Growers in Al Jabal Al Akhdhar, in the governorate of A'Dakhiliyah, have begun harvesting their pomegranates. Pomegranates are the main economic crop in Al Jabal Al Akhdhar. There are ... ( read original story ...)
LyondellBasell PP and HDPE technologies selected for DRPIC project in Oman
(Page 1) LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) announced that Duqm Refinery and Petrochemical Industries Company LLC (DRPIC) has selected LyondellBasell’s wor ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore’s Coveted Expat Jobs Threatened by Local Hire Push
Singapore has long been the city of choice for Western expats wanting an easy entrée into Asia. Clean, efficient, with low tax rates, it’s often seen as rivaling Hong Kong, especially with that city ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore: 77 new Covid-19 cases but only two in community; total at 56,572
Singapore has preliminarily confirmed 77 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of infections in the republic to 56,572. ( read original story ...)
TriNetX taps Singapore medical school to add data from an extra one million patients
Global research network provider TriNetX has teamed up with Singapore’s Duke-NUS medical school to add de-identified data from more than a million patients. ( read original story ...)
Singapore: Poor prospects for the industrial sector – UOB
Barnabas Gan, Economist at UOB Group, reviewed the recent results from the industrial sector in Singapore. Key Quotes “Singapore’s industrial production disappointed market ex ... ( read original story ...)
UN council runs the clock on Lebanon peacekeeping renewal
Tough negotiations on the scope and scale of a 42-year-old UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon are set to run all the way up to a Friday Security Council (UNSC) session to renew its mandate. The UN ... ( read original story ...)
Lebanon then and now: Lament for an orphaned land
Now that the ghosts of war have returned – not that they ever really left – I wonder what happened to those children I worked with almost three decades ago. ( read original story ...)
France warns Lebanon risks collapse after explosion, crisis
France’s foreign minister says Lebanon is in such a deep political and economic crisis that the country risks collapsing altogether ... ( read original story ...)
Canada ready to join Lebanon blast probe if credible and transparent
Canada has offered to join Lebanon's investigation into this month's seismic Beirut port blast but under conditions that ensure a credible and transparent probe that "gets to the bottom of things", ... ( read original story ...)