Liu Xiao spends her weeks visiting sludge and organic waste treatment plants across China. The travel can be tiring but as a technical and policy adviser on waste management she must help implement President
The US Food and Drug Administration has told Abbott Laboratories, the US pharmaceuticals and medical products group, that it must identify the contamination problem in Abbokinase before new batches
The US has revoked anti-dumping regulations, in place since 1991, one New Zealand exports of kiwifruit. The regulations were imposed after Californian growers complained New Zealand had been dumping
The Zabbaleen, are heirs of a group of Coptic Christians from southern Egypt who arrived in Cairo in the 1900s and they have become a key element in the city's life. The word itself means garbage.
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has issued a report on how genetically modified organisms should be categorised, in what is seen to be the first step towards mandatory
Caribbean and Latin American banana exporters will hold a series of meetings starting this month to resolve their differences over access to the European Union market. The first talks will be held
A group of researchers from the UK, Brazil and Switzerland has found a potentially valuable way to enhance the treatment of tuberculosis. This disease, which kills some 3m people a year, is difficult
Britain won its three-year battle to end a worldwide ban on its beef when the European Commission ruled that it could resume overseas sales on August 1. The decision ends an embargo which has cost
In North America where the use of GM seeds is more widespread, Monsanto is battling an altogether different threat: how to prevent farmers from obtaining its patented seeds illegally. The company
De Beers, the international diamond company, has joined the campaign by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to rid the world of polio by the end of 2000- the first such alliance between the United
The European Commission warned it would take France to court for failing to respect European Union laws over licensing genetically modified products. It is sending France a "reasoned opinion", a
