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Africa: Concerns over Chinese investment and working conditions
16-Jun-2008     IPS
Chinese investment in African countries comes with few strings attached -- which is exactly what concerns civil society organisations.
US-South Korean beef talks fail to reach agreement
16-Jun-2008     Xinhua
Talks between the United States and South Korea over the resumption of American beef imports ended Sunday without any agreement, US Trade Representative spokeswoman Gretchen Hamel said.
Ecuador, ALBA and the FARC
16-Jun-2008     Scoop
Recent remarks by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on the civil war in Colombia and Ecuador's decision not to join the Alternativa Bolivariana de las Americas (ALBA) solidarity based cooperation initiative shows progressive leaders are taking stock on Latin American integration.
Ranbaxy deal may help India's entry into Japan
16-Jun-2008     Financial Express
The Daiichi Sankyo-Ranbaxy Laboratories deal has come as a shot in the arm for India's Comprehensive Economic Co-operation Agreement (CECA) negotiations with Japan. Indian pharma companies have been unable to break into Japan, the world's second largest drug market, due to the country's stringent sanitary and phytosanitary standards, technical barriers to trade (TBT) and environmental norms.
S. Korea, Europe seek FTA conclusion in 2008
16-Jun-2008     Korea Times
Europe wants to conclude a free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea by the year's end to further boost bilateral economic ties
“Free trade”, neoliberal immigration & the globalization of guestworker programs
15-Jun-2008    
An analysis of how free trade and investment agreements affect migrant workers
Building its ties to Colombia: Canada's imperial adventure in the Andes
15-Jun-2008     The Bullet
The United States and Canada have chosen to promote Colombia as an aggressive and heavily militarized bulwark against anti-imperialism in the region -- an Israel of the Andes.
Beef imports to Korea: An open letter to President Bush
15-Jun-2008     OhMyNews
Korean middle school student Chae-song Kim asks that the trade agreement be reconsidered
Indonesia, Australia to speed up ASEAN-ANZ free trade
14-Jun-2008     Jakarta Post
Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest economy, and Australia pledged Friday to help accelerate a negotiation to secure a free-trade agreement between the Association of Southeast Asian Nation, Australia and New Zealand (AANZ-FTA).
Canada-Colombia FTA: When democracy gets in the way, just sign it, eh?
14-Jun-2008     ZNet
Many Canadians may never know the difficulties of people resisting the military imposition of an economic model that is ultimately intended for the entire planet, or for 'our Mother Earth' as the indigenous peoples in Cauca call it. Many Canadians may not know the extent to which they are kept in the dark through the entrenched telling and retelling of the "Canada the good" mythology. It's time to wake up, eh?