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Sweat-free labels to change the garment trade [Blowback]
In a May 7 Op-Ed article, Richard Greenwald and Michael Hirsch exhort consumers to support the workers who make our clothes rather than the global apparel industry that exploits them with low wages and unsafe working conditions. Yet exactly how we...
Tags: Northern Mariana Islands, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Sales, Laws
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Brazilian named to head World Trade Organization
SAO PAULO, Brazil--Roberto Azevedo of Brazil has been elected the first Latin American director-general of the World Trade Organization, the global body charged with moving forward stalled trade agreement talks. The choice of Azevedo over close rival...
Tags: Elizabeth II, Politics, Mexico, Trade Agreements, International Organizations
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Indian court ruling hailed as victory for generic drugs
The Indian Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Swiss drug company cannot patent a medicine used to treat a rare form of leukemia, in a decision with global implications for generic drugs. The court ruled that Glivec, the drug developed by Novartis, was...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Contracts, Trade Agreements, Leukemia
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Bid to ban commercial trade in polar bears fails
An unusual coalition between the U.S. and Russia to win an international ban on commercial trade of polar bear parts failed Thursday. Meeting in Bangkok, delegates to the 176-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species voted down a U....
Tags: Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Issues, Endangered Species, Hunting, Population
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Hugo Chavez: Admired and despised by readers
For just as many reasons readers found to sneer at Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who died Tuesday after a lengthy battle with cancer, others found reasons to praise the late strongman. While several readers slammed Chavez for behaving like a dictator and...
Tags: Venezuela, Jimmy Carter, Poverty, Joseph P. Kennedy, Trade Agreements
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Obama calls for 'smarter' government in State of the Union
WASHINGTON – Declaring that the nation is stronger “after years of grueling recession,” President Obama advocated an array of modest second-term initiatives Tuesday night that he said wouldn’t bust the federal budget. There...
Tags: Government, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mitt Romney
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Tour bus crash: Federal investigators looking at maintenance records
L.A. NOWFederal officials spent Tuesday scouring a San Diego-area bus company's office, interviewing the owner and taking maintenance records as part of their investigation into the tour bus crash on California 38 that killed seven and injured dozens more.... -
Tour bus crash: Residents smelled burning brakes, heard horn
L.A. NOWResidents of the San Bernardino Mountain community of Mountain Home Village heard a bus roar by Sunday night, its horn honking, and smelled burning brakes in its wake. Moments later, it would hit a car, fall on its side and...... -
Colombia bomb injures ex-minister, kills 2 as new trade era dawns
World NowA former Colombian cabinet minister was injured in a bomb blast that killed five people in Bogota on the day that the Colombia-U.S. Free Trade Agreement starts taking effect... -
Miguel de la Madrid dies at 77; former president of Mexico
MEXICO CITY —Former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid, who led the country amid economic meltdown and natural disaster in the 1980s but laid the groundwork for freer markets and political opening, has died. He was 77.
De la Madrid died Sunday...Tags: Government, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Finance, Trade Policy
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South Koreans still angry over U.S. free-trade pact
World NowFree trade pact: South Koreans continue to protest a free-trade agreement signed with the U.S. that takes affect next month... -
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