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29-Aug-2011
Reuters
An umbrella group of activists opposed to a proposed U.S. trade deal with eight countries in the Asia Pacific region said Friday they aim to raise public awareness of its potential effects on jobs and the environment when negotiators meet next month in Chicago.
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29-Aug-2011
Colombian Reports
While the United States considers a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia, the human rights situation in the Magdalena Medio region of Colombia has deteriorated dramatically, culminating on the 17th of August with a massacre in the township of El Dorado.
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29-Aug-2011
Sunday Times
Sri Lanka has agreed to import its entire basmati rice quota of 6,000 tonnes from Pakistan under the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) through the private sector from 2012.
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29-Aug-2011
HealthDev.Net
The 10th International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP10) has been turned upside down completely
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29-Aug-2011
The Scavenger
An anti-Free Trade Agreement protest that took place outside an International Congress on AIDS in the Asia Pacific (ICAAP) in Busan, South Korea, on 27 August was violently attacked by police.
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29-Aug-2011
Hankyoreh
The United States government has made it official that products made at the Kaesong Industrial Complex in North Korea will not be classified as “made in Korea” according to the terms of the South Korea-US Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA).
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29-Aug-2011
This article is based on the author’s visit to Manipur and the observations expressed are gathered from the formal and informal interactions with people working on Indo-Myanmar issues from long time.
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28-Aug-2011
IPS
Critics of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) gathered in Washington to voice concerns over the US’s stronghold on intellectual property rights.
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26-Aug-2011
Voxy
Lobbyists for the alcohol industry are threatening to use New Zealand’s free trade agreements against government proposals to restrict products targetting young drinkers
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26-Aug-2011
Livemint
India has convinced both New Zealand and Australia not to include the subject in the ongoing negotiations
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26-Aug-2011
Yonhap
Years before the FTA, in Europe, wine grower associations and media emphasized the importance of the FTA and focused on how the new deal would increase sales. But nearly two months later, confusion still reigns.
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26-Aug-2011
Scoop
US policymakers would be wise to re-evaluate the TPA, carefully separating the pros from the cons.
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26-Aug-2011
Myjoyonline.com
A number of Civil Society Organisations in Ghana have painted a bleak picture about the Economic Partnership Agreement, warning the government will be consigning the economy to irretrievable doom, if it signs the pact with the EU.
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25-Aug-2011
The Conversation
Legislation requiring tobacco products to be in plain packaging was passed by Australia’s House of Representatives last night. This is the first such measure in the world to become law.
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24-Aug-2011
Republica
The government of Nepal has initiated preparation for trade talks with the country’s two crucial trade partners — India and the US.
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24-Aug-2011
PTI
Expressing concern over a large number of free trade agreements signed by India, industry body Ficci on Tuesday said it would make the country’s manufacturing sector "uncompetitive".
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24-Aug-2011
Bernama
South Korea, China and Japan will hold their sixth joint study meeting next week on the feasibility of a free trade agreement (FTA) among the three Northeast Asian countries, trade ministry said on Wednesday.
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23-Aug-2011
Imphal Free Press
Various social organizations held sit-in-protest against European Union-India free trade agreement at Zaphou in Chandel district (Manipur, India) today.
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22-Aug-2011
For over four years now, India has been negotiating a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) - the largest trade and investment deal the country has ever embarked on. As much as New Delhi expects to lure the European market and investments closer to India, the actual consequences for the country’s economy could be dire: the open up of public procurement, the deregulation of the banking, automobile, retail and mining industries plus the adverse impact the deal will have in small-scale farmers make of this FTA a counter-productive undertaking.
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22-Aug-2011
AP
In Vermont, Maine and other states, there’s growing concern that free trade agreements could undermine states’ authority in a host of areas, ranging from the regulation of groundwater extraction by bottled water companies, to negotiating lower prices for prescription drugs, to issuance of state approval for a takeover of an electric utility by a foreign-owned company.
