Five years ago, Mar tin Williams, who leads ecological tours, saw hundreds of foreign visitors taking organized tours around Hong Kong's little

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More than 130 Republican and Democratic members of Congress have asked President George W. Bush to persuade the World Trade Organization to delay the phase-out of a global quota system on textiles

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So many pharmaceutical companies in Asia are racing to produce anti-HIV drugs that a leading AIDS organisation is sounding an alarm that widespread misuse could create future epidemics from

RWE Thames Water, the world's third-biggest water supply company, has withdrawn from a water treatment project in Shanghai after the government changed rules on the rate of return for such

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Some rabbis say that New York city tap water

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The World Health Oranizaton, resisting pressure from sugar-producing nations, has approved a strategy to fight obesity that urges limits on sugar and salt, among other sensible suggestions. A panel