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How To Revive WTO Talks, Key Question For Some 20 Ministers Meeting In Davos

Agence France Presse | By DEBORAH HAYNES | January 23, 2004 How best to re-launch global trade talks is set to be the burning question for more than 20 trade or economics ministers due to meet Friday on the fringe of the elite World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

Japan, US End Meeting Without Agreement On Lifting Beef Import Ban

AFX - Asia | January 23, 2004 Japanese and US officials said they ended a day of talks without agreeing on the conditions needed to lift Tokyo's ban on US beef imports, imposed after the discovery of mad cow disease in the US.

Brazil""s Furlan Confident Over WTO Talks After Informal Davos Meeting

AFX European Focus | January 23, 2004 Brazil's minister of Development, Industry and Trade Luiz Fernando Furlan said informal meetings in Davos have helped progress towards a positive conclusion to the Doha round of WTO trade talks at the end of this year.

A Trade Test for U.S.

Los Angeles Times | By Evelyn Iritani | January 20, 2004 U.S. milk, beef and sugar producers -- including hundreds of California dairy farmers -- are likely losers if the Bush administration finalizes a trade pact with Australia that is seen as a key test of America's resolve in promoting global free trade.

Zambian Govt To Give 100,000 People Free AIDS Drugs As Work Force Is Decimated

AFX | January 16, 2004 President Levy Mwanawasa announced today that his government will provide free anti-retroviral drugs to about 100,000 patients by next year through the country's public health system.

World""s Biggest Anti-Globalization Conference Opens In India

Associated Press Worldstream | By RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM | January 16, 2004 Activists clanged cymbals, beat drums and yelled anti-war and anti-globalization slogans Friday, as they geared up for the opening of the World Social Forum.

Anti-Globalisation Activists Head To First Post-Iraq War Strategy Forum

Agence France Presse | By SHAUN TANDON | January 16, 2004 Low-caste Hindus who marched across India and Japanese pacifists sailing a "peace boat" converged on Bombay Friday for a six-day anti-globalisation convention where opposition to the US occupation of Iraq was topping a litany of causes.

Dissenters Shun Bush, Pepsi, Coke, Microsoft, Globalization And Much Else

Associated Press Worldstream | By NEELESH MISRA | January 16, 2004 Activists from around the world who have gathered to protest big business and big government at the World Social Forum have put their beliefs into practice, from food and drinks to computer operating systems.

World Social Meet To Cost Rs 8.5 Cr

The Times of India | By S. Balakrishnan | January 16, 2004 MUMBAI: Nearly 60 per cent of the funding for the World Social Forum (WSF) beginning here on January 16 is coming from abroad. The sixday event is estimated to cost a whopping Rs 8.5 crore and does not include the expenses being incurred by the organisers on travel and telecom.

Bush Meets Skepticism on Free Trade at Americas Conference

The New York Times | By TIM WEINER | January 14, 2004 President Bush spent hours here during the past two days at the Summit of the Americas mending fences with his neighbors, Mexico and Canada. But he left the leaders of some other countries feeling shut out.