MAE SOT, Thai-Burma border — Heavily pregnant, Ma Thi Da brings out the plates that she, and 500 other Burmese women, made and then hand-painted in a factory in this border town. They'll fetch a pretty penny in the export markets
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While trade bureaucrats from the rich countries begin negotiations in Geneva to extend the World Trade Organisation's Agreement on Agriculture, a new report released by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) shows
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Canberra's plans to secure greater Asian markets for the big Australian corporations took a beating in Chiangmai, Thailand, on October 8 when a meeting of economic ministers of the Association for South-East Asian Nations rejected
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There were no major announcements, no new policy initiatives, all the drama was outside with the protesters, and the meetings finished a full day early. Nevertheless, when the annual meetings of the World Bank and International
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Now that the initial surge of euphoria and adrenaline is slowly dissipating into afterglow, it's time to dissect the S11 protests against the World Economic Forum's Melbourne summit. What made them a success? Here's an attempt at some answers.
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The S11 protests against the World Economic Forum summit in Melbourne may have claimed a quite unintended, but welcome, victim: a quick launch of a new round of World Trade Organisation talks. The Seattle ministerial meeting of the
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Victorian Premier Steve Bracks is under heavy fire over his enthusiastic support for the vicious assaults by the Victoria Police on S11 protesters. The uproar has caused him to cancel a planned barbecue to thank police for their
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MELBOURNE — At the end, those blockading the World Economic Forum were exhausted and euphoric, in equal measure, but with only a taste for the magnitude of what they'd achieved. At S11, the veil which separates the people from the
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MELBOURNE — "We can do it, we will do it and we must do it. Let the struggle begin", said Malaysian consumer rights activist Meena Ramon of the global movement to end corporate globalisation, to rousing cheers at a seminar here on
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MELBOURNE — Organisers of protests against the World Economic Forum have angrily rejected accusations that their opposition to "free trade" and corporate-driven globalisation is a new form of Western "protectionism" that will hurt
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MELBOURNE — "The most important thing I can tell people in Australia is that this fight against the World Economic Forum is not just of concern to people in this country; it concerns people everywhere, all over the world", said
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Killing people is big business. In 1999, the United States spent US$276 billion on its military, just over a third of the world's total military expenditure. In 2000, the Pentagon's budget is expected to hit US$310 billion. Pentagon