Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Take a close look at what's happening at West Coast ports these days.Congestion at container

Amid all its other problems right now, the last thing the embattled Bank of New York must have expec

I was greatly saddened to hear of the passing of George F. Lowman, chairman and chief executive offi

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

Former Vice President Dan Quayle isn't the only politician to rearrange some basic facts in public.<

Most of the recent news reports about America's rising trade deficit assume that imports raise unemp

Hidden away behind China's public celebrations last week of the 50th anniversary of the establishmen

Only one year after merger, DaimlerChrysler's CEO is forcing out several key American executives. Th