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Already a major force in the economy, worth over £52 billion a year, the digital and communication sectors are growing in significance as the country faces up to current financial and market challenges. Vital to underpinning global economic activity, they are critical to every business in our economy, acting both as a catalyst for creativity and allowing efficiency gains. And they have a major impact on our culture and quality of life.

The United States and China today concluded the second meeting of the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED). President Bush and President Hu established the Strategic Economic Dialogue in September 2006 as a focused and effective framework to address shared priorities and mutual concerns. For the meeting held May 22 and 23 in Washington, 17 U.S. Cabinet officials and agency heads joined Secretary Paulson for discussions with China's Vice Premier Wu Yi and a delegation of 15 ministers and representatives from a total of 21 Chinese government ministries and agencies.

NEW YORK, and WASHINGTON, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Martin Ficke, former Special Agent in Charge, New York, for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Office of Investigations is now available for interviews on a range of Homeland Security, regulatory and business-related topics.

Martin D. Ficke, the new Executive Director of Investigative Programs for SES Resources, has joined the team of former federal Senior Executive Service law enforcement officials at the corporate advisory firm, SES Resources and is immediately available for interviews on the following subjects:

When the owner of www.HusseinHanging.com started up his blog chronicling the trial and hanging process of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, little did he know what he would be getting himself into. Email threats, DDOS attacks, and violent commentary became somewhat of a common occurrence.

(Kyodo) _ Government officials from Japan and Hong Kong will meet Friday to discuss a Japanese request that the Chinese territory enhance protection of intellectual property rights, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said Wednesday.

Tokyo believes Hong Kong needs to undertake more relief measures for companies suffering from unauthorized use and registration of corporate or brand names, after it investigated the IPR protection system there based on a request from an association of Japanese electronics manufacturers.

by Bruce Schneier
Founder and CTO
Counterpane Internet Security, Inc.
schneier@counterpane.com
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by Muhammad Mahboob Ali -

THE rules of the game are stacked against developing countries, and the Uruguay Round (UR), which created the rules-based World Trade Organisation (WTO), has not changed the situation very much. Most of the protection for industry and agriculture in industrial countries was left intact. Part of the dissatisfaction with the WTO is the perception that the issues it addresses are those, which concern the developed countries, brushing aside those of interest to the developing world.

Representatives of 20 national intellectual property offices and 10 institutions promoting the competitiveness of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) participated on May 25-26, 2006 in the third annual WIPO Forum on Intellectual Property (IP) and SMEs for IP Offices of the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) and South Mediterranean Countries at the Geneva headquarters of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

A program is available at www.wipo.int/