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  • 6-Jan-2009 GMA News
    Group files protest vs. poaching of Japanese tuna factory ships in RP
    A national federation of small fisherfolk organizations in the Philippines filed a diplomatic protest Tuesday at the Japanese Embassy against poaching by Japanese tuna factory ships in waters off Aurora province.
  • 6-Jan-2009 ITN
    Tribunal rejects Ecuador’s jurisdictional objections in dispute with Chevron
    A tribunal has determined that it holds jurisdiction to hear a claim brought by Chevron Corporation against Ecuador for alleged violations of the Ecuador-United States bilateral investment treaty (BIT).
  • 6-Jan-2009 Bernama
    EU expects solid response from ASEAN on FTA offers
    "With the economic slowdown creeping in, there is an urgency for concluding the EU-ASEAN FTA talks," the EU has said
  • 6-Jan-2009 AP
    SKorea’s opposition ends parliamentary occupation
    Opposition lawmakers ended their 12-day siege of South Korea’s parliament Tuesday after blocking — for now — a US free trade deal and other legislation.
  • 31-Dec-2008 GMANews
    Fishing group complains of ’gang rape’ of tuna in Aurora waters
    The fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) on Saturday decried the "gang rape" of the country’s tuna stocks by Japanese, South Korean, and Taiwanese companies poaching in the portions of Philippine Sea in Aurora province.
  • 31-Dec-2008 Korea Times
    Ruling party to railroad divisive bills
    Lawmakers of the governing party in Korea are expected to ratify the Korea-US free trade agreement (KORUS FTA) motion and railroad 85 contentious bills today after last-minute negotiations with the opposition failed as of midnight Tuesday.
  • 31-Dec-2008 Jakarta Post
    Indonesia delays free trade deals with Oz, NZ
    Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, has delayed signing a trade deal with Australia and New Zealand, due to be inked this month, until March next year, a senior official said Monday.
  • 31-Dec-2008 Forbes
    Russia, US amend trade agreement on pork, poultry
    The US government and Russia have amended their five-year bilateral poultry and pork trade agreement with protections that should limit disruptions to trade, the US Trade Representative said.
  • 30-Dec-2008 Bernama
    EU set to further enhance ties with M’sia, says Ambassador
    The next round of negotiations on the EU-Asean free trade agreement (FTA) will take place in KL, while the EU is awaiting an announcement from the Malaysian government of its intention to sit at the negotiation table and try to conclude their Partnership Cooperation Agreement, a prerequisite to the FTA.
  • 30-Dec-2008 AFP
    US, Oman free trade pact to be effective Jan 1
    The United States said Monday that a free trade agreement with oil-rich Oman will enter into force on January 1 2009.
  • 30-Dec-2008 NY Times
    Mexico’s fiscal prudence fails to avert a slowdown
    The North American Free Trade Agreement, which so tightly bound Mexico and the United States and turns 15 on Thursday, is helping drag Mexico down with the United States
  • 29-Dec-2008 AFP
    SKorean opposition ordered to end occupation of parliament
    The head of South Korea’s parliament ordered opposition legislators Monday to end their sit-in by midnight so major bills can be passed, warning them not to force him to take "extreme measures."
  • 29-Dec-2008 Gulf News
    Row stalled Gulf-EU talks
    A disagreement over human rights and democracy was behind the suspension earlier this month of trade talks between the Gulf Cooperation Council and the European Union, an Omani official said yesterday.
  • 28-Dec-2008 AP
    Outlook cloudy for SKorea-US free trade agreement
    Call it the free trade follies. South Korean opposition politicians last week used a sledgehammer to try and force their way into a barricaded committee room to stop the ruling party from introducing debate on a free trade agreement with the United States. Fire extinguishers were used amid the melee — it’s not entirely clear by whom — that threw South Korea’s National Assembly into chaos.
  • 28-Dec-2008 Antara
    Indonesia and New Zealand to resume FTA talks in March
    The negotiation on Free Trade Agreement between Indonesia and New Zealand is expected to be resumed in March 2009 after the signing of the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA agreement in February 2009.
  • 28-Dec-2008 Daily Times
    Pakistan, Afghanistan to ink new trade agreements
    Pakistan and Afghanistan are expected to enter in to a new trade and economic cooperation mechanism during the President of Pakistan first official visit to Afghanistan on January 7, 2009
  • 27-Dec-2008 KNS
    All-night sit-in strike staged in S. Korea
    Representatives of peasant organizations in south Korea went into an all-night sit-in strike in Seoul on Dec. 22 to check the passage of the motion calling for the ratification of the south Korea-US FTA through the National Assembly.
  • 27-Dec-2008 UAE Daily News
    Greater Arab free trade zone no longer useful
    Arab states should not pursue the process of establishing the greater trade zone "because it won’t be useful," an Arab League official says
  • 25-Dec-2008 AFP
    Japan, Vietnam sign free trade pact
    Japan and Vietnam signed an economic partnership pact Thursday with a promise to cut tariffs on some 92 percent of goods and services traded between the two nations within a decade.
  • 25-Dec-2008 MercoPress
    Forget Mercosur, sign trade accord with EU says Brazil industry
    A leading number of Brazilian businessmen belonging to the country’s powerful National Confederation of Industry, CNI, said it was time to sign a bilateral agreement with the European Union, which would leave out Mercosur