Arabic News Daily Page for 8/20/1999
Daily Edition - Friday, August 20, 1999
- Japan finances fisheries project in Morocco
Japan will contribute 438 million yen ($ 3.3 million) to finance the second phase of a project to build a fishermen's village at Souiria Kdima, located between the atlantic cities of Safi and Essaouira. Morocco-Japan, Economics, 8/20/1999 - Translating Quran into Indonesian language
It was decided to form a committee of Indonesian graduates and the superior students of high studies who received their education in Egypt to translate the holy Quran into the Indonesian language under the patronage of the Indonesian cultural attache in Cairo. Egypt-Indonesia, Religion, 8/20/1999 - Moroccan government approves creation of Hassan II grand prize for agricultural invention and creation
The Moroccan government approved on Thursday the creation of the Hassan II grand prize for agriculture inventions and creations. Morocco, Science, 8/20/1999 - Egyptians spend 4.8 billion pounds on smoking
The Egyptian Planning Ministry released a statement yesterday saying Egyptians have spent 4.8 billion pounds on smoking local and imported cigarettes and narghile (hubble-bubble), compared to 4.5 billion pounds last year -- an increase of 6.6%. Egypt, Culture, 8/20/1999 - US reiterates its position on Libyan sanctions
US State Department spokesman James Rubin said yesterday that it is "premature" for the US to speculate about Libyan cooperation with the trial to begin next February in the Netherlands before a Scottish court of the two Libyan suspects in 1988 bombing of a Pan Am passenger jet over Lockerbie, Scotland. Libya-USA, Politics, 8/20/1999