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Nhan Dan Online - The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) will continue to build technical assistance programme to help boost development of the Hanoi Securities Trading Centre, affirmed Mr Larry Walther, USTDA general director.  

Global gross domestic product (GDP) growth this year is expected to register a slower rate of growth at 4.1% compared to 5% in 2007 with rising inflation resulting from food and fuel price hikes eroding growth performance, particularly of developing countries.  

As part of its ongoing commitment to the US-India Energy Dialogue, the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) Friday awarded a $370,000 technical assistance related grant to oil major Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL).  

InternetNZ (the Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) congratulates the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative for donating 500 low-cost laptop computers to the South Pacific island nation of Niue. It is part of a larger initiative in the Pacific and to developing countries globally.  

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- New screening methods and immunization shots are making it possible to control the number of cervical cancer cases in developing countries for the first time, researchers said in a Vaccine medical journal report.  

At the ICPD conference, it was estimated that it would cost US $18.5 billion annually by the year 2005 to meet the needs of developing countries. The international community pledged to share the costs, with donor nations pledging to provide one-third or $6.1 billion.  

The World Bank on Tuesday said more people are living in poverty in developing countries than previously thought as it adjusted the recognized yardstick for measuring global poverty to $1.25 a day from $1 a day.  

Washington - There are more poor people around the world than previously thought, the World Bank said Tuesday, following a major overhaul of its past estimates of global poverty. Following an upward adjustment of the cost of living in poorer countrie...  

The European Commission has proposed a special, €1 billion financing facility to help farmers in developing countries. The programme is designed to support countries hardest hit by rising food prices.  

Leaders of developing countries Indonesia, China, India and Brazil call for the resumption of negotiation of the Doha Round, stressing that the failure of the talks would bring poor impacts on developing nations, Indonesian state spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said on Monday. Indonesian President...  

Developing countries around the world should team up to try to jointly secure patents for essential drugs to allow them to produce original drugs by themselves instead using of the compulsory licensing mechanism to break patents on expensive drugs, former health minister Dr Mongkol Na Songkla said.  

A spectacular opening ceremony, well-organized events and hospitable Chinese citizens all made for a successful Games and aroused enthusiasm for the Olympics among other developing countries that hope to host the Games one day. "The Beijing Olympics is an achievement for the Chinese people," said...  

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New research published in The Lancet finds that much higher proportions of children with severe pneumonia are treated correctly if they are allowed to be treated at local, first-level facilities instead of hospitals.  

Delegates at a key United Nations climate conference made headway Friday on a plan to encourage developing countries to regulate carbon emissions by focusing on their largest industries.