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Agence France Presse / Patrick Baert BEIJING, March 29 (AFP) - The European Union said Wednesday trade talks with China were going slowly and that substantial progess was still needed for an agreement towards securing Beijing's WTO membership.

By ALAN COWELL / New York Times Laying out his vision of the future of the International Monetary Fund, Horst Kohler, the new managing director, said today that rather than shrinking as some critics have suggested, the fund should expand its role as "a crucial cornerstone" of globalization.

Consumer demand in Washington state for eco-friendly lumber is surpassing supply, even as a growing number of wood products firms turn to harvesting and selling timber from sustainably managed forests. The state Department of Natural Resources just announced that it would like

IRRI Press Release Los Baoos, Philippines -- The world's rice-producing nations, which feed well over half the people on the planet, have been warned research efforts to ensure the food security of their burgeoning populations could be affected unless they prepare proper laws on plant variety protection (PVP) and intellectual property (IP).

WASHINGTON, March 29 (Reuters) - A third year of low grain prices will weaken the financial footing of many U.S. farmers unless Congress intercedes again, agricultural lenders said on Wednesday.

Agence France Presse / Nathaniel Harrison WASHINGTON, March 29 (AFP) - President Bill Clinton on Wednesday warned Congress that both the economy and national security of the United States would be endangered if it failed to grant permanent trade privileges to China.

The San Francisco Chronicle / Editorial U.S. Shouldn't Yield To Unreasonable Demands of China BY Nancy Pelosi

[as posted to the BIO-IPR docserver, GRAIN] News comes amid concerns that genomics race could lead to shoddy science and profiteering. Paul Jacobs, Peter G. Gosselin / Los Angeles Times / 03/21/00 Scientists have uncovered what they believe are glaring errors in a patent issued last month to Human Genome Sciences Inc. for a human gene that plays a crucial role in AIDS.