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Further changes are promised to China's patent laws to broaden their scope and anticipate new develo

Despite a disastrous sugar harvest this year, Cuba's all-important agricultural sector is beginning

Chile, considered by many to be South America's most dynamic economy, has added insurance firms to t

Although Mexico boasts roughly 2,200 manufacturing and assembly operations known as maquiladoras, fe

Japan announced this week it will release complete patent records in English on CD-ROM beginning in

Japan's 1995 WTO Consistency of Trade Policies report - at an inch thick and 408 pages - is a pictur

A shortage of office space in the Chinese capital is sending rents through the roof, officials said

Germany's Deutsche Bank announced Wednesday it will set up an independent retail bank called Bank 24

LLOYD'S CLM FUND POSTS A PROFITLONDON - CLM Insurance Fund, the Lloyd's of London co

Any changes made by Congress to federal banking law this year must keep "the stability, competition

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A variety of economic, political and social factors are combining to cause members of the European U

A coalition of insurance companies, state regulators and consumer groups this week released a compre

Despite the almost complete halt of activity in Italy's public sector because of the "Clean Hands" c

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACTUARIES (Washington, D.C.) Robert E. Heitzman, Jr. has been made senior pensi

Heidi Hutter, director of a crucial project at Lloyd's of London, was named ''Insurance Woman of the

Italy's unemployment rate rose to 12.2 percent in January from 11.9 percent in the previous survey i

JUDGE REDUCES DAMAGES AWARDED LLOYD'S NAMESLONDON - A new development in the legal b

The New York Mercantile Exchange is still evaluating southern Nevada as a possible delivery point fo

German plant and machinery orders rose a real 17 percent in February from the year-earlier month, li

DOMINION, ENRON FORM AUSTRALIAN GAS VENTUREDominion Resources Inc. and Enron Corp. have form

Nigerian women seeking compensation for a recent oil spill have forced the Shell Oil Co. to halt ope

Mar. 29, 1995 U.S. spot oil product price indications, sellers range, in cents per gallon, f

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Crowley Marine Services Inc. will spend about $12 million to add two tractor tugs for its dedicated

John Latimer and Sharon Eastman had planned to marry and spend a year sailing around the world. They

P&O Containers Ltd., the U.K. liner shipping company, achieved a 50 percent increase in operating pr

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The European Commission's threat to fine shipping lines for setting inland freight rates was describ

DRAFT IS INCREASED AT SEAWAY SECTIONNEW YORK - The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development

The Noble Collection: A Work in Progress. Through spring. Staten Island, N.Y. New exhibition at the

One of the leading tanker-industry advocates of sharing ship-inspection information said he has doub

Finance Ministry officials in Mexico have published long-awaited rules that require insurance compan

An influential maritime industry body representing Canadian and U.S. users of the St. Lawrence Seawa

Ships are again moving in and out of the ports of Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., following sever

General cargo volume is on the rise at Virginia Port Authority terminals in 1995 but breakbulk traff

Miami's international banking center has emerged from the Mexican peso- devaluation crisis relativel

Coming off a quarter in which his company posted a $44.1 million turnaround in its international ope

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