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China announced new regulations Wednesday designed to lure Taiwanese investors to the mainland to ta

JAPANESE GOVERNMENT TO CUT RICE PRICESThe Japanese government said it will cut by 4.6 percen

US DEBT HELD BLOCK TO LDC CAPITAL FLOWTOKYO - The size of the U.S. debt, now the largest in

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Laidlaw Transportation Ltd. said for the three months ended May 31, net income increased 48 percent

British Rail, which achieved bumper profits in 1987-88, is planning a further restructuring of its l

Weavers in Iran's central city of Esfahan have completed a carpet with 1,200 shades of color after 1

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Firms that adopt a Just-in-Time purchasing system try to organize their company so components arrive

Charging interest is the way bankers around the world make their money - except, that is, in the boo

The Energy Department said it will release at a July 21 seminar in Washington the initial findings o

The Boeing Co., which last week received permission to export 767s to Poland and Romania, said it is

Sweden's Atlas Copco MCT AB has developed a new, lightweight, one-man-operated drill carrier unit, c

U.S. and other foreign cigarette manufacturers will seize market share from Canadian brands because

Sales of foreign cars in Japan over the past six months reached a record semiannual high of 58,474 u

EAST BLOC COUNTRIES SEEK DEVELOPMENT AIDPRAGUE, Czechoslovakia - Three developing member-nat

The Environmental Protection Agency recently unveiled massive new draft regulations aimed at upgradi

ASHTON-TATE CORP. (Torrance, Calif.) - Terence J. Garnett was appointed vice president and general

MARITIME LAWYER DIES; RITES HELD WEDNESDAYFuneral services were held Wednesday for James J.

Plain old electronic data interchange is no longer enough. If you're going to do internation

ITALIAN FIRM BUYING UNION SWITCH & SIGNALUnion Switch & Signal Co., is being sold to an Ital

Shell Oil Co., Houston, said Tuesday it was considering buying a 50 percent interest in an idle liqu

Bowater Industries PLC said that its U.S. subsidiary Rexham Corp. will construct a $26 million preci

ARCO CUTS POSTINGS FOR WTI BY 50 CENTSAtlantic Richfield Co. said Tuesday it reduced its pos

Louisiana's effort to meet federal clean air standards could deal a costly blow to the marine indust

Steep losses at two of its smaller trucking subsidiaries produced a net second quarter loss for Caro

Rising interest rates and higher home prices made it tougher for the average American to afford a ho

The 34th International Fancy Food & Confection Show. July 10-13. Some 700 gourmet food, confection,

In many ways Latin American countries are too caught up in their own political, inflation and debt

Euro-panic is the dismissive phrase used by one Swiss banker to describe the response of the Europea

The U.S. Department of Commerce has established a new office to study plans by the European Communit

Just how soft is the market? While no industrywide figures on commercial insurance premium rates exi

Have no fear: EDI is here. Computer experts say security risks are growing at least as fast

The bad news is that the fire at the Texaco Chemical Co. ethylene and propylene complex at Port Arth

Taiwan and West Germany, two of the top U.S. trading partners, have been selling more goods overseas

The opening salvos have been fired in a battle between insurers and agents over the softening insura

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK (New York) - James Oltman was named first vice president and chief

The U.S. Customs Service doesn't plan to penalize Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. following the discovery

ABU DHABI'S POSTINGS WERE LOWER FOR JUNEMANAMA, Bahrain - The largest oil producer in the Un

Atlantic Petroleum Corp., of King of Prussia, Pa., a large independent refiner and marketer in the N