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The occupation ratio in Luxor's hotels reached 73% of the total hotel rooms available in the archeological city. It is expected that this ratio may reach 95% with the new year and the millennium celebration. Go

The Egyptian companies participating in Dubai fair for data technology, Gitex 99, accounted for nearly 90% of volume of the displayed programs in the fair or those sold in the computer market held on margin of the fair. Go

Jordanian sources stated today that the Spanish government will respond to the problem of the Jordanian debts to Spain, which are $110 million, through debt conversion to facilities to purchase industrial and commercial materials from Spain or to finance projects in Jordan through Spanish companies and to exempt Jordan from part of these debts. The sources added that an agreement was signed to renew a loan worth $55 million with easy interest to finance projects implemented by Spain in Jordan during the next two years. Go

Head of the board of directors of the Kuwaiti real estate company Uniglobe, Gamal El-Esah, announced yesterday evening in Cairo the establishment of a Kuwaiti - Egyptian company for reclaiming agricultural lands in Egypt that works under the Egyptian investment law with a capital of 5 million Egyptian pounds. He said the company's actual activity will start at the beginning of the coming year, adding that the company's activity extends to purchasing the unreclaimed lands and establishing new agricultural areas. 80% of the Kuwaiti investors have investments in the Egyptian real estate market. Go

Lebanese Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss has asserted that the talks he held in Saudi Arabia with King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz and Crown Prince Abdullah were "very fruitful." Al-Hoss said this visit was a "good opportunity to discuss with the Saudi officials with various issues of concern to the two countries." Go

A source at the Syrian airline company said that the four Syrian citizens who were on board the Egyptian passenger plane which crashed on Sunday off the USA's eastern coast are Dr. Abdul Khaled Nasser and Ghassan Koujan from the Syrian city of Hama and Beishan Deif and her infant baby from al-Qamishli city in northern Syria. Go

Commercial discussions were concluded yesterday between members of the trade chamber in Alexandria (Egypt) and a business delegation from Bangladesh, which is composed of 15 large companies export leather and leather products, establish and run shrimp and fishery businesses as they discussed means in these fields as well as establishing projects in the free zone in Alexandria and helping the Egyptian businessmen in establish shrimp and fishery businesses. Go

An Egyptian economic delegation will visit Latvia this month for marketing Egyptian goods and products under the auspices of the Center for Developing Egyptian Exports (a governmental center) in coordination with the ministry of international cooperation and Latvia's consul in Egypt, Saad El-Egaizi, as meetings for officials from the Egyptian companies will be convened with the importers in this area. Go