Members call for change in WTO dispute system
When the World Trade Organization was created five years ago, a dispute settlement system was set up to finalize trade squabbles. Now, some of the smaller members of the 138-nation WTO are signaling
When the World Trade Organization was created five years ago, a dispute settlement system was set up to finalize trade squabbles. Now, some of the smaller members of the 138-nation WTO are signaling
The Red Cross requested international assistance of $3.5 million to provide relief to some of the millions of villagers left homeless by devastating floods in eastern
Using a new kind of vaccine, researchers report that they have been able to control a particularly lethal strain of AIDS virus in monkeys. The vaccine, made of DNA, did not prevent the animals from
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has effectively revoked the license for the genetically engineered corn that has now been linked to the nationwide recalls of two brands of taco shells. The
A growing disaster : Burma has become an epicenter for the spread of AIDS in Asia. Yet both the Burmese military government and the opposition, intent on their own political agendas, ignore the
Something pigs ate? : A sandwich, a seagull, a pork pie or even an Asian wild boar-hunt is widening for what set off a swine fever outbreak in eastern England. The Agriculure Ministry cast doubt on
A book about anthropologists working with isolated Indians in Amazonia has touched off a raging storm in the profession. In the book, "Darkness in El Doarado: How Scientists and Journalists Devasted
A recent report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and the Asian Development Bank warned that the environment in Asia was under stress because of rapid
Over the past 20 years, biologists have voiced increasing concern about the monarch butterfly's most threatened and critical habitat, a single stretch of Mexican forest to which hundreds of millions
An American decision to punish Japan for expanding its whale-hunting by denying the country certain fishing rights in U.S. waters is unjust, Japanese leaders said. The chief cabinet secretary,