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...there was one lesson learned from the Asian Games held in Doha last December, it was this: the thousand seats allocated to matches of sepak takraw could have been doubled-maybe even tripled-and the crowds would have still filled them. Imagine the speed and precision of volleyball cut with the aerial kicks of soccer at its showiest-set in the intensely combative, close-quarters environment of an indoor court-and you have some idea why this Southeast Asian sport is so visually addictive. Sepak takraw looks like it was devised to a global broadcaster's order. But it originated...
...Takraw U.S. Open is expected to attract over 30 adult teams to a tournament held June 30 and July 1-up from just over 20 last year. But North Americans are not the only ones interested: many European countries have national sides, and fans, too (interest rose after the Doha matches were broadcast on the Eurosport satellite and cable network). There are Brazilian, Sudanese, Chinese, Iranian and Nepalese teams. A professional league has emerged in South Korea. In Japan, more than 50 teams compete in a national championship (up from the original six in 1989). And earlier this month...
...peace of Europe has often been underestimated. I think the ability of Europe to bring in the countries of Eastern Europe into the European Union is something that will reap great rewards in the future. I'd like to see Europe and America coming together to make the Doha trade talks work. I'm pressing for Europe and America to make proposals that would allow Brazil, India, the developing countries to come behind a trade deal that I believe we could agree on by the summer. That would be a practical example of how Europe and America, despite...
That sense of foreboding was most obvious in talks on whether the Doha Round of trade liberalization can be concluded before President Bush's "fasttrack" authority to do trade deals expires on June 30. (After that, any deal would be nibbled to death by powerful interest groups in Congress.) Trade ministers met and remet on the margins of Davos, chivvied into shape by the indefatigable Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization. At the end of the week, Susan Schwab, the U.S. Trade Representative, talked optimistically about the chances of a deal. "There's been a real step...
...ambitious five years ago when it launched the Doha Round? The world trade system is growing and changing at an incredible pace. The WTO and the current machinery for the Doha Round can't keep pace. But it can be adapted and put back on track. I believe a deal is doable, and that it can be done within the narrow time frame that we have ahead...