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Apr. 29 2000 / Los Angeles Times

Reuters Asia's top banking showcase drew to a close on Monday amid tight security with promises of a region-wide fight against poverty. The last day of the Asian Development Bank annual meeting in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai focused on an ADB plan to channel hundreds of millions of dollars into targetted anti-poverty programmes.

May 1, 2000 The State's crops bring home the global debate on genetics. And while one problem is solved, is another being created? By Jim Erickson / Arizona Daily Star Arizona cotton growers, who were among the first in the nation to embrace a biotech version of the crop, are being sucked into a global firestorm over genetically modified plants.

Daily Report For Executives To address concerns for the labor aspects of trade policy-making, President Clinton is establishing a new labor office within the Office of the United States Trade Representative, White House Chief of Staff John Podesta said in a May 3 letter to Reps. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) and Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.).

May 1, 2000 / Nature Biotechnology A research team has adapted a technique that employs small hairpin-shaped molecules made up of RNA and DNA to introduce single base changes into DNA; the team has successfully generated herbicide-resistant plants with just a single change in the genetic code. Pinpoint crop engineering

By Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA, May 8 (IPS) - The World Trade Organisation (WTO) was finally able to overcome a difference of opinion that got in the way of the agricultural committee's normal operations: it named Peruvian negotiator Jorge Voto-Bernales president of this strategic negotiating arena.

April 29, 2000 / Cornell University The EPA has granted registration for the agricultural use of harpin, a Cornell-discovered protein that induces a plant to mobilize its own defenses against pathogens and insects; the protein also enhances plant growth.

May 1/00 / PRNewswire ST. LOUIS -- The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) applauds a decision by Kellogg Co. shareholders on Friday directing the company to continue using biotech crops in its food products. A company spokesman said the vote was 97 percent against a proposal to force the cereal maker to stop using biotech crops in the United States.