Brussels, 03/03/2008 (Agence Europe) - The EU and the USA formally requested the opening of consultations in the WTO, on Monday 3 March, on the controls of financial information provided by foreign press agencies in China. Brussels and Washington accuse Beijing of banning foreign press agencies from selling their information directly to the Chinese media. In September 2006, Beijing reaffirmed the monopoly held by the official agency Xinhua for the distribution and publication of economic and...