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Bird flu situation around the world improving: UN
AFP, United Nations
Although bird flu remains entrenched in Bangladesh. Egypt. India. Indonesia and Vietnam, the situation is improving in die rest of the world due to measures taken by governments, the UN coordinator for the disease said Tuesday.
"If we look at the rest of the world, I can continue to report that the situation is really improving," David Nabarro told reporters here.
"Countries generally have invested massively in improving the functioning of their veterinary services and also the biosecurity around which poultry are reared has generally improved."
"It doesn't mean that we can say diet the situation globally is completely under control ... buf it does mean that in the rest of the world, diere is a great deal of vigilance and action under way, "he added.
Nabarro however warned diat the world community had to remain on high alert for die possible mutation of the virus into one communicable between humans.
He highlighted intensive action by South Korea and Britain to bring outbreaks under control, as well as financial sector exercises in Australia and the United States to prepare for the impact of potential avian influenza crises.
OECD ministers agree to make internet safer, more widely used AFP, Seoul
Ministers and officials from leading industrial nations agreed Wednesday to make the Internet safer and more accessible, to strengdien its role as a driving force in the global economy.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) ministerial meeting adopted a "Seoul declaration" after a two-day forum on the future of the Internet economy.
"We agree that our challenges are...to expand Internet access and use worldwide... (and) ensure the protection of personal information in the online environment," it said.
"We declare that, to contribute to the development of the Internet economy, we will...strengthen confidence and security."
The declaration cites the need to strengthen security, reduce malicious activity online and protect personal data as well as privacy’.
It also promises to use the medium to address challenges such as global warming, declaring: "We will work to use the tools of the Internet economy to address global challenges, such as climate change."
Japan, China strike landmark gas-sharing deal
AFP, Tokyo
Japan said Wednesday it had struck a landmark deal with China to jointly develop a gas field in the East China Sea, resolving a spat that has been a thorn in ties between the two major energy importers.
The deal could pave the way for further cooperation between Asia's two largest economies, which have been increasingly competing around the world for badly needed oil and gas resources.
But the two sides continue to dispute other gas fields in the energy rich East China Sea and, in a sign that the deal is controversial, Chinese nationalists held a rare protest Wednesday in Beijing outside the Japanese embassy.
Japan's private sector will take part in China's ongoing development of the Chunxiao gas field, which Japan calls Shirakaba, a Japanese foreign ministry statement said.
Vietnam footwear makers oppose EU plan for higher tariffs
AFP, Hanoi
Vietnam's footwear makers said Tuesday an EU plan to scrap their preferential market access would cost them over 100 million dollars and harm workers already suffering from double-digit inflation.
Industry group the Vietnam Leather and Footwear Association (Lefaso) asked the European Union to reconsider a plan announced last week to end the granting of lower than usual tariffs forVietnamese-made products.
The sector would suffer "a huge impact" if Vietnam was removed from the list of benefiting countries under the EU's Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), said Lefaso deputy chairwoman NguyenThiTong.
"Since the start of the year, footwear enterprises in Vietnam have already suffered the pressure of high prices for input materials," she told AFP. "The lives of workers have also become difficult due to high inflation.”