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Initiative and cooperation are needed if the United States and Japan hope to ease friction arising f

Heavy U.S. pressure for protection of intellectual property rights seems to be making headway.

Hong Kong's tourism industry earned about 17.8 billion Hong Kong dollars (about US$2.3 billion) last

The stock market rebounded Monday in quieter trading following Friday's 100- point swing on record v

U.S. exporters are interpreting the decision by a Belgian steelmaker topurchase about 1.1 mi

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The Williams Companies' board of directors approved an agreement in principle for the sale of substa

Japan's Kyodo Oil Accepts Saudi PriceKyodo Oil Co. joined Mitsubishi Oil Co. in accepting Sa

Valsan Inc. announced it would re-engine a Boeing 727-200 owned by Sterling Airways of Copenhagen, D

Resignations Offered TAIPEI, Taiwan - Premier Yu Kuo-Hwa and several top government and ruli

The Maritime Administration received a request for payment on government- backed ship mortgage finan

Kloster Cruise signed a contract with Finland's Wartsila shipyard for construction of a 36,000-ton,

The port of Montreal reached a new milestone in 1986, handling nearly 5 million metric tons of conta

Taiwan's foreign reserves reached a record US$48 billion last week, up from $46 billion at the end o

Expressing concern over a grim" unemployment problem, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone told legislat

The Coal Association of Canada endorsed a federal-provincial government report which recommends that

Exxon Corp. reported fourth quarter net income of $1.48 billion, or $2.06 a share, down 18 percent f

Life insurers want to underwrite AIDS as a universal plague affecting all of mankind. To the actuary

The U.S. dollar moved nervously up and down in a narrow range Monday, with quotations mixed against

The Bank of Japan will not decide on a cut in its official discount rate until after Wednesday, in o

The Australian state of Queensland signed a A$1.5 billion (US$995 million) contract to build a coal-

Immunex Corp. announced it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to begin testing a si

One of the colony's oldest and largest trading conglomerates asked for suspension of trading of its

Koch Meeting Rejected WARSAW, Poland - Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski will not meet with visiting

Dutch cheese exporters have had little opportunity to send extra shipments of cheese to U.S. custome

Despite United States Lines' financial problems, several big shippers say they're sticking with the

Negotiations between U.S. and EC officials will continue today and Wednesday by telephone and video

The Swedish tankship owner Argonaut has found employment for two ultra-large crude carriers as stora

The dockers strike in Rotterdam's conventional cargo sector entered its second week with chances of

Permitting naval ships to chase and intercept hijacked vessels could deter terrorist incidents like

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Enzon Inc. and Eastman Kodak Co. announced they have signed an agreement whereby Kodak has agreed to

The U.S. dollar firmed slightly Friday against the deutsche mark and yen, although prices slipped so

Monsanto Co. announced an agreement with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. to work together to develop

The Reagan administration's secret sales of weapons to Iran could lead to increased U.S. dependence

The drop in the price of crude allowed Israel to cut its 1986 fuel bill to $580 million, about half

Most energy researchers say flatly that hydrogen will be too expensive to compete with fossil fuels

Potomac Electric Sales Increased 5.3 percent in 1986Potomac Electric Power Co.'s 1986 kilowa

The Energy Department received ideas for 137 clean coal-burning demonstration projects in response t

The Yugoslav government, grappling with the highest inflation, unemployment and per capita debt in E