Hints and tips:
...I mean, I don’t want to be the man’s spokesman, but I guess he would say, well, it’s a slur that I’m a criminal....
...Credit Suisse’s Asia-Pacific M&A head Christopher Chua is leaving the Swiss bank to help lead HSBC’s Asia M&A business, per Bloomberg....
...Smart reads Money trail “Don’t eff this up rafiq,” private equity tycoon Arif Naqvi wrote in an email....
...James M Dorsey, a senior fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, told Nikkei Asia that several factors are at play, including Pakistan’s Shia population, doubts about the...
...“I’m hopeful that the spirit has changed. It is because of the political situation; everybody is now talking to each other. There’s not going to be any more fighting.”...
...I’m not convinced he did it alone.”...
...“I’m thinking about leaving the country.”...
...I’m not a Salafi, and those who support me are not Salafis, I’m a Sunni Muslim preacher and I think Islam is about wisdom,” says the sheikh....
...I’m told that the UN-backed special tribunal for Lebanon will, within days, hand down indictments over the 2005 killing of former premier Rafiq Hariri. Pan-Arab papers have been speculating about this....
...“This is a strong blow to US credibility, I’m sure officials in the region will think twice before they meet with any US officials and disclose anything,” Mr Kahwaji said....
...“I’m guessing that we are now considered as a safe haven for a lot of the regional depositors,” she says. But the influx of deposits also poses problems for the banks....
...I’m being well watched....
...The Israelis did not succeed in defeating Lebanon – I’m being fairly objective. They did not have a victory, we did not have a victory....
...“If you compare me to a salaried president, yes, I’m certainly taking more risks,” Mr Saadé says. “If you compare me to another owner like us, no, we are not.”...
...As to the ability of these groups to actually set up any real base, I’m not sure about that, it’s a question for the security services....
...I’m not Hizbollah but I can’t stand against them – the whole state cannot stand against them now.” The Shia in the mountains are a minority, he went on, but Hizbollah is determined to protect them....
...“Twice there were problems with them and they would open grenades and say: ‘I’m in a hurry to meet the creator’.”...
...That followed a fraught time for the regime, which faces a United Nations investigation into the alleged involvement of top Syrian officials in the killing last year of Rafiq Hariri, the former Lebanese...
...Syria last year, in the wake of the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri, withdrew its troops from Lebanon after a nearly 30-year presence....
...A senior Syrian official has for the first time implied that his country was involved in the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Syria?...
..."They [the security advisers] say I'm under threat but I've never felt it," he shrugs....
...I'm not blindly pro-Syrian.” Lebanese opposition MPs are demanding that Syria open an embassy in Beirut a move recently urged by the UN....
...I'm flattered,” he told the Financial Times in November....
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