Businesses damaged
in blast seek recovery
amid lack of compensation

Xinhua

Rita Aziz, manager of a Japanese restaurant in the district of Gemmayze, carefully decorated the tables with delicate table cloths, while supervising workers fixing the restaurant doors, which were damaged by Beirut port's blasts on Aug. 4, 2020.

"The whole entrance to the restaurant, our offices, tables and fridges were fully destroyed by the blasts," Aziz told Xinhua, adding the shop owner had received merely 13 million Lebanese pounds (around 1,000 U.S. dollars at the black market rate) in compensation from the government, which is a small amount compared to the high rehabilitation cost. FULL STORY