Sandal act

Winds of change in the scented wood

Prized tag

Blood that infuses new hope

Indian company gets green light to market umbilical cord blood, which contains stem cells

Greens see red

Japan

SOUTH AFRICA

ASSESSING GAS RESERVES

JAPAN

Follow Up

A fish called subsidy

Promotes inequality between fishers and hampers sustainable development

Sickly sweet business

Chemical taint spells doom for jaggery business in western UP

Tariff row

WTO invalidates US duty on steel imports

A 17th century inspiration

The US' outlook on patents

Remarkably clean

Port cities set up by Dutch colonists had ingenuous drainage systems

Shelved!

Sale of African ivory stocks

Marooned!

Island states feel isolated

In custody

E-choupal in legal thresher

Tamed for good

CITES ban forces India to hasten formulation of legislation to protect endangered species

ONLINE

Sri Lanka's edible oil units shut production

Sri Lanka floods Indian market with vanaspati

Wheat and chaff

Grain import policy quixotic, lacks logic

Aiding self

Book>> AID and Other Dirty Business by Giles Bolton Ebury Press 2008

US for higher standards in trade deal, India resists

‘Unhappy’ India might not block WTO protocol

But wants talks on food security to progress at the same pace as trade facilitation

China biggest polluter, says Dutch study