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  • Official list of the illegaly imported drugs

    Najib from Blog Baladi posted today an official list of the illegally imported drugs by the Lebanese Ministry of Health which can be downloaded using this link.

    I also noticed the website of the Order of Pharmacists in Lebanon is worth checking every now and then, since they regularly post memos issued by the Ministry of Health on fake or misadvertised drugs such as their latest memo on Energa, Starvex and many others.

  • We can now go to Georgia without a visa

    After a meeting between our prime minister Najib Mikati and Georgia’s prime pinister Nika Gilauri, it was announced yesterday that visa restrictions will be lifted on Lebanese willing to visit Georgia, but it wasn’t mentioned when will this decision take effect.

    So now we can add Georgia to the following list of countries where Lebanese can go without the need of a visa approval.

    Africa

    • Cape Verde
    • Comoros
    • Djibouti
    • Madagascar
    • Mauritius
    • Mozambique
    • Seychelles
    • Togo
    • Uganda

    Americas

    • Bolivia
    • Dominica
    • Ecuador
    • Haiti
    • Nicaragua
    • Saint Kitts and Nevis

    Asia

    • Armenia
    • Azerbaijan
    • Bangladesh
    • Cambodia
    • Georgia
    • Jordan
    • Laos
    • Macau
    • Malaysia
    • Maldives
    • Nepal
    • Oman
    • Syria
    • Timor-Leste
    • Turkey
    • Iran
    • Yemen

    Europe

    • Kosovo

    Oceania

    • Cook Islands
    • Federated States of Micronesia
    • Niue
    • Palau
    • Samoa
    • Tuvalu

  • Real list of Lebanese establishments fined for food safety

    LBCI published today a list of Lebanese supermarkets and restaurants that were fined for dealing with expired and rotten food.

    The only name I was shocked to see making such list is Kababji, I mean that’s the least you expect when you pay 7,000L.L for a tinly sandwich of grilled meat!

    Although this list dates back to 2011, I’m guessing it might relate a bit to the recently confiscated amounts of rotten meat by the authorities, but unfortunately it is limited to the Metn area only (assuming by the header of the document).

    What’s surprising though is how low the fines are, notice how some of them were reduced from 25,000,000L.L to 500,000L.L, even for big names like TSC.

  • What we might be missing about the new 7 wonders

    Everyone and their mother is now calling to vote for Jeita to make it among the new 7 wonders of the world, and even celebrities and politicians are getting involved in the voting campaigns.

    But we might be missing something here. Let me assume we did manage to secure the needed votes and made a new wonder out of Jeita Grotto, will people around the globe be aware of the new list? And most importantly, will they find it credible enough coming from an organization who has been accused of running scam campaigns (you can just Google it), and having no affiliation with the UNESCO?

    And again, assuming we won, the news will make it to the culture page of several international newspapers, but people are most probably going to perceive that article the same way they perceive any other travel and tourism article. And the most genuine list will forever remain the list of  7 wonders of the ancient world, at least to me!

    And in case you didn’t know it, we’re currently competing to make it into the list of 7 wonders of nature. Another 7 wonders were elected back in 2007, were you aware of it? (Regardless of the popularity of the chosen places)

    So what do you think? Are we overrating that competition?