According to regional network Telesur, President Lula da Silva hailed the victory of Vietnam over the American mighty army in 1973. President da Silva paid his first visit to Hanoi to increase bilateral relations with Vietnam. Brazil backed Vietnam entry into WTO in 2007...
As the global food crisis continues to intensify, the World Bank has announced a $1.2 billion credit to assist nations in dealing with skyrocketing food prices and "widespread hunger".See other NowPublic coverage on...
""We need to be able to move towards as early as possible a conclusion of the Doha development agenda, particularly in the area of agriculture," Supachai Panitchpakdi told a news conference on the eve of an UNCTAD summit in Ghana.A doubling of the prices of major cereals on...
The Last Americans ? And throw in GOP’s own libertarian fruit cake Ron Paul for good measure ;) NOW... "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want...
Caracas, Venezuela, 18 March, 2008. Venezuelan Minister for Oil and President of PDVSA, Rafael Ramirez, has announced his country won an ordeal at a London court. Thus, it has managed to reverse a...
A woman is wrongly in prison in communist Vietnam. Her number one crime? Using the Internet. You can help see to her freedom.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte travels to Vietnam this week. We ask him to make a commitment to free Le Thi Cong...
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry." - Frank Zappa
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Seems like the Democrats and Republicans are two wings of the same party ? Are modern democracies reduced to...
From the CBC Radio 3 Blog:"I was checking out the comments on a CBC story about the Security and Prosperity Partnership summit, and one of the commenters said they'd heard a story on local radio about three men...
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Today's headlines on Reuters and BBC (as well as others) mention that WTO trade talks are about to collapse. Honestly, this is big news...but it's hard to understand why. The news talks about something called "Doha"...
Human Rights Watch Issues an Alert on Vietnam
New York, March 9, 2007– The Vietnamese government, emboldened by international recognition after joining the World Trade Organization and hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, is flouting its...
"In 2000, it cost $10,000 per year for antiretroviral (ARV) treatment of HIV patients in the third world -- today, that cost is 70 bucks for the same period. If the pharmaceutical giant Novartis has its way, that...
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In the legal battle between United States and Antigua about online gambling restrictions, US has suffered another blow. According to a confidential report issued by the World Trade Organization (WTO) U.S. has not taken the steps necessary to resolve the now four-year long...
In the legal battle between United States and Antigua about online gambling restrictions, US has suffered another blow. According to a confidential report issued by the World Trade Organization (WTO) U.S. has not taken the steps necessary to resolve the now four-year long...
" Continetalism here we come. This has always been the main dispute between the Nationalist Left of the ruling class against the Contientalist Right of the ruling class."
"Just googling around and I found this little item about the Wheat Board from the folks that want to kill it. It was addressed to Ralph Goodale and is from 2005. Clearly what the Liberals would not grant them Chuck Strahl has. And if you notice from the signatories, they are...