23-Nov-2009
SW Radio Africa
South Africa’s main agriculture and farming union has expressed concern about the bilateral investment treaty agreed with Zimbabwe, which is set to exclude South African owned farms that were expropriated by the Robert Mugabe regime during the chaotic land ’reform’ programme.
21-Aug-2009
World-Grain.com
US-based Corn Products International has been awarded damages of over $58m in a dispute with Mexico over violations of the North America Free Trade Agreement.
21-Aug-2009
Pillsbury Law
As with Western BITs, bilateral investment treaties between China and numerous Latin American countries potentially protect Chinese investors by authorizing them to bring legal claims related to their investments against the host country government directly and to settle those disputes in international arbitration, rather than in the domestic courts
3-Aug-2009
Economic Times
A team from Washington will visit New Delhi next week to discuss liberalisation of investment laws that had taken a back seat due to
elections in both the countries.
24-Jul-2009
Business Daily
Uganda on Thursday adopted a cautious stand as negotiations on a regional common market entered a sensitive phase in which experts sought to find the most appropriate deals on protection of foreign investments