Trade : Time for WTO to take up overdue review of DSU (PRIV)
(Chakravarthi Raghavan, Geneva)
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) and its Multilateral Trading System (MTS) is facing an existential th reat, and unless this is taken up and resolved at the highest political decision- making levels of the WTO membership, the WTO system will atrophy and wither away.

Mozambique : "The first city devastated by climate change" tries to rebuild (PRIV)
(IPS, Maputo)
The city of Dondo, about 30 kilometres from Beira, central Mozambique, didn't escape the strong winds of Cyclone I dai.

Opinion : Ambitions are affordable for Asia and the Pacific (PRIV)
(IPS, Bangkok)
Three years of implementation of the transformative 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmen t in Asia and the Pacific shows the region has some catching up to do.

Opinion : Smart cities hold key to sustainable development (PRIV)
(IPS, Bangkok)
Asia and the Pacific's phenomenal development has been a story of rapid urbanization.