Page 5 - Third World Network News Today

Kuala Lumpur: The government will utilise data collected from 217 departments and agencies for government-related programmes, including targeted subsidies, to rectify the low registration rate with the Central Database Hub (Padu), says communications minister Fahmi Fadzil.

The four-day meeting of trade ministers of the 164-member global trade rule-making body WTO begins on February 26 at Abu Dhabi, UAE. MC is the highest decision-making body of the WTO. The experts also said that this is a proposal of a group of countries, which is called a plurilateral agreement or joint statement initiative, which is not accepted by a number of nations including India and South Africa.

The National Fishworkers Forum, in a letter to the Union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal, has also appealed to the Centre to resist at the upcoming World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations any proposals to eliminate subsidies for small and traditional fishworkers

Exclusive for Subscribers from Monday to Friday: Why T N Godavarman judgment and Forest (Conservation) Act 2023 are relevant to the UPSC Exam? What significance do topics like subsidy for fisheries in India, biennial Multilateral Naval Exercise (Milan) and Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH) have for both the preliminary and main exams? You can learn more by reading the Indian Express UPSC Key for February 21, 2024.

The ethanol industry is pushing back on a California proposal to require sustainability requirements for biofuel feedstocks.

Commerce Ministry officials maintain that India will push against any form of curbs on its subsidies to poor fishermen at the WTO and also seek a moratorium on fishing subsidies from advanced countries including the US and EU during the upcoming inter-ministerial.

PETALING JAYA: With just over 10% of Malaysians registered with the Central Database Hub (Padu) since its launch on Jan 2, an expert says the government’s biggest hurdle is dealing with public scepticism.

This assumes special significance as farmers are holding yet again protests in the national capital seeking a law to guarantee minimum support price (MSP) for all crops. Several farmers groups have long held the opinion that India should walk out of WTO.

Exclusive for Subscribers from Monday to Friday: Why $95.34 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are relevant to the UPSC Exam? What significance do topics like Article 5 of NATO’s founding treaty, India and UAE and WTO and the Ministerial Conference have for both the preliminary and main exams? You can learn more by reading the Indian Express UPSC Key for February 14, 2024.

By Tom Athanasiou | - This essay was originally published in Foreign Policy in Focus Just before the recent climate …