Word: doha
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...slumping and the U.S. in need of poorer countries as partners in the war against terrorism. Right now there is nothing more important on the economic agenda than securing a new round of measures to reduce trade barriers. Trade ministers have just met in the Persian Gulf city of Doha, Qatar, to work out the outlines of such a round. They need to move fast: the World Trade Organization estimates that in 2001 the growth in the volume of world trade in goods will be just 2%, compared with...
...Increasing the tilt toward a regional FTA is the malaise in the World Trade Organization, where the Doha Round of talks, aimed at getting rich economies to lower barriers to poor nations' exports, has been in gridlock for years. The APEC leaders are expected to issue a statement urging a breakthrough, but they did that last year and the year before that to no avail. And if the Doha talks fail, says economist Edwards, "it becomes all the more important that this region have the widest free-trade agreement possible." Downer, however, sees that as a very remote prospect...
...Food aid was a sticking point at the 2001 Doha trade talks, amid complaints that the U.S.'s insistence that its food aid be grown at home amounts to a subsidy. Many European NGOs argue that this policy, coupled with the U.S. law that 75% of food aid be carried by U.S. ships, means food often arrives too late, floods local markets and damages indigenous farming...
...game's expansion is considered good news in Malaysia and Thailand where, two years ago, the government-funded International Takraw Academy was set up in Bangkok to train both local and overseas players, coaches and administrators. The Thais and Malays are historic rivals and dominate international competitions (at Doha, the Thai team took home four golds and a silver; Malaysia left with two silvers and a bronze); both claim the game as their own, and even split the sport's name between them, with sepak meaning kick in Malay and takraw meaning ball in Thai...
...certainly hoping to. Teams like Burma, where the traditional sport of chinlone requires much of the same skills as sepak takraw, and Indonesia, which has brought in top Thai coach Somkiet Sungsatitanon, will need to be taken seriously in coming years (Burma won three bronzes and a silver at Doha; Indonesia came out with three bronzes). And yet Sungsatitanon is under no illusions about the scale of the challenge before him. "If he were to play Thailand now, he'd be too intimidated," he says at the courtside, pointing to 16-year-old server Dani Slamat, one of Indonesia...