Liu Xiao spends her weeks visiting sludge and organic waste treatment plants across China. The travel can be tiring but as a technical and policy adviser on waste management she must help implement President
The US issued its clearest warning yet that it may take legal action in the World Trade Organisation against the European Union for the EU's refusal to approve new genetically modified crops.
A request by four southern African nations for a lifting of the ban on ivory sales, and a Japanese proposal to allow whalemeat exports, are expected to produce a stormy debate ahead of a meeting of
European Union foreign ministers last night agreed to postpone the controversial issue of negotiating farm subsidies with the 10 candidate countries, which hope to conclude enlargement negotiations
The White House is about to announce a new package of aid to developing countries, focused on the threat of Aids transmission from mothers to babies. The announcement, which could come as early as
International development targets to halve world poverty and hunger by 2015 will not be reached without action to reduce the impact of natural disasters on the poor, according to the latest World
Roche received a welcome boost when European regulators approved Pegasys, the Swiss healthcare group's new treatment for hepatitis C. Pegasys is the group's only important new drug launch this year
Europe and parts of central Asia are about to be declared 'polio free' by an expert commission of the World Health Organisation. In an important milestone towards the agency's goal of eradicating
It is no surprise that Russia has run into trouble negotiating its entry into the World Trade Organisation. Nor should last week's setback in accession talks be a matter of great regret. A country as
Costa Rica is not an easy place to run a logging business. Environmental sensitivity is so high that trees cannot be cut down without exhaustive plans and government permission, and public opinion
Franz Fishler. the European Union's farm commissioner,has taken everyone by surprise with the ambitiousness of his blueprint for reforming the controversial Common Agricultural Policy. In a draft
