Top stories from 29 March update:

Trade/WTO:

• SPECIAL REPORT: Withstanding pressures for a new round, a major challenge for the South
• US, Canada both get 10 months to implement rulings
• Panel rules against US in Japan steel dumping dispute
• WTO agriculture liberalisation may hurt small-scale farmers
• EU Ministers approve scaled-down LDC market access package
• EU agrees to LDC market access, transition for bananas, rice and sugar
• No new round before settling implementation issues, says Mahathir
• No half-diagnoses, no half-measures, urges Dutch minister
• US blocks UNCTAD work on anti-dumping, traditional knowledge
• FDI, TNC-spread doesn't necessarily lead to technology transfer
• Developing countries turn down guidelines for GATS talks
• Statement: Joint NGO statement on the review of Art.27.3b of the TRIPS agreement [version francais]
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Biotechnology

• The unnecessary evil of 'therapeutic' human cloning
• The new thought police - Suppression of dissent in science
• Allergic reactions trigger a sober look at biotech foods
• Transgenics lose ground, but refuse to give up
• TWN Information Service on Biosafety

Other news

• UN: To upgrade meeting on financing for development
• Turkey tests IMF's crisis handling skills
• Mad cows and Englishmen: The globalisation of disease
• Kenya: NGOs seek to import generic drugs from India
• Bush won't fight price break on AIDS treatment
• Housing rights approach to tackle homelessness advocated
• Annan calls for reallocation of budgets to tackle AIDS
• New TWN Features posted