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ECFA will intensify left-right spat in Taiwan
19-Jan-2010     Taiwan News
The proposed trade pact between Taiwan and China will only benefit certain people and corporates and intensify a left-right economic spectrum, a scholar told the Central News Agency in an interview.
Honduras: Protest against ALBA withdrawal
18-Jan-2010     GLW
On January 7, hundreds of Hondurans risked violent repression by the police and military to protest outside the national parliament building against the coup regime’s decision to withdraw the country from the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA).
EPA deal: Impasse on services persists
18-Jan-2010     The East African
Although the region has concluded a deal on market access to the European Union, there remain fundamental disagreements on trade in services. The EastAfrican has learnt that the matter will be left out of any deals signed this year as countries want it handled at a bilateral level.
US officials join pessimists about FTA with Korea
18-Jan-2010     Chosun Ilbo
Senior officials in the Obama administration, congressmen and staff see nearly no prospect for the ratification of the Korea-US free trade agreement by the US Congress, according to a group of Korean lawmakers just back from the US.
Palestinians declare war on Jewish settlements' products
17-Jan-2010     Xinhua
The PNA campaign is accompanied by an international campaign to boycott any product made in Israeli settlements that the PNA considers illegal.
Join the 2nd Global BDS Day of Action - 30 March 2010
15-Jan-2010     Global BDS Movement
The Global BDS Day of Action aims to promote a freeze or cancellation of free trade and other preferential agreements as a crucial and urgent step towards full-fledged sanctions against Israel
It’s not OK: protest march against Hillary Clinton
15-Jan-2010     Scoop
Clinton arrives in New Zealand this week pushing her corporate globalisation agenda. She wants a Pacific Free Trade Agreement and closer military ties between the US and New Zealand.
Traditional market is not yet ready for free-trade era
15-Jan-2010     Berita Jakarta
"ASEAN-China free trade is an inhuman and immoral trade," says Hasan Basri, head of the Jakarta chapter of Indonesia's traditional market traders association
The China-Asean free trade area: Propaganda and reality
15-Jan-2010     Inquirer
The propaganda mills, especially in Beijing, have been trumpeting the FTA as bringing “mutual benefits” to China and Asean. The reality, however, is that most of the advantages will probably flow to China, writes Walden Bello.
Commitment needed for China trade
15-Jan-2010     Stuff
We're the only Western country to boast a free trade deal with China. But are New Zealand companies -- and the Government -- doing enough to exploit that?