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Osaka automaker Daihatsu Motor Co. said it has started production of a new popular minicar in Malays

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CENTRE RE COMPLETES ANGLO AMERICAN DEALHAMILTON, Bermuda - Centre Reinsurance (Bermu

An American company will be first across the threshold as Pakistan reopens its door to foreign life

The following is the list of bunker prices obtained during the course of week ending July 29, 1994.

Seattle's bizarre "bridge to nowhere" - a source of jokes, wild speculation and mystery book covers

A management shake-up begun last summer has transformed the top management of Lykes Bros. Steamship

China and major Western trading powers failed Friday to resolve their differences over Beijing's bid

Asahi Bank said Friday it had become the first Japanese bank to offer special export financing for t

The island of Penang off Malaysia's northwest coast looks set for a boost by regaining the free-trad

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

AIR CARGO GROUP BACKS DATA STANDARDIZATIONThe International Air Cargo Association endorsed a

GE Transportation Systems is teaming up with ABB and Raytheon to work on a proposal for building hig

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Vietnam, which has only a tiny natural-gas industry now, foresees pipeline exports of large quantiti

HISCOX HOLDS COVERAGE FOR STOLEN PAINTINGSLONDON - Two valuable paintings by English

Several insurance companies suing the New Jersey Insurance Department over payments to the state's d

Container volume at the Port of Long Beach soared 25.7 percent in the fiscal year ending June 30, br

Some shippers are moderately optimistic that the Federal MaritimeCommission's antitrust inve

The U.S. military, stalled in its efforts to deliver maximum relief to more than a million starving

Ernest Connor, director of the New Hampshire State Port Authority, was named general manager and por

Russia's largest investment company admitted its virtual collapse Friday, telling investors it has n

Trade leads supplied by: US Department of CommerceU.S. and Foreign Commercial Service

A proposal by American Airlines to form an international consortium topurchase and manage ai

It was a record-setting flight in more ways than one recently when a 3,200- horsepower diesel locomo

Russia has lowered taxes on imported alcohol and cigarettes and changed the way the taxes are assess

FILM INDUSTRY CREATES POLAND ANTI-PIRACY UNITNEW YORK - Taking advantage of the coun

China appears poised to tighten oil-import restrictions again as its domestic market remains in trou

For the second day in a row, Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas, was unable Friday to hold a scheduled vote b

Windsor officials have sued a Connecticut insurance company for failing to defend the town against l

The Knight-Ridder Commodity Research Bureau's future price index closed Thursday at 232.20 off 0.38

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

Friday, July 29, 1994 (Percentages Per Year)INTERNATIONAL INTEREST RATESCanada

The bad karma surrounding American President Lines' vessel President Washington continues to build u

By the end of the year, there could be as many as four or five international insurance companies lic

(1) DAILY INDEX Annual Smoothed percent +16.537/25 104.97/26 104.97/27

South Korea posted its sixth consecutive monthly current account shortfall on Friday, but economists

Wisconsin Central Transportation Corp. said its newly formed WC Canada Holdings Inc. subsidiary will

Increased revenue from rail operations was a major factor in the C$98 million (US$72.5 million) prof

Japan's Labor Ministry said Friday it has decided to put eight domestic airlines on a list of recess