The Thai government is calling for broader regional support to police illegal wildlife trafficking, especially to China. Thailand is training more than 200 Bangkok airport personnel to assist in the recovery of wildlife trafficked through the intern...
Writing in Britain's Observer newspaper, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is calling for a return to old-fashioned, conservative banking practices. It is a change for Mr. Brown who as Treasury Secretary for a decade was a proponent of the light regulator...
By Kari Barber Dakar 08 November 2007 The deadline is approaching for new trade deals between the European Union and nearly 80 countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. African leaders and economists worry the new deals, which are designed...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 28 August 2007 A team of U.S. lawmakers visiting South Korea says a major free-trade deal signed several months ago may have to wait until next year for passage. Other pressing business before the U.S. Congress, and some unsettled...
By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 05 June 2006 watch World Bank Store report Shopping inside the World Bank store, called Pangea The World Bank has taken a new approach to globalization. The organization b...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 12 April 2006 Trade experts from all over Africa met Wednesday in the Kenyan capital as part of the African Union's Ministers of Trade conference. The conference's aim is to...
By Peter Heinlein Pop icon Ricky Martin has gone to the United Nations to appeal for global action to protect children from sexual predators. The singer perhaps best known for his hit song Livin' La V...