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Building momentum: The anti-free trade strike in Colombia 27 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
As Colombian peasants ended their eighth day of an anti-free trade agreement strike last night by forcing President Juan Manuel Santos to the negotiating table, thousands of protesters banging pots an...
Pakistan: Bilateral investment treaty model 27 Aug 2013 | 09:44 am
Keen to attract direct foreign capital, the government of Pakistan has evolved a ‘model template' that would serve as the basis for negotiations for future bilateral investment treaties.
South Africa terminates its bilateral investment treaty with Spain 27 Aug 2013 | 09:40 am
This is the second BIT terminated as part of South Africa's planned review of its investment treaties
Growth in global disputes brings big paychecks for law firms 27 Aug 2013 | 09:33 am
Debt woes, broken contracts and soured business deals may cost global investors billions in losses and create seemingly never-ending headaches for policy makers. But there is a set of specialists prof...
Malaysia should abandon TPP talks, ex-PM Mahathir says 27 Aug 2013 | 09:21 am
The Malaysian government should pull out from the trans-Pacific free trade talks, former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday, calling the proposed trade pact a US tool to extend its hegemony.
Proposed US-EU trade deal may impact business in GCC: report 27 Aug 2013 | 09:16 am
The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and Europe will impact the GCC region's aviation, energy and financial services' sectors, a report has shown.
China keen to review and improve FTA with ASEAN: PM Lee 27 Aug 2013 | 09:08 am
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is in China for a one-week visit, has said that China is keen to review and improve its Free Trade Agreement with ASEAN and that Singapore will do its par...
Slow progress in Africa free trade talks 27 Aug 2013 | 09:05 am
Negotiations between three trade blocs in Africa to create a free trade area were running behind schedule in terms of reaching their 2014 deadline but were nevertheless progressing, South Africa Trade...
Kenya Bracing for Comesa Sugar Imports 26 Aug 2013 | 11:01 am
Kenya's sugar sector is in limbo as the COMESA safeguard period nears its end. COMESA is the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa.
Car handouts 'hindering FTA with China' 26 Aug 2013 | 10:57 am
The executive chairman of the company behind Australia's top-selling cheese brand has warned that the Australian government's support for the car industry is holding up a free-trade agreement with Chi...
