The Syndicate of Restaurant Owners is mobilizing to provide Lebanon’s eateries with better information and training in order to improve food safety. The initiative will help eateries recognize the authorities who deal with food safety, determine the difference between quality inspection and quality assurance, and learn how various products must be handled.
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Lebanon’s consumer prices fell drastically in June, erasing over half of the inflation recorded since the beginning of the year, driven by telecoms price cuts instituted over the last two months. Read more here.
The Lebanese design and technology company Green Studios is carving out a garden empire one building at a time thanks to a patented technology that allows vegetation to grow on walls and on rooftops under regional climate conditions. Read more here.
In cities with good public transportation, some people live their entire lives “car free.” In Beirut, where a plethora of red-plated service taxis vie for space on congested streets with enormous SUVs, often transporting a lone businessman or woman to work, freedom from cars is the stuff of daydreams. Cities around the globe designate certain areas pedestrian only each year on Sept. 22, World Car Free Day, which aims to promote mass transit, cycling or walking as alternatives to driving. Conceived by MP NadimGemayel, the independent organization is run by a committee of 20 local residents. Its long-term aims are to transform Ashrafieh over the course of eight years, introducing green initiatives, pedestrianization, bike lanes and wheelchair accessibility.
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About 200,000 people in the South Lebanon districts of Bint Jbeil and Marjeyoun have been deprived of running water for about two months, and are now forced to buy it from other sources at high prices amid prolonged water outages.
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Efforts to reach an agreement to end a sit-in near a waste dump south of Beirut hit a dead end Sunday, as garbage piled up on the streets of the capital and across Mount Lebanon for a third day. Locals and environmental activists protesting at the overflowing Naameh waste dump are calling for the permanent closure of the landfill, arguing that it has become a health hazard for residents.
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