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New arrivals at Southeast Asian refugee camps find their tales of escape are often colored by a comm

Northwest Marine Iron Works is the apparent low bidder for the overhaul of a Navy amphibious landing

Medicare Part B Rates To Jump Record 38.5 percentThe federal government says Medicare patien

Life insurance companies must operate under worst-case scenarios to prevent cases of acquired immune

Japan's major banks, riding high on profits from their worldwide investment boom, are boosting reser

More and more corporations around the world are helping small, emerging companies launch new busines

Gov. Robert P. Casey has unveiled legislation to enable Pennsylvania to create a state Superfund pro

Negotiations are under way with the government on a second air cargo terminal designed to double Hon

Rubble-strewn streets and bullet-riddled corpses are not the stuff of glossy business brochures. As

The U.S. dollar surged to its highest level in six weeks Tuesday, rising above 146 Japanese yen on m

President Reagan will not accept new taxes to cut the budget deficit, but the administration is will

The Journal of Commerce will reopen an editorial office in Atlanta Oct. 5. Craig Dunlap, who

Soviet consumers, long accustomed to shortages, are gritting their teeth over a lack of toothpaste t

Moody's Raises Rating On Mobil Corp. DebtNEW YORK, N.Y. - Moody's Investors Service raised f

Eager purchasers of Arco Chemical Co.'s initial public offering of 17 million shares of common stock

Thomas J. Donohue, president of the American Trucking Associations, won a crucial vote from skeptica

As Takashi Watanabe disembarked from a Tokyo flight, he stood out from the sea of Japanese executive

Chile Tightens Rules On Debt ConversionsSANTIAGO - The Chilean central bank has modified the

THE NEXT ACT of the long-playing drama over the 50-mile longshore container rule opens Thursday in N

Seven years ago, China made Sylvan Wittwer an offer: tell us how the United States goes about feedin

Metro-Dade police denied using excessive force on distraught Eastern Airlines passengers accused of

American to Report On-Time StatisticsDALLAS/FORT WORTH AIRPORT - American Airlines Inc. said

Shippers that move cargo across the North Atlantic are paying unnecessarily high freight charges bec

John G. Graham was named vice president and chief financial officer of General Public Utilities Corp

The heads of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund proposed ambitious new policy goals

Franchise Expositions Set for Eight US CitiesThe International Franchise Association will ho

Flush with cash from a growing trade surplus, Mexico is slowly opening its doors to imports.

About 100 Chinese tourism and poultry officials got their first taste Tuesday of U.S. fast food as B

EPA Announces Tinkham CleanupThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has entered into a con

The opportunity exists for Pennsylvania utilities to generate more electricity from coal-fired plant

The number of U.S.-owned vessels operated for tax and other reasons under foreign flags has diminish

Creating a logistics subsidiary will result in financial benefits, but transportation managers shoul

Sponsors of a bill to bring product liability tort reform to the U.S. aviation industry tried Tuesda

Union Pacific Railroad has acquired two partners in a project to develop electronic train control sy

Conrail to Commence Worker Stock IssueDistribution of Conrail common stock to participants i

The resignation of Brazil's minister of trade and industry clouds even further the future of several

A 5.5 percentage point rise in Japan's industrial production in August from a year earlier reflected

The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission's New York regional officequit Tuesday fo

THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Daily Industrial Materials Price Index of Sensitive Spot Commodity Prices on

Quotations are offered rates of New York city banks relating to currency transfers of $1 million or