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The ghost of ITO haunts WTO

The Eleventh Ministerial Conference (MC11) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Buenos Aires, Argentina (December 10-13, 2017) ended in a chaos. It failed to produce even the most customary document - a ministerial declaration that normally includes references to the centrality of the global trading system and to trade...

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Suu Kyi's looming day of reckoning

"It has gone far beyond a mere humanitarian crisis. This, the deliberate killing of a specific ethnic group, is genocide''. - The Sydney Morning Herald (Editorial, December 18, 2017)The United Nations Human Rights (UNHR) chief Zeid Raad Al Hussein has now raised the possibility of Myanmar's supreme leader Aung San...

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