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China urged to explore investment opportunities in COMESA
17-Jun-2010
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Secretary-General Sindiso Ngwenya on Tuesday urged China to enter into joint ventures with Africa’s largest regional trading and economic grouping to capitalize on the customs union that was launched last year.
BoI tasked to facilitate investment
16-Jun-2010
The Board of Investment (BoI) has been tasked to formulate Special Economic Zone Act (SEZA), update the existing Promotion and Protection of Investment Act 1976 and conclude Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT) and Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with other countries specially the United States.
Taiwan to seek investment pacts before FTAs: minister
8-Jun-2010
Minister of Economic Affairs Shih Yen-shiang said Monday that Taiwan will adopt a "building blocks" approach to promote free trade agreements (FTAs) with other countries, beginning with investment guarantee pacts.
S Korea, China, Japan trade ministers see investment pact in ’10
24-May-2010 Dow
Trade ministers of South Korea, China and Japan are targeting to conclude an investment agreement among the three countries this year in order to promote tripartite economic and trade cooperation, Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Sunday.
Australian tax could breach treaty with China
10-May-2010 Telegraph
Mining shares plunged last week after Kevin Rudd, Australia’s prime minister, proposed a 40pc tax on mining profits, arguing that Australia’s mining boom was benefiting shareholders based abroad
US inches a BIT closer to China
6-May-2010 Asia Times Online
The US-China Congressional Committee has released a study it commissioned in June 2009 for the purposes of investigating why the United States and China have not yet executed a bilateral investment treaty (BIT).
Pakistan, US to start BIT talks this month
3-May-2010 Dawn
Pakistan and the United States are scheduled to restart negotiations on Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) in the third week of May
Malaysia can become a gateway for Emirati investors, Deputy Governor Bank Negara Malaysia
26-Apr-2010
Dato’ Mohd Razif Deputy Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) said that Malaysia has ample investment opportunities in various fields and can become a gateway for Emirati investors to access Asian Markets, expressing his resolve to open joint ventures between Malaysia and United Arab Emirates to enhance economic and trade ties between them.
El Salvador’s misfortune in gold: Mining, murder, and corporate malfeasance
19-Apr-2010
The recent turmoil over the efforts of Pacific Rim, a Canadian corporation, to carry out a gold-mining project in El Salvador is a catalyst for reviving the deep-seated divisions that go back to the Central American country’s bloody civil war from 1980 to 1992.
The changing landscape of export credit agencies in the context of the global financial crisis
14-Apr-2010
New study by Kavaljit Singh on the structure and role of export credit agencies, an integral part of trade finance and investment relations
Japan, Papua New Guinea to start talks on bilateral investment treaty
30-Mar-2010 Kyodo News
Japan and Papua New Guinea agreed Monday to launch negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty, Japanese government officials said.
The global investment agenda - an OECD perspective
17-Mar-2010 OECD
According to the OECD, there are 3000 bilateral and regional investment agreements in existence today yet a reluctance to enforce investor-state arbitral awards. OECD wants to draw up a "Model Investment Treaty" to harmonise things.
Latin America faces 61% of ongoing mining cases at the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes
6-Mar-2010 NJGI
In the context of high global prices for natural resources, particularly gold and oil, Latin American governments seeking to increase the benefits of those resources for their own people are finding themselves increasingly targeted by investor lawsuits.
Syria, Turkey Discuss Economic & Investment Cooperation
25-Feb-2010
Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Otri and Turkish Minister of State for Economic Affairs Zafer Caglayan on Wednesday discussed means and ways of bolstering the standing cooperation between Syria and Turkey.
Canada pressing for investment protection pact
9-Feb-2010
Canada High Commissioner in India Mr Joseph Caron said his country is pressing for entering into a foreign investment protection treaty with ours.
Ecuador: Oxy’s demands for compensation unfounded
6-Feb-2010 EFE
The Ecuadorian government said Occidental Petroleum deserves no compensation for the cancellation of its massive oil concession in the Amazon region, arguing that the decision was taken after the U.S. company broke the law and its contractual obligations by handing over a stake in that project to a Canadian firm.
Chevron files motion to hold government of Ecuador accountable under international law
22-Jan-2010 SR Sentinel
Chevron has submitted a legal motion and supporting authorities to dismiss a lawsuit that was filed by the government of Ecuador in an attempt to block a Chevron arbitration claim made under international treaty la
Ecuadorians want Chevron held to account
19-Jan-2010 Courthouse News
Now, Texaco is asking a panel of United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, which works in cooperation with the World Trade Organization, to release it from environmental liability, the communities say.
Spanish firms launch ICSID dispute against Mexico over stalled toxic waste disposal project
13-Jan-2010 ITN
Spanish firms Abengoa, S.A. and COFIDES, S.A. have launched a claim with ICSID against Mexico over the stalled opening of a toxic waste disposal plant built by them in the municipality of Zimapán, approximately 200 kilometres north of Mexico City.
Ecuador seeks to block Chevron
7-Dec-2009 WSJ
The government of Ecuador asked a US court on Friday to intervene in its long-running environmental battle with oil giant Chevron Corp.