Industrial City near Nabatiyeh to be developed by Khalil Zantout. Lands for purchase and leasing at affordable prices

Dmoul Industrial City will be finalized in Nabatieh in mid 2016. Khalil Zantout, major shareholder and Chairman of Ahmad El-Sawi Zantout Establishments is managing the project.

Dmoul Industrial City measures one million square meters and is located 75 kilometers from Beirut. Zantout said that the land plot will be divided into two parts. The first will be dedicated for the second category of industries, such as construction material factories including paints, tiles, and metal, as well a...

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Sorting facility for Shouf El Aala.

The Federation of Shouf El Aala Union of Municipalities will open a waste sorting and composting facility in Baadaran later this month. The facility will cover 12 villages, including Mokhtara and Aamtour.

According to Salah Shaz-bak, Baadaran Mayor, the project comprises two phases: The first will open after two weeks and will include a sorting facility, and the second will include a composting facility, which will be ready once the equipment has been imported from Italy.

The tota...

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MEA subsidiary wins airport restaurants tender.

The Lebanese Beirut Airport Catering Company (LBACC), a company owned mostly by Middle East Airlines (MEA), has won a tender for the management of restaurants and cafeterias at the Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport.

LBACC was the company that ran these facilities for the past 15 years. The previous contract began in 1996 and was automatically renewed every year since 2011. The company is chaired by Mohamad El-Hout.

The value of the contract is $2.25 million yearly with a du...

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Food Safety Law enacted in Parliament. Commission will be founded to control the sector

Parliament enacted, in its plenary session last month, the Food Safety Law, which applied regulations for companies, farmers, and importers.

Mounir Bissat, Secretary General of the Syndicate of Food Industries, said: "It is a big achievement for industrialists. If the law had existed before, there would not have been a food safety crisis last year."

The law established the Food Safety Lebanese Commission (FSLC), which will be an independent entity working under the Cabinet's author...

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Taxpayers may now pay taxes in nearest treasury office.

Taxpayers may, from now on, pay their taxes in the public treasury office that is closest to their location, said the Ministry of Finance in a statement.

The decision, which aims to ease tax payments, applies to taxes that could, under law, be paid in treasury offices. The move comes in the application of a resolution issued in 2009 that considers the entire country to be a single tax collection area, according to the ministry.

Citizens and legal entities may pay their taxes in a...

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