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SAFECO'S YEAR-END PROFITTOOK HIT FROM ACQUISITIONSEATTLE - Safeco Corp.'s year-end net incom

AON GROUP INC.Joseph E. Morahan was named executive vice president. He will also continue as

California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, belying critics' claims that his actions are un

China's plan to turn the Yangtze River into an international shipping corridor is advancing, despite

Frankfurt's airport isn't about to become a center of competition despite an order by the European U

Israel's international airport will shut down every afternoon to prevent collisions between planes a

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Vitaly Morozov is the big man on Butcher Street, in the heart of the Russian capital.By

Importers who negotiate prices subject to discounts or rebates should be aware that the statutes and

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While lauding the promises of newly re-elected Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, Africa watchers are

Provisions of Indonesia's economic reform package of interest to people doing business with that cou

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Egypt's agricultural sector remains the single most significant sector in Egypt today. The market si

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Corestates Bank, Philadelphia, said it has established an electronic data interchange link with Roya

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Russian oil giant Lukoil plans to push up its oil exports because of the recent fall in the oil pric

The price of oil has tumbled to its lowest level in nearly four years, and the OPEC ministers who pu

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By most accounts, the historic visit by Pope John Paul II that ended Sunday will change Cuba forever

Korean Air Cargo announced it is starting dedicated freighter service from Seoul to Ho Chi Minh City

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WALLACE TAPPEDFOR UPS POSTATLANTA - United Parcel Service appointed Ronald Wallace, former h

Cargo companies are applauding Argentina's privatization of its airfields - the largest such aviatio

CNF Transportation Inc. Tuesday released an impressive fourth-quarter financial statement that showe

TAIWAN STILL REJECTINGOVERTURES FROM CHINATAIPEI - Taiwan on Tuesday poured cold water on ri

For the 84-year-old patriarch of a well-known Thai-Chinese business family, Udane Tejaphaibul, this

Economic reforms in India will continue regardless of the outcome of elections there next month, Ind