Nikkei (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Govt Picks Windsor Hotel Toya's Nakamura As Chief G-8 Summit ChefSAPPORO, Hokkaido Pref. (Kyodo)--The Foreign Ministry has selected Katsuhiro Nakamura, the executive chef of the Windsor Hotel Toya, the venue for July's Group of Eight summit, as chief chef for the summit tasked with supervising the preparation of cuisine for government leaders, ministry officials said Saturday.
Daniel W. Drezner (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
From today's Financial Times: Dan Price, the international economics official at the White House National Security Council, said the Group of Eight rich countries must lead by example. Mr Price, one of the key officials preparing for the July G8 summit in Japan, told the Financial Times that the group should issue a strong . . . statement on open investment and trade policies. This should be aimed...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
The annual trade union statement to the G-8 was posted today at- http://www.tuac.org/e-docs/00/00/02/3F/document_news.phtml I think its a pretty good analysis of the economic conjuncture, and the needed policy response. The Executive Summary is pasted below: 1. The crucial issues on the G8 Summit agenda — climate change, development and Africa — remain central for the Global Labour movement which insists...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
JAPAN: Hopes that Yasou Fukuda would heal his party's fortunes are fading fast, writes David McNeill in Tokyo
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
The European Commission will push members of the Group of Eight industrialized countries to equal the European Union's commitment to fighting global warming when the G8 summit opens in July in the... Read more ...
News1130 - All News Radio (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Four students from Richmond Secondary School have won a national competition to travel to this year's G-8 Summit in Japan. They'll be attending the UNICEF 'Junior 8 Summit' in July. The Richmond Secondary ...
Trans-Pacific Radio (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
In this edition of Seijigiri, co-hosts Garrett DeOrio and Ken Worsley begin by noting that Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has just returned from a visit to Russia, where he announced over the weekend that he has no intention to reshuffle his Cabinet before the G-8 summit in July. With this show being recorded on Tuesday the [...]
baithak (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
India and China have been wary about joining an expanded G8 owing to fears of being coaxed and cajoled into making unfair concessions on the Doha Development Round or on carbon emission caps. Both countries attended the 2007 G8 Summit in Germany as "outreach countries" but forthrightly rejected the deal announced at this meeting for the US to abide by environmental targets conditional upon New Delhi...
ONE (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Yesterday, World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick released a statement about Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda’s call to put the world hunger crisis on the agenda for the July G8 meeting. “I welcome Prime Minister Fukuda’s intention to put the food crisis firmly on the agenda of the G8 summit in Japan in July, and his [...]
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
KYOTO — This year's Group of Eight summit in Toyako, Hokkaido, could end up a failure unless Japan demonstrates strong leadership and the political will to forge agreements among the members on... Read more ...
Christian Today (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday urged countries across the globe to take action to dampen food price inflation adding that the issue would be raised at the next Group of Eight G8 summit
2point6billion.com (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Emerging countries India, China, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa - the outreach countries of the G8 met in Beijing yesterday ahead of the G8 summit to be held in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido in July. The outreach countries, also permanent invitees to the G8 are meeting to discuss multilateral trade and climate change issues. The [...]
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
You've probably heard about July's G8 Summit in Toyako, in my home prefecture of Hokkaido. In case you're unfamiliar with the event, here's a primer from the Foreign Affairs Ministry: You've probably heard about July's G8 Summit in Toyako, in my home prefecture of Hokkaido. In case you're... Read the full story.
OTB News (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Food prices will be on the agenda of heads of state in July for the first time in almost 30 years, amid mounting concerns about the social, political and economic impact Share This
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Food prices will be on the agenda of heads of state in July for the first time in almost 30 years, amid mounting concerns about the social, political and economic impact
