping deliver babies due to severe shortages of cash, the United Nations said on Friday.

AMMAN, April 25 (Reuters) - The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said on Thursday it did not send a drone into Israeli airspace, hours after Israel said it had shot down a drone from Lebanon.

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Lebanon has shortlisted 46 international oil firms, including U.S. giant ExxonMobil Corp. (XOM), Chevron Corp. (CVX) and France's Total SA (TOT), for its first oil and natural gas licensing round in its Mediterranean coastal waters, the Petroleum Adm

By Laila Bassam BEIRUT, April 18 (Reuters) - Lebanon has selected 46 international oil companies to bid to explore for gas in its Mediterranean waters, Energy Minister Gebran Bassil said on Thursday. Bassil said 12 firms could bid as operators and th

BEIRUT, April 18 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Bank Audi reported a 9.5 percent drop in first-quarter net profit to $85.5 million from a year ago, weighed down by the costs of launching Turkish subsidiary...

BEIRUT, April 18 (Reuters) - Lebanon's Bank Audi reported a 9.5 percent drop in first-quarter net profit to $85.5 million from a year ago, weighed down by the costs of launching Turkish subsidiary Odeabank.

BEIRUT, April 18 (Reuters) - Lebanon has selected 46 international oil companies to bid to explore for gas in its Mediterranean waters, Energy Minister Gebran Bassil said on Thursday.

LONDON, April 12 (IFR) - The Lebanese Republic, rated B1/B/B, has priced a USD600m tap of its January 27 2023 notes at a reoffer of 98.882 to yield 6.15% and a USD500m tap of its November 29 2027 at reoffer of 100.451 to yield 6.7%, according to a le

NEW YORK, April 10 (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's on Wednesday affirmed its speculative B sovereign foreign currency credit rating on Lebanon, citing a speedy naming of a new prime minister as one...

LONDON, April 9 (IFR) - The Lebanese Republic, rated B1/B/B, plans to raise new funds by tapping its 2023 and 2027 dollar bonds, according to one of the lead managers.

Hizbollah is probably realistic enough to know the Assads cannot win, and that it could be left on the wrong side of history, writes David Gardner

Syria's civil war, two years in the making, has come to neighboring Lebanon, pulling rival Sunni and Shiite factions into a confrontation that threatens to tear the country apart.

Ankara hosts 187,000 civil war refugees in 17 camps with 200,000 more in towns. In Lebanon, officials believe Syrians make up quarter of populace

LONDON, April 4 (IFR) - The Lebanese Republic, rated B1/B/B, has hired Fransa Invest Bank, Natixis, and Standard Chartered to arrange the placement of a U.S. dollar-denominated Eurobond, according to...

LONDON, April 4 (IFR) - The Lebanese Republic, rated B1/B/B, has hired Fransa Invest Bank, Natixis, and Standard Chartered to arrange the placement of a US dollar-denominated Eurobond, according to one of the lead managers.

Mikati couldn’t hack it any moreIN THEORY Lebanon is an independent republic and in theory a democracy, which in theory rests upon a fair division of spoils between some 17 officially recognised religious “sects”. As long as everyone suspends d

The Australian known as "Prisoner X", who died in an Israeli prison in 2010, had been arrested after a bungled and unauthorised bid to recruit a double agent with links to Lebanon's Hizbollah, according to reports. The man, Ben Zygier, was arrested i

PM’s resignation was another alarming sign of the country’s downward spiral, and the most powerful tremor to hit Lebanon from the civil war in Syria

Mikati’s resignation triggered by cabinet’s failure to agree on a law governing elections and refusal to extend the appointment of a senior security chief

Lebanon's prime minister resigned, effectively dissolving the government and thrusting the country into political uncertainty at a time when the conflict in Syria is sparking sectarian tensions.

BEIRUT, March 22 (Reuters) - Lebanon's cabinet referred a draft law on a new public wage scale to parliament early on Friday, bowing to popular pressure but endangering efforts to control a runaway budget deficit.

A Cypriot court convicted a 24-year-old member of Hezbollah on charges he plotted terror attacks against Jews last summer, a decision that could raise pressure on the EU to blacklist the Lebanon-based group.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Lebanon is embarking on an ambitious plan to bolster its telecommunications industry with a tender to run its two state-owned mobile telephone operators. But as with many of the country's economic plans, politics and entrenched fina

* Tender to run two mobile operators expected in mid-April

BEIRUT, March 20 (Reuters) - Ninety-seven oil companies andmore than 100 other firms have requested application documentsin the pre-qualifying bid round for oil and gas exploration inLebanon's offshore waters, an official at Lebanon's energyministry

Two U.S.-educated Syrians emerged during a meeting of opposition leaders as leading candidates to become prime minister of an interim government, as the Syrian government shelled targets in Lebanon in what the U.S. called a "significant escalation" o

ON A recent flight from Beirut to Addis Ababa, Lebanese businessmen were swapping stories. “Business is excellent in Angola,” declared one. “I hear it’s good in Ghana?” inquired another. Flights out of Lebanon buzz with optimism. For Lebane

BEIRUT, March 11 (Reuters) - Lebanon's budget deficit jumped67 percent in 2012 to $3.93 billion, the Ministry of Financesaid on Monday, after a year of slowing growth due to the Syriancivil war...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki said armed conflicts will break out in Iraq and Lebanon if Syrian rebels topple Bashar al-Assad, according to an interview he gave to Adam Schreck and Qassim Abdul-Zahra of the Associated Press. "The most dan

TWO years ago, times were good for Hizbullah, the Lebanese Shia militia-cum-party with strong links to Iran and Syria. The group had risen from humble origins fighting Israeli soldiers in Lebanon in the 1980s to becoming a well-armed force that domin

Feb 22 (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services onFriday said it cut the Good Samaritan Hospital of Lebanon,Pennsylvania's revenue bonds ratings, series 2004 and 2002, bythree notches to...

An October car bombing that killed Lebanon's police chief hinted that the Syrian civil war had spilled over into the neighboring country, but now it appears to be official. Both state and rebel officials are reporting that the Free Syrian Army (

Iran vowed revenge against Israel after a senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was shot dead in southwestern Syria last week while traveling to Lebanon. A closer look at General Hassan Shateri (aka Hessam Khosnevis) shows

BEIRUT, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Lebanon launched apre-qualification round for oil and gas exploration in itsMediterranean waters on Friday, the first step towards theplanned award of contracts by March next year.

DUBAI, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Lebanon will launch a tender torun its two state-owned mobile phone operators, currentlymanaged by Kuwait's Zain and Egypt's OTMT,as part of a plan to revamp the telecoms sector, a seniorgovernment adviser said.

BEIRUT, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Protesters in Lebanon blocked thenorthern border crossing with Syria on Wednesday to stop fuelshipments they said were being used to resupply President Basharal-Assad's military.

* Syrian refugees denied medical care in Lebanon, MSF says

The European Union said Wednesday it could list Lebanon-based Hezbollah as a terrorist organization as one of "several options" member states will discuss.