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Social Security payroll deductions go up this week, as do benefit checks, in a little New Year's gi

A proposal to phase-in health insurance for all Massachusetts residents by 1992 is dead for now.

New Jersey motorists may be hit by steep increases in car insurance prices next year to cover a repo

Cigna Re Expands Workers Comp ProgramHARTFORD, Conn. - Cigna Re Corp., based here, has expan

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And if it breaks, insurance will cover it." A California c

The dollar's plunge against the Japanese yen and West German mark has left a widespread impression t

There are three potential losers, but a clutch of guaranteed big winners, in East and Southeast Asia

Trust but verify, President Reagan told the Soviets. Hope for the best, but sell ahead in th

Earnings from Malaysian textile exports next year are forecast to hit M$2.3 billion (US$920 million)

The following business missions are scheduled to arrive in the United States. The Journal of Commerc

October 1987 - Quantities in 1,000s Export Totals Import TotalsF.A.S.

Japanese Group Seeks Better US Ties on ChipsThe Electronic Industries Association of Japan p

The Cabinet on Monday approved a proposed fiscal 1988 budget intended to stimulate economic activity

USG Corp. said it has taken the final steps to spin off as a stand-alone business its A.P. Green Ref

China and Soviet Union Sign Trade ProtocolChina and the Soviet Union signed a trade protocol

EC Approves PVC VentureBRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Community approved a joint venture f

PROCEDURE FOR PAYMENT OF DUTIABLE INFORMALS FOR MERCHANDISE AT THE AIRMAIL FACILITY - SEATTLE DISTRI

Japan is hoping to ease mounting friction with China in the aftermath of the ''Toshiba affair" by sp

On the night of Oct. 23, Bob Hedden, chief of the Falls Township, Pa., Volunteer Fire Company No. 1,

When tea merchants Davison, Newman & Co. first tried exporting to the United States, the company's e

Medco, France's Sanofi Form PartnershipMedco Research Inc. recently signed an agreement with

West Germany's Big Three chemical manufacturers are able to look back at 1987 favorably and look for

A key legislator in Thailand is digging his heels in over a long-stalled and hotly controversial new

South Korea will decide this week whether to give in to a U.S. ultimatum to open its markets wider t

A onetime leading businessman and political figure in Malaysia and Singapore was charged Monday with

After six years of losing money, America's farmers plowed profitable ground in 1987. Their p

Japanese farmers have discovered public relations - American style. Farmers in Japan, althou

AVIATION Those responsible for keeping weapons off commercial airliners receive low wages an

Robert P. White joins Con-Way Eastern Express as vice president, sales, after 15 years with another

In a rare collaboration, most of the region's major universities have joined in an effort to make Ne

China needs to boost pork output by raising the purchase price for pigs and by allocating 1.55 milli

IMF Expands Fund To Aid Poor CountriesThe International Monetary Fund announced Monday a rou

Karl-Heinz Sager grinned as he displayed Senator Line's 1987 Christmas card. When Senator an

While any decline in fuel costs will be welcome, transportation companies don't expect to see 1988 a

The Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp. Monday announced it will sell the Southern Pacific Transportatio

Movements of high value general cargo continued to set records in 1987 for the port complex at the m

The presidential election campaign of 1988 will not be kind to the dollar. To bolster the ch

'Twas just before takeoff and all through the plane, the passengers waited for the safety refrain.

Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corp. said it will begin operations on schedule on Jan. 1 after Volvo White Tru

Southern Yunnan province has the heady aura of misty beauty and latent power that has been a percept