Casting wider net in asbestos cases
Even as the U.S. Congress debates limiting asbestos lawsuits, juries in New York and Illinois have reached two of the biggest verdicts yet in cases involving former workers, dying of asbestos-related
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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SARS is disrupting worldwide business
As the highly contragious respiratory disease that began in China continues to spread, its impact on business activity is spreading from Hong Kong around the globe, disrupting complex supply chains
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A threatening disease
If they were not distracted by the war in Iraq, people would certainly be obsessing about severe acute respiratory syndrome, the mysterious illness that hs triggered a global health alert.The
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New SARS clusters battled in Vietnam and Hong Kong
Halth authorities in Vietnam and Hong Kong battled new clusters of a highly infectious deadly pneumonia on Friday as an estimated quarter million people prepared for holiday travel within the area
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SARS puts strains on hospitals in Asia
Pressure mounted on health systems in several Asian countries as the mysterious killer pneumonia infected more healthcare workers and sent more victims to hospitals. Doctors and nurses in Singapore,
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Betraying the world's poor
Two months after the Sept. 11 attacks, a grieving world agreed to an ambitious new round of trade talks aimed at helping the world's poorest
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Canada will sign pact to protect Antarctic
Canada, which controls much of the Arctic, will sign a treaty to protect the Antarctic environment this year, Environment Minister David Anderson said. The international treaty, known as the Madrid
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Australian drought causes steep drop in milk output
Dean Free dips 20000 Australian dollars ($12000) deeper into debt each month that his dairy farm in Victoria state goes without rain. His net worth has halved during the past year as drought cut milk
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Spread of SARS inside China is called grave'
China's government acknowledged that infections and deaths from SARS have spread to far-flung provinces, raising the risk of outbreaks ill-equipped rural regions and highlighting the difficulty of
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Trade barriers perpetuate poverty
The failure of World Trade Organization members to agree on guidelines for agricultural reform is a serious setback for the Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations. From what we heard in Geneva