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An UNCTAD XII pre-event organized under the auspices of the Working Group on Trade of the United Nations Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs, comprising UNCTAD, ESCAP, ECA, ECE, ECLAC, ESCWA, UNEP and UNDP.
The Secretary-General : Bonjour, Mesdames et Messieurs de la presse, Monsieur Daniel Pruzin, President de l'ACANU Genve.
D'abord, mes meilleurs voeux de sante et de bonheur pour cette annee 2008. Je suis heureux d'tre de nouveau avec vous ici, Genve.
Excerpt from report by state-owned Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
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President Kufuor has charged security forces to play their role professionally to protect the integrity of this year's election.
The UNCTAD Virtual Institute (Vi) brings together a network of institutions of higher learning from around the world who conduct teaching and research on globalisation, international trade and development. Today, the network has grown to an impressive 23 member institutions.
AMBASSADOR ALLGEIER DELIVERS REMARKS ON THE TRADE POLICY REVIEW OF GHANA, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND,AS RELEASED BY THE U.S. MISSION TO THE U.N.
JANUARY 28, 2008
SPEAKER: AMBASSADOR PETER F. ALLGEIER, U.S. PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE, WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
Developing economies have been catching up with information and communications technology(ICT) due to stronger intra-regional business ties and rapid growth in mobile phone usage, according to SupachaiPanitchpakdi, the secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), the Bangkok Postreports.
SA's trade negotiators once again confront a daunting trade landscape. As the year unfolds, it is useful to chalk up key challenges and markers in this regard.
New Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has to get points for boldness in the announcement of two megaprojects totalling 500 billion baht in the opening days of his term, but his scores for judgement are looking much worse.
Arcadis and International Business Machines Corp are exploring opportunities to work together in the area of advanced water management, the Dutch engineering company said.
The idea comes after IBM announced the creation of a global centre of excellence for water management in Amsterdam.
The mystery surrounding an outbreak of food poisoning in Japan that has been linked to Chinese made dumplings deepened today after the health minister, Yoichi Masuzoe, said they may have been deliberately contaminated.
Thanks to a White House veto threat, Congress is on the path to an overall tightening of farm subsidy rules, said a staunch Senate advocate of payment limit reform on Tuesday.
Activists, executives, regulators, and investors have toiled to hold corporations accountable. They have used a wide range of strategies including public relations, the development of regulation, consumer boycotts, and shareholder activism to press companies to "do the right thing."
Antibiotics that are critical for human health should not be licensed for use as growth promoters in livestock, physician and human rights advocate Robert Lawrence said at a lecture Monday at Iowa State University.
On Aug. 31, a federal judge acknowledged what many people have long known -- we have run up against the limits of our water supplies. U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger ruled that state and federal water managers must change how they operate California's water system to reduce environmental harm.
Boone Pickens, the high-rolling oilman, may have engineered one of his shrewdest takeovers yet in the form of eight acres of Texas scrubland.
Israeli researchers are calling for a reassessment of the use of desalinated water for irrigation, warning in an article published in today's issue of Science Magazine that desalinated water adversely affects some crops, such as tomatoes, basil and certain varieties of flowers.
Earl Butz, the U.S. secretary of agriculture who was forced to resign after telling an obscenity- laced racist joke in 1976, died yesterday in Washington. He was 98 and the oldest living former Cabinet member.