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Under international pressure, Thailand is moving slowly to reform its child-labor practices.

Importers, beware: You're going to be shelling out more money this year for cocoa.A combinat

Indonesia's Parliament on Wednesday approved a law allowing state-ownedand private companies to deve

JUDGE REJECTS AIRPORTTERMINAL COST-SHARE PLANMIAMI - An administrative law judge rejected a

The coming decade will bring economic prosperity in the United States and rapid growth in internatio

The Clinton administration is so concerned about the unauthorized sale of an IBM supercomputer to Ru

The United States expects to seal an aviation free-trade agreement with Taiwan Thursday, the latest

FROM THE UNITED STATES / CANADAOMAN, SAUDI ARABIA. March 7-14. Arab Chamber of Commerce, wit

TEAMSTERS UNION SEIZESALLEGED MOB-TAINTED LOCALROCHESTER, N.Y. - The Teamsters seized contro

Johore, the second-busiest port in Malaysia, is rushing to complete its expansion program. At the sa

Officials are lobbying to amend the Casino Control Act casino law, saying the measure has failed to

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MEXICO REPORTS 14THCONSECUTIVE SURPLUSMEXICO CITY - Mexico registered its fourteenth consecu

The newly formed Asian Group of 6 will rival the Group of 7 industrialized nations and begin to brin

In a remarkable series of contacts over the past week, Middle East and Central Asian nations seem to

In a recent column I described some powerful e-mail services - Bigfoot (http://www.bigfoot.com) and

(1)SPOT PRICE INFLATION RATE, SMOOTHED, ANNUALIZED, March 1, 1996 - Feb. 25, 1997 (a graph)*

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Insurers and agents in New York were pleased by last week's nomination of Banking Superintendent Nei

Delta Air Lines has launched cargo service on Delta Express, its low-fare carrier that connects 10 N

Since the beginning of its currency convertibility plan in June 1991, Argentina has experienced a st

A Tokyo-based human-resources training company, Academia International, will set up a new airline in

Russia's second Siberian railway, the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM), is trying to dig itself out of deb

NORTEL PICKS FRITZAS CUSTOMS BROKERSAN FRANCISCO - Northern Telecom chose global logistics p

Cargo traffic at the world's airports increased a healthy 9.7 percent in November to reach 4.4 milli

California's Public Utilities Commission rejected a proposed Pacific Bell rate increase of $200 mill

El Salvador hopes to begin privatizing its principal seaport and airport by the end of this year, Al

Feb. 25, 1997Included are list prices of suppliers. Quotations do not necessarily represent

An investment panel has recommended that the sale of government equity in state-owned companies shou

Wendell Sullivan was outraged when he learned that Thomson Consumer Electronics was shutting down it

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In a bid to curry regional support for liberalization of the services sector, Thailand is planning t

The House today is expected to reinstate a 10 percent tax on airline tickets and a cargo waybill tax

The Tan Hi principle arose from an early 1946 shipment, later looted, that sailed to thePhilippines

A hard-luck barge that was headed to a Seattle repair yard after capsizing in Cook Inlet last month

WISCONSIN RAIL SETSROADBED IMPROVEMENTSMILWAUKEE - Wisconsin's largest freight railroad will