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KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States has rebuffed criticism at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) from textile and clothing exporting countries that they deliberately delayed abolishing quotas under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC). In a note to the WTO, mirroring a similar defence by Canada, the super-power rejected claims made by the International Textiles and Clothing Bureau (ITCB), representing exporting countries.…

Keith Nuthall
THE CONTROVERSIAL agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States over transferring airline passenger data to American authorities has been formally approved by the EU Council of Ministers, ignoring a legal challenge to the deal launched by the European Parliament.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EVERYONE knows commercial fraud costs business millions and millions of dollars and euros, but no one really knows how much. The United Nations is going to investigate, following a successful international seminar staged in Vienna. Keith Nuthall reports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A TRAINING programme for Croatian judges and prosecutors has been launched involving the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), to enable some of its war crimes cases to be heard in Croatia. The move will help ease the workload of the United Nations-backed tribunal which has been given until 2010 to wind up, preferably by 2008.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States, European Union, and other textile importers have been attacked for delaying restrictive quota abolition under the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Textile and Clothing. The International Textiles and Clothing Bureau (ITCB) of exporting countries said “the large bulk of quotas” would disappear on the agreement’s January 1, 2005, final deadline.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Trade Representative has claimed more than 95 per cent of US imports from sub-Saharan African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) eligible countries now enter America duty free. Exports rose by 55 per cent to US$14 billion from 2002 to 2003, mainly through higher oil sales.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNITED Nations cultural organisation UNESCO’s international programme for the development of communication has granted more than US$1.5 million to 62 (print and electronic) media projects in developing and transition countries.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HAVING no central government has proved no hindrance to Somalia making advances in public health, said United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Somali health organisations reported its last case in 2002 and are organising a major immunisation campaign.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
DEVELOPING countries should create their own domestic strategies to reverse the loss of highly skilled citizens to developed countries, the United Nations Commission on Population and Development has recommended.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE BASIC pay of directors at 58 of the 60 largest Canadian public companies increased dramatically in 2003, due to longer working hours and the need for more attractive incentives to lure American talent. A Report on Business survey, published in the country’s Globe and Mail newspaper, found that base retainers paid to directors climbed 28 per cent in 2003 from 2002.…