GLOBAL TRENDS SERIES BY MARTIN KHOR

• Exciting times ahead in 2004
• Goodbye to 2003, Year of the pre-emptive strike
• Many ways to 'Drop' an issue
• UN summit adopts principles for the information age
• WTO wrangle over the "Singapore Issues"
• Social democrats launch a "Progressive alliance"
• Making sense of the new world turmoil
• Who's Guilty of Cronyism now?
• European and Brazil trade chiefs have a Halloween Day debate on WTO
• UN highlights developing countries' financial woes
• Debate on trade shifts to UN agency
• Post-Cancun talks resume at WTO