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Conversion Industries Inc. said it is seeking a joint venture partner to assist in completing develo

The French state utility, Gaz de France, or GdF, is fighting for a larger portion of the domestic en

Consolidated Natural Gas Co. said that it increased its reserves of natural gas for the fourth year

A proposed new sales tax is meeting mounting criticism from Japan's opposition parties and ruling pa

A group of U.S. business executives said the Philippines is politically stable, and two of them anno

Mexico is winning new foreign customers and credits for its indebted, overbuilt state steel business

Guy F. Tozzoli received eight different job offers from the private sector after he announced his pl

S. Korea Plans Fund To Help Third WorldSEOUL, South Korea - South Korea plans to create a fu

Eating the cows that produce the European Community's surplus butter mountain is a solution some mem

Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing (3M) announced the acquisition of Unitek Corp. of Monrovia, Calif.,

GENERAL NEWS James R. Steckel was named vice president, production of The Journal of Commerc

Mexico set a March 20 deadline for creditors to sign its long-delayed US$7.7 billion commercial loan

The developing countries' debt problems, if left uncorrected much longer, threaten lasting damage to

James R. Steckel, 50, was named vice president, production of The Journal of Commerce, replacing How

Four struggling Latin American nations undertake new economic measures and developments: BRA

Top British industrialists may send a mission to Washington to lobby against protectionist pressures

Open bidding is not possible for foreign companies hoping to win contracts in construction of the $6

India produces four times as much wheat and almost twice as much rice as it did in the 1960s. But In

Ocean carriers are direct employers of International Longshoremen's Association labor, even when the

The father of the most distinctive landmarks on the lower Manhattan skyline retired from the Port Au

Tower Commission WASHINGTON - President Reagan "did not seem to be aware" of the full conseq

Crowley Maritime Corp. agreed in principle with United States Lines Inc. to acquire USL's South Amer

The United States and Canada could arrive at the broad outlines of an historic free trade agreement

For now, Brazil's top financial officials are wrapping a political mantle around Brazil's internatio

Since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster early last year, a question reverberating in the U.S. coal expo

Representatives of the textile, footwear, steel, chemical and metalworking industries and labor unio

Westmoreland Coal Co. earnings should improve in the fourth quarter this year, as a result of a stre

A unit of Fluor Corp. was awarded a contract by Union Carbide Corp. The value of the contract was no

The board of directors of Consumers Power Co. announced that it will recommend forming a holding co

Venezuela, following in the footsteps of its South American neighbor Colombia, is getting set to cro

NY Utility Converts Units to Burn CoalPOUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. - Central Hudson Gas & Electric Co.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has increased its reserve base by being the apparent high bidder on 39 prod

Memtek Corp., Billerica, Mass., and E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, agreed to jointly dev

Dow to Hike Phenol PricesMIDLAND, Mich. - Dow Chemical U.S.A. is increasing its selling pric

Canadian Shipments Increase in ValueShipments by Canadian plastics processors (custom, propr

International Minerals & Chemical Corp. signed a contract for the acquisition of Pitman-Moore, a maj

Squibb Corp. Triples EarningsPRINCETON, N.J. - Squibb Corp. reported fourth quarter net inco

Imperial Chemical Industries PLC reported fourth quarter net income of $169 million, or $1.04 an Ame

Aeroport de Paris, or ADP, the French public authority managing the 14airports in the greate

At least 2,000 Western Airlines employees will be required to move from the carrier's Los Angeles he