The Government has decided to accede to the Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property and its facilitation treaty, the Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT). This is expected to provide a ...

Whether we like it or not, globalisation is here to stay. Despite the World Trade Organization's (WTO) slow crawl, companies and consumers will increasingly and inexorably cross their own borders to ...

The 2004 Sri Lanka Supreme Court judgment on a controversial Water Services Reform Bill opened the way for civil society to engage with the water authorities have developed a new National Water Policy ...

New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the health risks from the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), found in many plastic and children's products, highlights the ...

An assessment of the current political, ecological and economic challenges facing family forests.

OAK BROOK, IL - McDonald's Corporation today issued its first worldwide Social Responsibility Report. "Social responsibility is not a project or a program. Acting responsibly is the way McDonald's ...

Slides of a presentation for the panel "Fair Trade and Youth Movements".

From the economic point of view, globalization is the increasing intensification and interconnectivity of flows of goods, services, capital and people between countries and regions in all parts of the ...

Ethical decisions are among the most difficult and most important decisions that we face. There is no easy way to make these decisions or feel certain that we have made the right decision. We are not ...

Suggested protocol for beginning a woodland ginseng growing operation as well as a revised Visual Site Assessment from Cornell Cooperative Extension.

Michael Andreas, 49, on leave as executive vice president of ADM; Terrance Wilson, 60, retired head of ADM's corn-processing unit; and former ADM biochemist Mark Whitacre, 41 have been convicted by a ...

TOKYO, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Concerns are growing among Japanese importers over talk that a cargo of U.S. corn was rejected because it contained StarLink, a bio-engineered variety not approved for human ...