Ebbing away: Hong Kong's ivory trade
As Hong Kong moves towards the final step of a landmark ivory ban, TRAFFIC has released a report that acknowledges progress, but urges tighter regulation on privately owned ivory stocks, antique ivory
Hong Kong
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The emissions game: how markets can help save the planet
This report gives a detailed account of emissions trading schemes and their potential for environmental mitigation and profit generation. The authors cover the U.S. acid rain program, the Kyoto protocol and its clean development mechanism, the European Union emissions trading scheme, climate exchanges, China's pilot programs, and the possibility of linking up these disparate systems.
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Not so special
India floundering after WTO ministerial
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Deep loss
A round 2,800 fisherfolk in Hong Kong are demanding about us $180 million compensation from the Hongkong Electric Company (hec), a private firm, for the loss of fish stock and fishing gear allegedly
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A trade stalemate
Recent events reinforce the view that the ambitious trade liberalisation agenda that developed countries, primarily the U.S. and the E.U., have tried to realise through the WTO is a non-starter. It is
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Hong Kong: a beginning?
In making TRIPS responsive to needs of poor countries?
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NEWS SNIPPETS
<font face=arial size=3 color=#CE181E><b>•</b></font> Conservationists have slammed media mogul Disney for its plans to serve shark's fin soup, sea cucumber and abalone in restaurants at its new theme park in Hong Kong in September. "Promoting these marine species is not responsible because they are not sustainably harvested.
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The long and winding road
The chaos on the roads is choking the growth of India's IT capital, Bangalore
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Choke a bloc
Hong Kong's air pollution hit an alarming high on September 14, with the index rising to over 200. This is the highest it has risen since air quality monitoring was introduced in 1995. Experts lay
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State and scandal
Independent laboratory tests carried out in Hong Kong revealed genetically engineered (ge) seeds in packages of papaya seeds being sold by the department of agriculture's research station in the
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In Court
row-ridden project: A Hong Kong court has cleared a huge reclamation project in the city's Victoria Harbour despite activists pointing out that the venture could destroy the world-famous waterway.