A Little Too Generous
Imagine receiving a US$500 tip from a Lebanese businessman for a work well-done. Now imagine instead of giving you five 100-dollar bills, he gives you a single 500-dollar bill:
When a Malaysian hotel cleaner was tipped $500 by a high-rolling, self-proclaimed Lebanese “billionaire”, it seemed to good to be true.
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Businessman Elie Youseef Najem’s generosity turned out [...]
Overpaid Lebanese
Now is that even possible?
[Bahraini] MPs yesterday decided to question a top government official over what they claimed was her lavish spending on Lebanese employees. MP Shaikh Mohammed Khalid Mohammed highlighted the issue at yesterday’s session, saying it was understandable why the [Ministry of Culture and Information] was asking for an additional BD2 million [US$5.3 [...]
Exporting Lebanese
I consider Lebanese to Lebanon’s number one export. No matter where you are in the world, you are bound to run into someone who shares your nationality. Of course, we emigrants can enrich the new society we join…
SECRETARY CLINTON: …And it is important that I stress this special bond that exists between the United States [...]
Gold Hunt
Grab your metal detectors, there’s gold in Lebanon:
The mortgage broker who posted an online confession last month before fleeing the country on a private jet has been returned to Sacramento to face a 44-count federal indictment.
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He left the U.S. the previous week on a chartered jet to Lebanon where authorities believe he may have stashed [...]
Making Big Bucks and Paying It Up
ArabianBusiness.com has issued partial results to its Salary Survey taken in January 2009 and apparently a Lebanese has the title of the most paid:
…no one nationality dominated the top earners list with 10 different countries represented, with Lebanon, Bahrain and Australia filling the top three rankings.
And how much does our fellow Lebanese make?
Well, he or [...]
