Orient Express owns luxury hotels and trains around the world.

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Tom Ballantyne of the Orient Aviation Magazine in Sydney told the BBC's World Business Report he believes it is unlikely those parties who had previously expressed an interest in Ansett would renew their interest.

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Orient House, an Ottoman building, is doubly symbolic both to the Palestinians and to the wider Arab world.

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