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BY KEITH NUTHALL
MOZAMBIQUE will be admitted to the European Union’s special sugar market access agreement with producing countries in the African-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) block of (mostly) former colonies, following a European Commission inquiry into its sugar export industry.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EASHW) and the Organisation of American States have struck a deal, leading them to cooperate in the publicising of health and safety best practice that can be applied on both sides of the Atlantic.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE GOVERNMENTS of 34 countries from the Americas will be struggling today (Wed19/11) to come to a draft trade agreement, much of which centres on agricultural subsidies. The Free Trade Area of the Americas meeting being held in Miami has seen two competing camps vying for control.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IN 1995, when I visited the Laos capital Vientiane, it was a sleepy place; a quiet low rise French colonial town on the banks of the Mekong, a listless, aimless, but charming mix of Soviet-style socialist monuments, Buddhist temples and Provencal town houses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TOURISM once was regarded as a key to the developing world’s ills, allowing poor countries to make money out of their natural landscape and cultural attractions, but as with most success stories, there is a downside. In some countries, tourism has boomed so suddenly and aggressively, the development it has sparked has threatened to go out of control, spoiling the delights that lured tourists in the first place and creating a host of new environmental problems for governments to deal with.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL in Paris, ALAN OSBORN in London, MARK ROWE in Singapore, ED PETERS and DON GASPER in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST in Johannesburg, MONICA DOBIE and PHILIP FINE in Montreal, MATTHEW BRACE in Brisbane and ALEX SMAILES in Port of Spain.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
POLITICAL pressure is being applied by the European Parliament for negotiators at the ongoing World Trade Organisation’s Doha development round to impede developing countries from privatising their water systems. In a resolution on water services in poor countries, MEP’s called for a “serious assessment” of the privatisation of water services in developing countries and for its results “to be taken into account” in negotiations for updating the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is opposing the launch of a WTO case by Brazil, Australia and Thailand against EU sugar subsidies, claiming that the a successful challenge would undermine the trade preferences given to Europe’s sugar imports from poorer African, Pacific and Caribbean.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is opposing the launch of a WTO case by Brazil, Australia and Thailand against EU sugar subsidies, claiming a successful challenge would undermine trade preferences given to Europe’s sugar imports from poorer African, Pacific and Caribbean.…

BY ALEX SMALES
IN the Caribbean’s key capital of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, the branch of six-outlet chain RIK bookstores told the Bookseller it had sold more than “1,000 copies on the opening day,” with customers queuing for sales.…