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Hong Kong's primary, extremely profitable telecommunications provider is talking to someone in China

Leftist rebels have dynamited Colombia's main oil pipeline for the 31st time this year, a spokeswoma

Northwest Natural Gas and Portland General Electric have reached agreement on PGE surplus gas sales,

Insurers will be eyeing New Jersey's gubernatorial race now that Jim McGreevey is the Democrat's cha

Texas lawmakers closed their biennial legislative session by ushering in a number of important tort

Shippers and shipowners have a litany of complaints about ports around the world.Shippers wa

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It's official.The merger of Conrail Inc. into a company jointly controlled by buyers Norfolk

Mead Corp. exported almost half the items in its 900-product line to Mexico last year. So far this y

June 4, 1997BALTIC INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT FUTURES MARKET Prev.Close High

June 4, 1997U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f.o

DANISH SHIPOWNERS FINDEU APPROACH PALATABLELONDON - European Union transport commissioner Ne

China's grand experiment after July 1 - maintaining separate legal, judicial and executive systems f

The U.S. dollar rose Wednesday, as market participants surveyed the wreckage of the German gold reva

ORE-IDA FOODS SHUTSDOWN TRUCKING FLEETFORT ATKINSON, Wis. - Ore-Ida Foods is shutting down i

FEDERAL EXPRESS UNVEILSSERVICE ENHANCEMENTSMEMPHIS - Federal Express Corp. announced three s

Well-wishers waved and marveled at the new ship, admiring the bunting and razor-sharp paint job.

MORE NOMURA OFFICIALSCHARGED IN SCANDALTOKYO - Prosecutors filed charges Wednesday accusing

Thomas Donohue, the outspoken president and chief executive of the American Trucking Associations, i

Intercontainer, the pan-European rail container group, carried a record number of boxes in 1996 desp

The Clinton administration has reportedly offered to send U.S. peacekeeping forces to the Caucasus r

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Two executives of a New Jersey-based oil company were arrested on an indictment charging that they s

GAS PROJECT BOARDDISBANDED IN NIGERIALONDON - The board of directors of the Nigerian Liquefi

U.S. gasoline inventories rose by 2.9 million barrels in the week ended May 30, compared with the pr

This week, I found myself in the unusual position of actually having to buy some insurance. Since I'

The receivers of bankrupt Dutch plane maker Fokker said they would begin liquidation of the company

The U.S. Commerce Department Wednesday accused Russia, Ukraine, China and South Africa of dumping st

Robert Crandall, chief executive of American Airlines, said U.S. officials are right to want more la

Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., and four Democratic lawmakers have asked the State Department to discu

The Commerce Department is stepping up efforts to ensure that all export shipments are properly lice

Texas Republican Gov. George W. Bush must appoint by September a new nine-member governing board to

Vermont Sen. James Jeffords and Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe hope to funnel millions of federal dollars

Ford Motor Co. plans to make 250,000 vehicles that can fill up on either gasoline or ethanol, a move

The top brass of the U.S. computer industry Wednesday ruled out a potential compromise with the Clin

Japan's biggest telephone company wants to slash 32,500 jobs from its work force of 182,500 by the y

'And then we see all the best stuff turning up on cable, via satellite, at sidewalk stalls hawking v