Top stories from 22 December update:

Trade/WTO:

• TWN REPORT: The situation at the WTO a year since Seattle
• Broad-based round or correcting imbalances?
• Differing WTO, UNCTAD perceptions on use of anti-dumping, countervailing measures
• Services talks advancing to negotiations
• India moots GATS guidelines on visas, work permits
• Latin-Asian elements for GATS negotiating guidelines
• Lamy claims progress towards meeting Third World concerns
• Anti-WTO campaign to centre on services
• A year after Seattle, no progress at WTO
• Developing countries, the WTO, and a New Round
• A year after Seattle, the WTO Bourbons have learnt nothing
• World trade grew, despite WTO Seattle debacle
• General Council chair to have further consultations on implementation
• Mountain of labour produces a dead mouse
• Recent Event: Joint NGO statement on the review of Art.27.3b of the TRIPS agreement
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Biotechnology/Access

• Best practice in the design of GM crops
• Terminator recombinase does scramble genomes
• UK GM field trials contain 'terminator' crops
• TWN Information Service on Biosafety

Other news

• Europe: A summit plagued by conflicts of interest
• Despite reforms, per capita incomes grew slower in South
• Extreme poverty declined only slightly
• Upbeat projections laced with uncertainty
• Africa AIDS conference ends with broad consensus
• PHA 2000: World Bank's health policies hurting nations, say critics
• Yes to financing Y2K problem, no to AIDS in Africa
• PHA 2000: Time to put UN system back on track, activists say
• PHA 2000: Activists want health on top of agenda
• New Frontiers No.6