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Wednesday, Aug 29, 2001

WTO - Mexico

MEXICO CITY

With prospects for a new round of world trade talks clouded by disagreements between rich and poor countries, Mexico will host informal talks Friday and Saturday, in a bid to narrow the differences.
World Trade Organization Director-General Michael Moore and ministers from 17 countries as well as from the European Union and Hong Kong are scheduled to attend the informal talks in the Mexican capital.
The gathering is seen as an effort to find more common ground ahead of the November 9-13 WTO meeting in Doha that could mark the beginning of a new round of global trade talks.
A previous attempt to agree on an agenda for a new round of talks ended in failure amid disagreements between rich and poor countries at the last WTO ...

US - food - PinstrupAndersen

WASHINGTON

Danish agronomist Per Pinstrup-Andersen has been credited with bringing food and farming issues to the forefront of government agendas in an effort to reduce poverty and hunger.
Pinstrup-Andersen, 62, was named recipient Monday of the World Food Prize, a 250,000-dollar award considered the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in the area of food and agriculture.
The ...

Pakistan - IMF

KARACHI

Pakistan and the International Monetary Fundare due to wrap up talks Tuesday over the release of the final tranche of a 596 million dollar standby facility, officials said.
They said the IMF, which is due to release the final ...

Asia - ILO

BANGKOK

Creating "decent work" for Asian workers will help combat poverty and social problems that have worsened in the aftermath of the regional economic crisis, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said Tuesday.
ILO ...

Pakistan - IMF

KARACHI

Pakistan hopes to receive the last tranche of a 596 million dollar standby facility from the International Monetary Fundnext month following talks with an IMF team this week, officials said Monday.
"The IMF board will give its ...

Canada - globalization

VANCOUVER, British Columbia

Hundreds of anti-globalization activists gathered here this week for the 2001 Civicus Assembly met Thursday with a top official of the World Bank, one of the agencies most widely condemned by the militants.
Mats Karlsson, the ...

Thailand

BANGKOK

(CNN) -- One of the FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, an alleged pedophile, was arrested in Bangkok Tuesday, a United States embassy official has confirmed.
Eric Franklin Rosser, 49, a professional jazz and concert pianist, was arrested in the Thai capital by FBI agents and the Royal Thai police acting on a tip from a U.S. television show.
Officers surrounded Rosser as he was walking into a school where he was enrolled to learn how to teach English.
The arrest came after Rosser was featured on the television show "America's Most Wanted" which led to ...

USA

WASHINGTON

Diplomats from the U.S., Germany and Australia have been denied extended visas and are preparing to leave Afghanistan without having seen eight Western aid workers being held on charges of proselytizing, the State Department has said. ...

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