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With Avatar poised to win big at the Oscars, James Cameron should help some Na’vi right here on Earth
2-Mar-2010     The Indypendent
Cameron should put the money made from the blockbuster where it’s needed most: into indigenous communities struggling for the conservation of their land and livelihood.
EU trade pacts
2-Mar-2010     Fiji Times
A new study shows that the effects of EPAs - under which African, Caribbean and Pacific countries are expected to offer duty-free access to 'substantially all' EU imports - will be felt differently by women and men in their roles as producers, consumers and users of services.
Colombia finalizes FTA with EU
2-Mar-2010     Colombia Reports
Colombia concluded negotiations on Monday for a free trade agreement with the European Union, after nine rounds of talks.
EU inks FTA with Peru, Colombia
2-Mar-2010     Press TV
The European Union has reached a free trade agreement with Peru and Colombia, an EU Commission spokesman said Monday. "Yes, there is an agreement."
Peru opens free trade with China, concludes trade talks with EU
2-Mar-2010     WSJ
Peru's president Alan Garcia officially opened free trade with China Monday, and welcomed the close of negotiations on another trade deal with the European Union.
EU highest court: Israeli goods produced in the West Bank not free from custom duties
1-Mar-2010     EJP
The European Court of Justice has ruled that under the EU-Israel FTA, duty-free entry to the EU only applies to industrial goods made within Israel’s pre-1967 borders.
Obama trip may alter US misperception of Asean, Ministers say
1-Mar-2010     Bloomberg
Southeast Asian countries are split on Obama’s top trade initiative, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which he aims to turn into a platform for economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region.
Seoul to lead study on East Asia FTA
26-Feb-2010     Korea Herald
The government said yesterday Korea would take the initiative in discussions on integrating the East Asian economies and push for a trilateral free trade agreement between Korea, China and Japan.
Tough IP health provisions in Europe’s Colombia/Peru trade deal
26-Feb-2010     IP Watch
Far-reaching provisions on the patenting of medicine have been inserted into a controversial free trade agreement between the European Union and Colombia and Peru.
EU trade chief to visit India
26-Feb-2010     DPA
The European Commissioner for Trade, Karel De Gucht, is due to travel to Singapore to launch negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) and to Delhi "to inject new momentum into the ongoing FTA negotiations"