Commentary

Investment deals and incentives offered by competing countries are often very similar. So what can t

ometimes what looks like an ideal solution to a problem - a high-tech, cost-cutting path through a m

Should government agencies with hidden agendas be allowed to carry out those agendas by giving money

Next January, the United States will swear in a new president. As is the case with all presidents, h

In this new millennium, where, as Frank Caradonna said, ''nothing is as it was, and nothing will be

''Japan will change.'' Recognition of that fact is spreading both within and outside of Japan.

The initial results are in, and for old-media and brick-and-mortar marketers, the news isn't too goo

t's hard to decide how to take the U.S. Maritime Administration's ''new look'' report on the status

Britain may be showing a growing skepticism about the virtues of signing up for the euro but others,

ontainer traffic at Hong Kong rose 8 percent last year, to 15.75 million TEUs, probably enough for t

t's bad enough that cell phones have become ubiquitous in automobiles. Now the auto companies are br

There's something particularly schizophrenic about technology news reporting lately.Technolo

Iran's crusade to improve its international image continues.In the latest move, the Iranian

As the work force keeps getting older, bosses keep getting younger. But that isn't the only reason t

The business best seller has become an established fixture of the American literary scene. Generally

What makes the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. merger with Canadian National Railway Inc. differe

Ten years after the launching of the Financial Action Task Force by the Group of 7 industrialized na

The buzz at the Balalaika restaurant in Tokyo's Kanda district these evenings, as well as at the 27

Toward the end of the 19th century, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck remarked that the most impor

The Army Corps of Engineers will convene an important public hearing next week in New Jersey. People

Move over, Dick Tracy: I'm wearing a PC on my wrist.Well, it's actually more like a personal

mong the keen observers of last week's mega-merger of Time Warner and America Online were Europe's t

n 1994, and again in 1996, trade negotiators failed to make maritime services part of a global deal

Now that the dust has settled on millennium fever, it's worth analyzing the meaning of the 20th cent

Back in the 1950s, West Germany produced what was widely hailed as an economic miracle by building a

The five Central Asian nations that became independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union eight y

Your article, ''Who's responsible for maintenance? DOT wants to know'' (Jan. 5, Page 1), struck a ne

It's almost a decade since a South Korean shipping line, Hanjin Shipping, teamed up with Taiwan's Ya

As anyone in container shipping knows, good economic times and expanding trade don't always go hand

Did you hear the giant sucking sound as U.S. companies fled below the Rio Grande? Has your life been

To bastardize George Orwell, all mistakes are dumb, but some mistakes are dumber than others.

veryone likes peace and quiet. But it's all too possible to put tranquility above more important iss

It's official. President Clinton this week began an all-out campaign to win congressional approval o

We have failed in launching a broad new round of talks to liberalize world trade. But in spite of th

The growth of international trade has forced governments to become vigilant about protecting their e

In the bustling Suq al Hamidiya, the main thoroughfare of Old Damascus' warren of street markets, th

Being the good New Yorker I am, I have no idea who my next-door neighbor is. But I do know one thing

he Japanese yen hit four-year highs against the dollar in December, setting off alarm bells at the B

t's always wise to heed the old advice to look before you leap - even if you're leaping in a most pr

In the Persian Gulf War, the military had a name for its system of conveying orders to aircraft carr