President Bush has met at the White House with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the wide-ranging talks covered issues from trade to human rights. President Bush, right, meets with Vietnamese PM Nguyen Tan Dung i...
By Scott Stearns White House 23 May 2008 U.S. President George Bush wants Congress to approve a free trade agreement with Colombia. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, opposition Democrats have delayed that vote until after November...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 17 April 2008 The World Trade Organization's (WTO) annual report finds world-trade growth slowed to 5.5 percent in 2007 from 8.5 percent the year before. WTO predicts global trade growth will continue to slow this year. Lisa Sc...
By Scott Stearns White House 12 March 2008 President Bush says Congress should approve a free-trade agreement with Colombia in recognition of President Alvaro Uribe's fight against violence and drug trafficking. VOA White House Correspondent Scott St...
By Jim Fry Washington 04 March 2008 Free trade has become a key issue in the U.S. presidential campaign in the past several weeks, especially in the heated contest to become the Democratic party's nominee. Amid the loss of manufacturing jobs in [the...
By Michael Bowman Washington 02 March 2008 Amid a weakening U.S. economy, America's foreign-trade policy has become a contentious issue in the presidential race. Both major Democratic Party candidates say free-trade pacts have harmed American workers...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 14 February 2008 Indian authorities are investigating a large-scale illegal organ transplant ring that involves removing kidneys from poor people and selling them to rich Indians and foreigners. Anjana Pasricha reports fr...
By Steve Herman New Delhi 14 February 2008 India is considering lifting certain trade duties with African countries. The move is aimed at countering China's increasing business ventures in the resource-rich continent. VOA's Steve Herman reports from...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 02 February 2008 During the past decade, more than 350 million people from around the world have been forced to flee their homes as a result of natural disaster and conflict. When disaster strikes, aid agencies rush food, medic...
By Greg Flakus 22 January 2008 The three major candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination met Monday in a debate televised by the Cable News Network and co-sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. The event, which took place...