Trade Dispute

Sweat-free labels to change the garment trade [Blowback]

2013-05-15 15:01:00

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...

Brazilian named to head World Trade Organization

2013-05-07 14:21:00

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...

Indian court ruling hailed as victory for generic drugs

2013-04-01 12:42:00

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...

Bid to ban commercial trade in polar bears fails

2013-03-07 05:00:00

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....

Hugo Chavez: Admired and despised by readers

2013-03-06 13:44:00

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...

Obama calls for 'smarter' government in State of the Union

2013-02-12 19:53:00

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...

Tour bus crash: Federal investigators looking at maintenance records

2013-02-06 05:53:06

Tour bus crash: Residents smelled burning brakes, heard horn

2013-02-05 13:43:49

Colombia bomb injures ex-minister, kills 2 as new trade era dawns

2012-05-15 16:38:40

Miguel de la Madrid dies at 77; former president of Mexico

2012-04-02 00:00:00

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...

South Koreans still angry over U.S. free-trade pact

2012-02-26 04:37:24

Daley resigns as White House chief of staff

2012-01-09 18:47:00

Lawmaker Kim Sun-Dong (bottom) of the Democratic Labour Party detonating a tear gas canister towards the chairman's seat at the National Assembly to try to stop the ruling Grand National Party's move to ratify a bill on a free trade agreement with the United States, in Seoul

2011-11-22 00:00:00

Protesters are hit by water cannons used by the police as they try to march towards the headquarters of the ruling Grand National Party during a rally against the South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement (FTA) talks in Seoul.

2011-11-10 00:00:00

South Korean police use a water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a rally opposing a free trade agreement with the United States outside the Parliament in Seoul on November 3, 2011.

2011-11-03 14:10:02