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Major fires are hampering China's economic growth and negligence by local officials is frequently to

China will try to curb its urban unemployment rate in 1995 to 3 percent or 5.1 million people, numbe

The United States and South Korea remained locked in a standoff over South Korea's food inspection s

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The U.S. Customs Service will tighten controls on more than $4 billion of textile and apparel import

United Parcel Service Inc., the world's largest freight carrier, is diversifying its equipment fleet

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Trucking stocks skidded into a ditch on Wall Street in the first quarter of the year, as concerns ab

U.S. investment in Russian defense conversion is being slowed by political confusion in the Russia m

Despite the railroad industry's desire to see rail merger authority remain in an independent regulat

EU TO PROBE CHARGES OF DISK DUMPINGBRUSSELS - The European Commission said Friday it

Confirming rumors that Mexico plans to construct an alternative to the Panama Canal, Transportation

El Al Israel Airlines said it will launch its third weekly flight between Chicago and Tel Aviv on Ju

REGIONAL BLOCS Africa - The Last Great Developing Market. April 23-28, Nairobi, Keny

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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway said it will acquire 26 locomotives in the third quarter.<

The Clinton administration and the American business community "must become the closest of partners"

FLIGHT CREW UNION PLANS STRIKE AT AEROFLOTMOSCOW - The trade union for the flight cr

Italian state airline Alitalia SpA said last week it had trimmed its losses in 1994 and had a good c

British Airways' cargo transportation division, World Cargo, is to expand independently of the airli

As the dollar slipped to record lows against the yen last week, major U.S. and Japanese industrial c

Nepal's 4-month-old Communist government unveiled a liberal economic policy that courts foreign and

In what has been billed as the largest ever air shipment for a trade show, a Russian cargo plane has

Prospective merger partners Burlington Northern Railroad and Santa Fe Railway made a complex, last-m

Roadway Services Inc. announced sharply reduced first-quarter earnings, well below the expectations

China and Kuwait aim to increase cooperation in the oil industry, including production and refining,

The New York Cotton Exchange Board of Directors last week approved a change in the rules for the dai

The Sri Lankan government has halved the island's inflation rate seven months after winning power, b

Thai infrastructure development has become the focus of billions of dollars of investment, with mast

Canada's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for March rose to 9.7 percent, up 0.1 percentage poin

IMF OKS $2.8 BILLION TO SHORE UP ARGENTINAWASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fu

A unit of the World Bank signed an agreement Friday to provide up to $49.5 million for building a 36

$138,000 PAID FOR SEAT ON CSCE SETS RECORDKANSAS CITY, Mo. - A full membership seat

Friday Apr. 7, 1995 Prevailing sellers' posted prices at the close of business, representing

Utility regulation in the United States has been one of the great social inventions of all time. It

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 236.51 up 0.19 w

Salomon Brothers Inc. lowered its outlook for Chevron Corp., Mobil Corp. and Texaco Inc. on concerns

Shell China Petroleum Development BV last week began exploring for oil off China's eastern coast and

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The United States will press India to open its insurance sector and further reduce import tariffs at