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
Investigators were focusing on whether laboratory contamination was the cause of a case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) that Singapore reported this week. The infection of the Singapore
The European Union is chipping away at some of the last unreformed bastions of its common agricultural policy in a move that will also target the EU's heavily protected sugar sector. Tobacco, cotton,
Developing nations have been taking a bolder approach towards generic Aids drugs in recent months, even before negotiations on global rules for drug patents were concluded. Trade diplomats rushed to
Anyone who has spent a night moored over a coral reef will remember the strange snap, crackle and pop noise that comes from the water. The strange sounds are the aquatic equivalent of the dawn chorus
Leading trade powers warned that this week's World Trade Organisation ministerial meeting in Mexico risked failure unless countries immediately abandoned entrenched positions and held serious
The World Trade Oganisation's ministerial meeting in Cancun collapsed in confusion after African and Asian countries united to reject demands by the European Union and Japan for rules on investment
US laboratory tests have confirmed that a Singapore medical researcher has severe acute respiratory syndrome, the world's first case in three months. Singapore reported the case last week after the
Anglo-American, the London based global resources company, aims to be one the world's lowest-cost zinc producers after the opening of its Skorpion mine in Namibia at the weekend. The $454m mine and
Scientists are developing a new wave of vaccines to cure drug addiction. Seeking to go beyond the original purpose of preventing infectious illness, Xenova, a UK biotechnology, company is developing
The mass departure of French doctors and social workers for the traditional August holiday and administrative shortcomings within the health service contributed towards the deaths of more than 11000
