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Thai livestock industry opposes TPP agreement
17-Feb-2016 Thai PBS
The Swine Raisers Association of Thailand and other livestock groups yesterday protested against the country’s move to enter the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement claiming that doing so would bring enormous damages to Thailand’s livestock industry.
TPP may bankrupt Indonesia, activists say
16-Feb-2016 The Jakarta Post
Indonesia could fall into bankruptcy if the biggest market in Southeast Asia join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would allow investors to sue the government.
Thailand’s challenges on TPP framework
16-Feb-2016 The Nation
Thailand has decided to join the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). That will be the key message Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will deliver to President Barack Obama at the special Asean-US meeting.
Obama to push trade agenda at summit with Southeast Asian nations
15-Feb-2016 The Japan Times
A summit between Southeast Asian leaders and President Barack Obama is unlikely to deliver any big economic prizes, but will allow the American side to press the advantages of joining a Pacific trade pact that doesn’t include China.
The TPPA and Waitangi Day
12-Feb-2016 The Gisborne Herald
Free trade cannot be at the expense of a government’s domestic obligations, for example, its obligation to fulfil Treaty rights of Maori.
Argentina and the TPP: Opening up to the World and Falling into an Abyss
10-Feb-2016 Notas
At the dawn of the Bicentenary of Independence, Argentina has a president whose ideological and political inclination stresses the country’s need to “open itself up to the world”, a euphemism that refers to strengthening trade and financial dependence on the international economic centres of the North: the United States and the European Union.
Medicines Without Frontiers: the TPP – a barrier to access to life saving generic medicines
10-Feb-2016 La Nación
"The battle to prevent this trade agreement from being implemented is far from over", asserts the humanitarian organization, joining the rejection that the treaty Chile signed in New Zealand arouses.
Forget about joining TPP
9-Feb-2016 The Bangkok Post
Indigenous Maori people angry about the so-called "free trade" treaty asked Mr Key to refrain from bragging about the TPP at Waitangi Day ceremonies.
The predators behind the TPP
8-Feb-2016 The Japan Times
Powerful corporations have been allowed to swallow the state; they have created a “predator state,” which they naturally exploit for their own expansion.
TPP Agreement bad for democracy, rights, public services and health
8-Feb-2016 ITUC
The ITUC has called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) a major setback for employment and workers’ rights prospects, and signaled the determination of unions in TPP countries to oppose it.
Les traités de libre-échange sont des armes de destruction massive
8-Feb-2016 L’Observatoire des multinationales
De la décolonisation au Tafta
Voice of protest returns to Waitangi shores
5-Feb-2016 Maori TV
The voice of protest made its way along the Bay of Islands to its traditional home on the shores of Waitangi, to Te Tii Marae. At the centre of the protest was the TPP agreement.
Trans-Pacific Partnership being sold with bogus economic models
5-Feb-2016 Huffington Post
The TPP is a lousy deal on the pure economics, which is why it is currently being sold to the American people and Congress using bogus economic analysis.
MSF open letter to ASEAN governments: Don’t trade away health
5-Feb-2016 MSF
MSF urges all ASEAN member states to lead an effort to reject the ratification and implementation of the TPP and the expansion of its negative consequences for public health in the whole region.
As Pacific trade deal is signed pharma holds key to US ratification
5-Feb-2016 FT
One immediate obstacle to getting the Trans-Pacific Partnership through US Congress lives in Jan Kemper’s laboratory an hour’s drive from the White House.
Trade officials sign the TPP but it’s still up to lawmakers to reject it
4-Feb-2016 Electronic Frontier Foundation
While trade leaders tout the signature of the agreement today, the TPP continues to attract international criticism.
Controversial TPP pact signed amid New Zealand protests
4-Feb-2016 Al Jazeera
One of the biggest and most controversial trade deals in history was signed on Thursday by ministers from the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas, as hundreds of protesters hit the streets of Auckland to denounce it.
UN expert urges Pacific Rim countries not to sign the TPP without committing to human rights and development
3-Feb-2016 OHCHR
UN human rights expert called on Governments not to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) without reaffirming their human rights treaty obligations and their recent pledges to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
The future of rice farming in Japan
2-Feb-2016 The Japan Times
There is growing concern among Japanese farmers that the country’s rice-producing capabilities are diminishing in the face of international trade pacts such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
For Canadian innovators, will TPP mean protection – or colonialism?
1-Feb-2016 The Globe and Mail
Despite Canada’s 14 new free-trade deals, Canada posted record trade deficits and shrinking exports throughout 2015 as prices for tangible commodities fell.