Full Coverage: Business

19.11.2007 YES (Youth Employment Systems) Fund – the Global Fund for Youth Entrepreneurship – has announced its ICT Business Plan Competition for year 2007-2008. Winners will be judged on the basis of most innovative ideas and business plans in India and Kenya.

17.11.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 17 (OneWorld) - A coalition of grassroots organizations will lead worldwide demonstrations against Wal-Mart and other so-called "big box" retail stores today.

15.11.2007 NEW YORK, Nov 14 (OneWorld) - A new study by an independent think tank names and shames the power companies responsible for high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the United States and abroad.

14.11.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 14 (OneWorld) - Environmentalists are calling for an international ban on bunker fuel, a particularly noxious petroleum product used to power most ocean-going cargo ships, including those responsible for massive spills this week in the Black Sea and San Francisco Bay.

14.11.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 13 (OneWorld) - An international rights advocacy group is demanding the world's tourism industry shed business practices that harm indigenous communities and their cultures.

07.11.2007 Susan Smith of the National Confectioners Association responds to OneWorld's article on fair trade chocolate for Halloween.

05.11.2007 The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) has launched a national program to address post-consumer plastic waste. People are being told to segregate the plastic from other garbage to make recycle collections easier and to stop dumping them on roadsides.