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Trade Ministers: Running Out Of Time To Conclude Treaty This Year

Associated Press Worldstream | By NAOMI KOPPEL | January 23, 2004 World governments have less than a month to decide whether they can conclude a major trade liberalization treaty at a meeting in Hong Kong at the end of year, politicians were told Friday.

Brazil Must Seek Other Sectors, Says Ricupero

GAZETA MERCANTIL INVEST NEWS | January 23, 2004

A Trade Test for U.S.

Los Angeles Times | By Evelyn Iritani | January 20, 2004 U.S. milk, beef and sugar producers -- including hundreds of California dairy farmers -- are likely losers if the Bush administration finalizes a trade pact with Australia that is seen as a key test of America's resolve in promoting global free trade.

Zambian Govt To Give 100,000 People Free AIDS Drugs As Work Force Is Decimated

AFX | January 16, 2004 President Levy Mwanawasa announced today that his government will provide free anti-retroviral drugs to about 100,000 patients by next year through the country's public health system.

World""s Biggest Anti-Globalization Conference Opens In India

Associated Press Worldstream | By RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM | January 16, 2004 Activists clanged cymbals, beat drums and yelled anti-war and anti-globalization slogans Friday, as they geared up for the opening of the World Social Forum.

Anti-Globalisation Activists Head To First Post-Iraq War Strategy Forum

Agence France Presse | By SHAUN TANDON | January 16, 2004 Low-caste Hindus who marched across India and Japanese pacifists sailing a "peace boat" converged on Bombay Friday for a six-day anti-globalisation convention where opposition to the US occupation of Iraq was topping a litany of causes.

Dissenters Shun Bush, Pepsi, Coke, Microsoft, Globalization And Much Else

Associated Press Worldstream | By NEELESH MISRA | January 16, 2004 Activists from around the world who have gathered to protest big business and big government at the World Social Forum have put their beliefs into practice, from food and drinks to computer operating systems.

World Social Meet To Cost Rs 8.5 Cr

The Times of India | By S. Balakrishnan | January 16, 2004 MUMBAI: Nearly 60 per cent of the funding for the World Social Forum (WSF) beginning here on January 16 is coming from abroad. The sixday event is estimated to cost a whopping Rs 8.5 crore and does not include the expenses being incurred by the organisers on travel and telecom.

Bush Meets Skepticism on Free Trade at Americas Conference

The New York Times | By TIM WEINER | January 14, 2004 President Bush spent hours here during the past two days at the Summit of the Americas mending fences with his neighbors, Mexico and Canada. But he left the leaders of some other countries feeling shut out.

The Americas"" New Left Challenges Bush

Los Angeles Times | By Richard Boudreaux | January 14, 2004 Ending a contentious two-day summit on how to fight poverty, the leaders of Latin America and Canada joined President Bush on Tuesday in pledging to "deny refuge to corrupt officials, those who corrupt them, and their assets."