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Obama urged to move on Latin FTAs
29-Jan-2010     LBC
Latin America business leaders and experts are urging President Barack Obama to ask Congress to ratify pending free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama after his State of the Union speech Wednesday pledged to strengthen ties with those countries.
Indonesians protest government's first 100 days
29-Jan-2010     AFP
"We reject the ASEAN-China FTA. We'll lose our jobs, we can't compete with cheap Chinese products," rally coordinator Agus Supriyanto said.
CP Chairman upbeat over China's market, Sino-Thai cooperation under FTA
29-Jan-2010     Xinhua
Dhanin Chearavanont, chairman of the Thailand's conglomerate Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, saya Thailand is gaining more from the FTA than China.
ACFTA worsens unemployment: INDEF
29-Jan-2010     Jakarta Post
Around 1 million Indonesians might lose their job because of ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement
Stubb proposes free trade agreement and “marriage council” for EU and USA
29-Jan-2010     Helsingin Sanomat
Finland's Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Stubb has proposed a common free trade zone for the European Union and the United States and a kind of marriage counselling for the two.
Shall we protest?
27-Jan-2010     BSS
Documentary film about the Chotbul (« candlelight ») political rallies that paralysed the city of Seoul from May to August 2008. The film explains with great insight and passion how a small online forum of fashion victims called the SoulDresser managed to bring 1 million citizens in the streets to protest against the South Korea/US FTA (free trade agreements).
US scholars see WTO as best path to resolving beef dispute
27-Jan-2010     CNA
By taking the case to the WTO, the US will be able to "depoliticize" the issue, a CSIS fellow argues
Peru to start negotiations to join the P4 trade agreement in March 2010
27-Jan-2010     Andina
In March, Peru will start negotiations to join the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPPA), previously known as P4, announced Peru Deputy Trade Minister, Eduardo Ferreyros.
India to fast-track talks to sew up ASEAN services trade pact
27-Jan-2010     Economic Times
India will try to expedite negotiations on opening up trade in services with the 10-member ASEAN at a senior officials meeting next week in Jakarta.
Jakarta bracing for Thursday's massive rallies
27-Jan-2010     Antara
According to rally organisers, the people are not satisfied with the present government, particularly with regard to issues such as the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Indonesia and China which they said would harm the interest of the people.