The flood of drug sales from Canadian pharmacies to US consumers raises many ethical, political, and trade questions. In response, American and Canadian health authorities have begun discussions on the flow of price-controlled drugs into the US. This growing cross-border business illuminates many...
US regulators of medicine are starting discussions with their Canadian counterparts on the increasingly sensitive subject of Canadian internet pharmacies selling price-controlled drugs to US residents.
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President Bush's ultimatum to Palestinian leadership that it must democratize raises an interesting quesion: “What if the United States were as serious about saving the Arabs from corrupt autocrats and radical Islam as it once was about saving the world from communism?” If the US were to...
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The US proposal to phase out tariffs on industrial goods is meeting with opposition from some members of the World Trade Organization. Many agree with a South Asian trade envoy who criticized the plan’s 'glaring absence of special flexibilities for developing countries with different levels...
The ambitious proposal by the US to eliminate all import tariffs on industrial products by 2015 yesterday received a cautious response from developing countries at the World Trade Organization. However, some of them...
Argentina has preceded its South American neighbors in one of the worst financial crises the continent has ever seen. Its once-prosperous inhabitants are scrounging for food and collecting recyclables to make a living, and Argentina is poised to become the next Africa, Nicholas Kristof writes....
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Complicated and tenuous as America's hold on Iraq is, the more urgent crisis is in Israel and Palestine, this opinion piece in The Guardian contends. The cease-fire America has worked so hard to produce and which had created a period of tentative peace between Palestinian factions and the...
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Coming on the heels of massive street protests, two of Hong Kong's top appointed officials resigned yesterday. The Security Secretary and the Financial Secretary said they were leaving office as soon as possible. Both officials were targets of angry protests over a proposed sedition law that...
TWO unpopular ministers resigned within hours of each other yesterday, in a move that analysts say could take some of the heat off beleaguered Chief Executive Tung Chee Hwa's administration - for now....
最近一段时间巴克莱银行成为了国际各大媒体“竞相喊打”的“过街老鼠”，为何？原因在于有消息称，巴克莱银行的交易员多次低报其资金拆入利率，借以操纵伦敦银行同业拆借利率（LIBOR）。这一指标利率遭到扭曲之后，造成了国际金融市场上利率互换、利率期货、按揭债券、银行贷款甚至垃圾债券等在定价方面被扭曲。在基数以百万亿美元计（相比之下，2011年美国和中国的GDP总额不过15万亿和7.3万亿美元）的全球利率互换市场，这样的利率操纵可为交易者带来巨额的利益转换。在北大经济学院的欧阳良宜看来，各大银行显然有操纵LIBOR的利益动机，即，较低的LIBOR水平可以帮助这些银行拉低融资水平，...
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约有三分之二的非洲居民缺乏电力。由于亟需保障电力以帮助挣扎求存的经济走出困境，非洲国家必须选定一种能源，而且也没有耐心等待象太阳能这样的替代性能源出现。南非（South Africa）的发电量曾经多到足可与赞比亚（Zambia）、博茨瓦纳（Botswana）和津巴布韦（Zimbabwe）等邻国共享，但如今却陷于电力供应短缺的境地。BBC国际广播部的维拉•克瓦克菲（Vera Kwakofi）报道说：“目前，南非正在开发一种更小型的新一代核反应堆，希望它不仅能解决本国的电力短缺问题，而且也能够解决非洲其他国家的电力短缺问题”。纳米比亚（Namibia）也依赖南非的电力供给，...
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