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2/2/2004; 1:34:35 PM
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Friday, January 16, 2004 |
Cal State, Hayward Joins New Latin American Business Consortium California State University, Hayward is the US partner in a new consortium that will conduct trade missions, research projects and educational exchanges between four Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico - and the US.
The University, which offers graduate business degrees around the world, will join agencies its partner countries in the newly-created Chamber of International Business (CAMBRA), which was launched in Brazil last December. [CalTrade Report]
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Friday, January 16, 2004 at 15:00 JST
NAGOYA — The Federation of All Toyota Workers Unions said Friday it will seek no pay-scale increases beyond standard yearly hikes during this year's "shunto" annual spring labor-management wage talks.
This is the second straight year the federation has given up a unified demand for increases in the pay-scale. The federation organizes workers at Toyota Motor Corp, its subsidiaries and affiliated auto parts suppliers. (Kyodo News)
11:56:38 AM
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Creative Class War. Other countries are encroaching successfully on what has been, for almost two decades, the heartland of our economic success -- the creative economy. We can lay the blame at the feet of the Bush administration. [AlterNet]
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Europe's economic engine stalls Germany's economy - for so long the engine of EU economic growth - slipped into reverse for the first time since 1993, official figures published yesterday have shown.
Economic growth in Germany declined by 0.1 percent in 2003 after two years of flirting with recession. Germany remains close to the bottom of the EU economic league table, with only Portugal and the Netherlands registering slower growth.
[EUobserver: Economy and Euro]
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Child soldier use rises globally. The use of child soldiers in war has increased massively in some African countries, human rights groups say. The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers says in Ivory Coast, Liberia and the DR Congo recruitment of children increased massively in 2003. [BBC News | Africa | World Edition]
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US to fight EU sanction request. Washington vows to fight EU plans to impose trade sanctions if an illegal US trade law is not scrapped. At issue is the Byrd Amendment, under which US companies get part of the fines levied against rivals who sell products at artificially low prices. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) found that the payments were illegal. [BBC News | Business | World Edition]
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WTO warns US on trade policy. The World Trade Organisation warns that the growing trade deficit could give rise to protectionist pressures in the world's biggest economy. It criticised barriers to US market access through subsidies and tariffs which protect the agriculture, steel, textiles and clothing sectors. [BBC News | Business | World Edition]
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Janice Kimball
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