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25-Apr-2014 VDB Loi
A practical look at the 2013 Myanmar-Japan bilateral investment treaty
On 25 December 2013, Japan and Myanmar signed their first bilateral investment treaty. -
25-Apr-2014 Prensa Latina
Protest likely on April 28, says Colombian farmer leader
Colombian farmer leader César Pachón, a representative of the group Dignidad Papera, said that the movement may take to the roads to protest on April 20 against the delay in goverment compliance with agreements with the sector. -
24-Apr-2014 Equal Times
Colombia: Where dockers sell their paycheques for loans
The conditions of Buenaventura’s longshore workers, and the harsh reprisals against them for trying to form unions, dramatically illustrate the failure of Colombia’s Labor Action Plan. -
24-Apr-2014 CAP
CAP calls on PM to withdraw from TPPA during Obama’s visit or at least not to make any concessions to the US President
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) has called on the Malaysian government to inform the United States President that Malaysia will be withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement when Mr. Barack Obama visits Malaysia later this week. -
24-Apr-2014 Via Campesina
“Sunflower revolution” in Taiwan : STOP police brutality, NO to free trade agreements NOW!
Taiwan Rural Front and Taiwan Farmers Union launch an emergency appeal for international solidarity against current administration’s rush for cross-strait free trade agreement and excessive use of police force. -
24-Apr-2014 CNA
Official denies ’black-box’ operation in China pact negotiations
No "black-box" operations were involved in negotiations over the trade-in-services agreement with China, a Taiwanese official told foreign officials Wednesday during a briefing on the controversial cross-strait pact. -
24-Apr-2014 Gene Ethics
Don’t sue our governments for GM-free crops and food labels!
Australian PM Abbott’s trade deals with Korea, Japan and 12 other Pacific rim countries may give foreign companies the right to sue our governments for claimed losses over GM-free zones. A Greens Bill now in the Senate seeks to stop corporate predators having this right in all future treaties. -
23-Apr-2014
India-European Union FTA talks to resume after new government: French Ambassador Francois Richier
Negotiations between India and the European Union for the free trade agreement (FTA) are expected to start after the new government assumes office, French Ambassador Francois Richier said today. -
23-Apr-2014
US backs Taiwan’s TPP bid, unsure if China a factor: AIT
The US yesterday reiterated its support for Taiwan’s bid to join negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), saying it welcomed the nation’s interest in the proposed regional trade bloc. -
23-Apr-2014
Business groups urge FTA with EU
A trade pact between the Philippines and the European Union (EU) should be signed before 2016, businessmen yesterday said, else the country risk being left behind by Southeast Asian neighbors that are negotiating similar agreements. -
23-Apr-2014 Press TV
Ghana’s EPAs dilemma: to sign or not to sign?
President John Mahama is facing fierce resistance from academics, trades unionists and manufacturers associations who warn that Ghana could be opening itself up to a neo-colonial invasion from European products. -
23-Apr-2014 Graphic Business
EPA debate causes stir
Members of the Association of Ghana Industries are divided over whether government should join other West African states to sign onto the Economic Partnership Agreement. -
23-Apr-2014 In defence of marxism
Imperialism and the new free trade deals
Far from being a means to open up the world to a further intensification of trade, TPP and TTIP will carve up the world into two or more power blocs waging economic war with one another. -
23-Apr-2014 NZ Herald
Aussie trade deals hold risks for NZ
It is easy to mock aspects of Australia’s recently completed agreements. But the problem for New Zealand’s trade negotiators is that these pragmatic deals have the potential to cause trade disruption for our own agricultural producers, writes Fran O’Sullivan. -
23-Apr-2014 ABS-CBN
European businessmen back moves to get closer to PH-EU FTA
European businessmen back the government’s plan to conclude the scoping for the free trade agreement between the European Union and the Philippines by the end of the year . -
23-Apr-2014 FIDH
EU-Vietnam FTA: GUE, Greens, and civil society obtain partial but important victory for human rights
A resolution adopted by the European Parliament on 17 April 2014 recommended the European Commission address key human rights concerns during FTA negotiations with Vietnam. -
23-Apr-2014 InterAksyon
Clash mars PH launch of internationally coordinated protests vs Obama Asia trip
Bayan is coordinating with various anti-bases and anti-globalization groups in Japan, South Korea and the United States for a series of protests against the US pivot and the TPPA. -
22-Apr-2014 Al Jazeera
World Bank tribunal threatens El Salvador’s development
Last week more than 300 international and national civil society organizations wrote to the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, during its biannual meeting in Washington, denouncing the bank’s involvement in the case of Pac Rim Cayman LLC v. El Salvador. -
22-Apr-2014 CNA
All FTA talks shelved over service pact protests: Taiwan minister
All free trade negotiations with Taiwan planned for this year have been shelved by “other countries” because of unrest over the services pact with China, Taiwan’s Economics Minister said Monday, though he refused to name any specific countries. -
21-Apr-2014 Graphic Online
Revise EPA before signing – Trade minister
Ghanian stakeholders at a public forum on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) have called for urgent steps to revise aspects of the agreement before it is signed.