U.S. faults China on WTO pledges
China's
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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U.S. agrees to share information on generic AIDS drugs with WHO
Officials of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have agreed to share confidential information on their approvals of generic AIDS drugs with the World Health Organization, U.S. and WHO officials
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Oysters on the brink
Efforts to constrain human behavior to protect wildlife inevitably provoke debate, never more so than when the wildlife in question is delicious. Thus the uproar in America about a commercially
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U.S. tobacco firms heading back to court
On and on they go, mammoth lawsuits in the United States against the biggest tobacco companies. Just two weeks ago, Philip Morris USA and five other cigarette makers were sued in a federal court in
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For Europe, we lost' on hybrids
This was the week that Europe's reluctant automobile industry bowed to the popularity of hybrid technology with a series of announcements by German carmakers that they would follow Toyota's lead
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U.S. EU talks fail to bridge the divide on farm subsidies
With three months left before a crucial deadline in global talks to reduce trade barriers, top negotiators for the United States and the European Union are still far apart on reducing their alborate
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Roberts stays tight-lipped on abortion and the right to die
Judge John Roberts Jr. faced increasingly contentious questions from Democrats as he outlined his views on an array of legal issues, but repeatedly refused to address some of the most ideologically
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On helping the poor
Most Americans wouldn't know a Millennium Development Goal, a Monterrey Consensus, or a Doha round if all three jumped out and hit them in the head. But those phrases have life-or-death importance to
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To Eskimos, warming is a rights issue
The Eskimos, or Inuit, about 155000 seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing
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13000 deaths foreseen in Tokyo quake
An estimated 13000 people would die and 800,000 homes could be destroyed if a severe earthquake struck directly underneath Japan's densely populated capital, a newspaper reported. The estimate was