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As early as this week, it is anticipated that the Senate will vote on passage of trade enhancement f

Last month's Congressional hearings on Russian money laundering climaxed a new phase of breast-beati

It's some months ago now since news first broke in these columns that China Shipping Group was makin

Japan is poised to lead foreign investment in the next important phase of China's development, cente

While the genetically modified crops issue has held the attention of the British public like a well-

(Following is an excerpt taken from an editorial published last week and distributed by Scripps Howa

Your Oct. 12 article ''Senate divided on cruise reform'' (Page 15) stated that the McCain bill would

Vietnam wants to give typhoons a clearly Asian identity, Reuters reports.The nation has sugg

There was plenty of dodging and weaving at a congressional hearing last week on air-travel delays. I

Airlines have long tried to reconcile two sometimes contradictory objectives: convincing passengers

Recent scandals involving the International Monetary Fund have prompted Congress to seek ways to ref

What a sanitized rail-riding experience one gets shuttling back and forth between Washington and New

Last April, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji offered an impressive slate of concessions to convince the Un

Despite America's reputation as a country of whiners, most of us say we rarely complain.But

U.S. Maritime Administrator Clyde J. Hart Jr. pulled no punches this week in a speech in Tokyo on th

Politicians are famously adept at employing what one might term ''creative'' language. President Cli

The reform impetus in China's financial sector that began in January 1998 gave state banks enough cl

Next week the Council of Logistics Management will hold its annual meeting in Toronto. The meeting t

Investors just got another reason to be wary about Russia: A court there ruled that private investor

The World Trade Organization is about to reopen an important file it had to close three years ago wh

''And what am I bid for this vintage high-cube 40-foot reefer bound for sunny Osaka? The bidding sta

Ten years ago, Hurricane Hugo hit the U.S. mainland. At the time it was the strongest hurricane to c

Not long ago I was asked to give a talk on how Congress has changed since 1965, the year I entered i

The excuses business people give for bribing a public official are common enough:''If our co

''Timor Solidariedade!'' proclaimed the posters on Lisbon's graceful main thoroughfare, Avenida da L

LOS ANGELES TIMES:Some people who make a career out of worrying about international relation

Jakarta has voiced outrage at what's happening in East Timor, the Indonesian province where the popu

Chinese banks, particularly the largest state-owned ones, were handicapped in playing the critical r

Another opening, another show. And so it goes! Internet World has just ended and Comdex looms on the

Shipowners in the trans-Pacific announced last week that they intend to raise their rates next year

Get ready for a media event seven weeks from now when the World Trade Organization opens a key inter

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's Federal Open Market Committee left interest rates unchange

For centuries, cooks have tenderized meat by pounding it with a mallet or similar implement. Now a P

It is now more than a year since the Russian financial crisis threatened to destabilize the global e

Congress once again is struggling with two contentious issues: truck safetyand rail regulatory polic

If the global economic outlook has you down, you must have missed the recent International Monetary

The French are a strange race. They might play good football, and they certainly play adventurous ru

Whatever happened to the Federal Maritime Commission's investigation of shipping rates on Asian impo

The Clinton administration's recent decision to reduce sanctions on North Korea, and reports of wart

The U.S. merchandise trade deficit is setting new records almost monthly. Every new story on the top