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Almost There – WTO Chief speaks on the progress on the Doha round of trade talks

A recent article by Canada’s Globe and Mail on an interview with WTO chief Pascal Lamy on his thoughts about reaching to an end of the eight-year drag (or battle, for protectionist) of the Doha round of talks. Lamy believes that as the deal is almost complete, one of the key players, US, will win [...]

Can’t solve it with just a delivery order: More people will be people the ranks of the hungry, U.N. World Food Programme warns

A recent article on there are not just an inequality in wealth distribution but food is also unequally distributed as more and more people in the developing world will fact starvation for the coming years.
The global climate change is a becoming a “catalyst” in this aged problem. Maybe G-8 or now the G-20 should have [...]

From a CEO’s prespective: Cathay’s Tony Tyler speaks on carbon emissions and the aviation industry

There was a “heated”  debate in class yesterday night on whether carbon trading or  carbon cap could help industries to cut down on carbon emission .
Many of us have doubts on whether it is a correct approach to tackle global warming or just another cover-up by big corporations on how dirty (in terms of pollution) they [...]

NYT: On Wall Street, Obama Pushes Stricter Finance Rules

One year after the financial crisis broke out and with the vital signs of the economy has been “slowly improving”, President Obama is pushing for stricter regulations on Wall Street’s daily operation, not just to protect consumers, but to protect the integrity of the world’s financial system as a whole.
While the forever dilemma or debates [...]