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Viewpoint: Labour mobility deals
9-Aug-2008     Islands Business
Under pressure to sign on to new free trade agreements, Pacific Islands governments interested in securing positive outcomes for their peoples see deals on labour mobility as potential development gains. But is this the right approach? And what are the potential costs?
Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement between India, Syria
9-Aug-2008     Economic Times
The Union Cabinet on Friday gave its ex post facto approval for the signing of a Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPA) between India and Syria
India to sign labour agreements with Malaysia, Oman and Bahrain
9-Aug-2008     PIB
India has clinched labour agreements with Malaysia, Oman and Bahrain for protection and welfare of Indian emigrants in these countries.
JCTU urges gov't to postpone EPA signing
8-Aug-2008     Go-Jamaica
The Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions has joined in the call for the government to postpone signing the Economic Partnership Agreement recently negotiated with the European Union.
Two years target for FTA conclusion with EU very ambitious, says Asean Sec-Gen
8-Aug-2008     Bernama
Asean Secretary-General Dr Surin Pitsuwan today shot down the possibility of a speedy conclusion of the European Union-Asean Free Trade Agreement
Issues stalling free trade pact with Asean resolved
8-Aug-2008    
India has concluded negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), with the deadlock over certain ‘outstanding issues' that were stalling the pact from taking off being finally resolved.
Asean, India agree on FTA
7-Aug-2008    
After three years of strenuous talks, negotiations for the free trade agreement (FTA) between Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) and India were finally concluded Thursday.
Unresolved issues aplenty before India-Japan FTA
7-Aug-2008    
Despite India's hope of concluding the Indo-Japan free trade agreement (FTA) in the next round of talks in New Delhi in September this year, there still remains a whole gamut of unresolved issues concerning market access for Indian exports to Japan.
Bush visit prompts nationwide protests
7-Aug-2008     Hankyoreh
Korean citizens voice opposition to US beef deal, Afghan troop deployment and KORUS FTA
Calling for solidarity - Lee Myung-bak government repression against the KCTU and Fundamental Trade Union Rights
7-Aug-2008     KCTU
When KCTU called for general strike on July 2nd, renegotiation of the April 18 Protocol on US beef import to reflect food safety concerns was declared as one of priorities of strike aims. The Ministry of Labor and prosecutor explained that this was the main reason that it was illegal. This is a repetition of the South Korean government's very narrow interpretation that the only legal aims of strikes be related to wages and working conditions.