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Trade ministers wrap up inconclusive talks on Doha

The Age (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Trade ministers were wrapping up three days of WTO talks on Wednesday with little headway seen on ending an eight-year stalemate on framing a trade liberalisation accord ahead of a 2010 deadline.

• WTO set to end inconclusive talks on Doha - Sydney Morning Herald
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Doha trade round hangs in balance as WTO wind up talks

Sify (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago

The troubled global trade round is hanging in balance as ministers and officials of the 153-member World Trade Organisation (WTO) launched in Geneva Wednesday the final day of talks aimed at reviewing the WTO's work.

• 1STLEAD: Doha trade round hangs in balance as WTO wind up talks - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• Trade round hangs in balance as ministers wind up WTO talks - Sify
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World's biggest chandelier being built in Doha

ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Qatari capital to be home to the chandelier measuring 38.5m long and 12.5m wide.

Clean energy tariff cuts should precede Doha - minister

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday

GENEVA (Reuters) - Governments should not wait for a full Doha Round deal before slashing punitive tariffs on wind turbines, solar panels and water-saving showers, Britain's top trade official said on Tuesday.

2NDLEAD: Doha trade round hangs in balance as WTO wind up talks

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Geneva - Ministers and officials of the 153-member World Trade Organization (WTO) are winding up a three-day meeting in Geneva Wednesday with the US facing pressure to take the lead in helping to kick-start the deadlo...

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UN corruption convention in Doha, rendered toothless

The Daily Salty (Free subscription) | yesterday

As you might know, the United Nations is trying to push for a good solid anti corruption convention with teeth and peer review globally. If this really takes off, then it will really help the world, and most importantly, the poor who get disproportionately hit by corruption. The rich can bribe their way through these things but the poor get hurt. But guess what? some countries objected to being peer...

Time for Nations to Walk Their Talk On the Doha Round

All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday

Four years ago, a ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation collapsed in Hong Kong.

U.S. says Doha deal possible in 2010

People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday

A successful conclusion of the long-stalled Doha Round of global trade talks is possible in 2010, the United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk said on Monday. "The United States is committed to achieving such an outcome, and I believe that success is possible in 2010," he told a plenary session of the seventh ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which kicked off...

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World economy has outgrown Doha Round, WTO meet told

Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | yesterday

Sharp swings in commodities and staple food markets were not factored into the original Doha agenda, and climate change is treated only on the margins of the talks.

WTO chief urges concrete action to break Doha Round stalemate

People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday

The 153 members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) need to take concrete and practical action to break the stalemate of the Doha Round trade negotiations, chief of the organization Pascal Lamy said on Monday. "Now we need action, concrete and practical action, to close the remaining gaps," Lamy told the opening of the seventh WTO Ministerial Conference. Attended by trade and agricultural...

Cappellini's Double in Doha Closes Gap for World Title!

Motorsports Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

F1 H2O / F1 Powerboat News DOHA, Qatar – Saturday, November 28, 2009 In what can be described as one of the most spell binding Grand Prix's in the history of the sport, the 12th round of the U.I.M. F1...

Trade ministers disagree on WTO Doha talks

France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday

Ministers meeting at a key WTO conference made renewed pledges to conclude long-running negotiations for a global trade pact, but also remained locked in differences on where concessions should come from. The United States called Monday on developing countries to make "meaningful market opening" but Brazil said it was "unreasonable" to expect developing countries to be the only...

Copenhagen talks must not stall like Doha

Ellee Seymour (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009

I’ve been closely following the Doha trade talks as my MEP Robert Sturdy, who as vice-chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary World Trade Organisation Committee, has played a key role in these negotiations. I know his frustrations only too well as year after year, world leaders fail to reach an agreement. Today we issued another press release voicing [...]

CARICOM highlights grave concerns at WTO meeting

Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

Attempts to recalibrate the mandate of the Doha Development Round and the imminent conclusion of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute on EU tariffs on ...