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Taiwan's science-based industrial park is booming much as its creators hoped, spurred by opto-electr

The U.S. dollar rose against the Japanese yen Wednesday on the back of Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashim

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MICE THREATEN AUSTRALIA'S CROPSSYDNEY, Australia - Mice are devastating crops in Aus

Huge demand for cars in Thailand is fueling expansion in the motor industry, with companies from Jap

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CANADA JOINS US GROUPS IN SALMON CHALLENGEOTTAWA - Canada will join a legal action b

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RELIANCE GROUP'S CHIEF RECOVERING FROM STROKENEW YORK - Reliance Group Holdings Inc.

A group of rural U.S. telephone companies has gained a foothold in Hungary, where the post-Communist

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THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION seems to have found a new theme to guide its relations with Japan: good c

AFRICA REMAINS AN ALSO-RAN in the global race for prosperity. One of the few countries once consider

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Rational - as distinguished from vindictive - regulation by public authority turns out to be an extr

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Although 1995 is a farm bill year, neither the Clinton administration nor Congress has been willing

It's been a very hot summer. The charter market for containerships continued to heat up even

A state civil court judge has cleared the way for families of victims in a 1993 workplace shooting t

Half a century after a U.S. torpedo consigned it to the deep, a rusting Japanese submarine carrying

Another week, another tropical storm. Felix, the sixth named storm of the still-young hurric

One of the biggest challenges faced by Zim Israel Navigation Co. is labor. Matty Morgenstern

Paris-based insurance giant Axa announced Wednesday that it will buy a controlling interest in Natio

Newport News Shipbuilding plans to replace nearly 75 janitors with outside contractors next month in

ALASKA, FERRY WORKERS HEAD OFF STRIKEAlaska ferry workers Tuesday reached a tentative agreem

Broking company Alexander & Alexander announced last week the establishment of a Global Infrastructu

MINET RE NORTH AMERICA INC. (New York) - Winifred A. Baker has joined Minet Re North America as seni

ZURICH REINSURANCE TURNS AROUND, POSTS PROFIT FOR THE SECOND QUARTERNEW YORK - Zuric

Thai wholesale prices in July were up 10.3 percent from a year earlier and up 0.9 percent from June,

China has chosen an American partner to create its first commercial management company, which will t

Amoco Corp., long one of the dominant gasoline marketers in the United States, announced plans to fo

The Pakistani government Tuesday unveiled a package of incentives to attract foreign and local inves

In one of those cyclical business swings that occur with almost predictable regularity, chemical com

U.K. farmers are pressing for a quick decision from the European Union on the rate of compulsory set