Top stories from 4th December update:

Trade/WTO:

• APEC agrees new round in 2001, agenda first says Malaysia
• Technology, trade and development
• Free trade and free capital flows can't co-exist
• EC seeks WTO sanctions against US over FSC regime
• Cairns group proposals for market access
• Ricupero for dialogue on oil, trade and development
• Appellate Body sets rules for NGO briefs in asbestos case
• No urgency for financial liberalisation, says study
• New avenues to protect traditional knowledge urged by experts
• Africa, India presentations on implementation
• Africa should insist on implementation solutions
• Recent Event: Joint NGO statement on the review of Art.27.3b of the TRIPS agreement
  Sign on here

Biotechnology

• Capacity-building in developing countries to facilitate the implementation of the Cartagena protocol on biosafety
• Xenotransplantation: How bad science and big business put the world at risk from viral pandemics
• Beyond bad science big business
• Seeing nature whole: World Goodwill Seminar
• Human genome - the biggest sellout in human history
• Uapproved biotech corn found in UK and Denmark
• Call for ban on import of US GM corn
• TWN Information Service on Biosafety

Other news

• Muted debate or silence on major issues of IMF role
• US: Passes bill opposing 'user fees' on basic healthcare, education