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Eastern promise
12-Feb-2006     Gulf News
Trade and investment. Not words which always set the pulse racing, the heart pounding.
Freedom isn't free
12-Feb-2006     Business Today
Disarray on the political side of the house casts the side of free-trade talks with the United States into question.
Japan, ASEAN to resume free trade talks
12-Feb-2006     Yomiuri Shimbun
Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed Saturday to resume official free trade agreement negotiations in March, as ASEAN welcomed Japan's proposal of a common tariff-elimination method.
Thai service sector must adapt to FTA challenges
12-Feb-2006     MCOT
Economists at the KASIKORN Research Centre (KRC) on Sunday urged Thailand's service sector to adapt if it plans to survive stiff competition caused by free trade area (FTA) agreements Thailand has signed with other countries.
Uribe for US FTA, Colombia against
12-Feb-2006     Prensa Latina
President Alvaro Uribe will travel to the US on Monday to talk about free trade agreements while most Colombians continue rejecting that trade scheme.
No US-ME free trade talks this year but with Egypt
12-Feb-2006     MENAFN
According to US Trade Representative for Europe and the Middle East Shaun Donnelly, the only Arab country under consideration for beginning FTA talks before the summer of 2007 is Egypt.
Oman-US FTA gathers momentum
11-Feb-2006     Zawya
Notwithstanding the Democrats' reservations over the existing labour laws in Oman, the United States is confident that the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that it had signed on January 19 this year in Washington will sail through smoothly in the Congress in the next few months.
Anti-Thaksin rally: Coalition gains momentum
11-Feb-2006     The Nation
The new Royal Plaza alliance of senators and civic groups has boosted the credibility of the movement to oust Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and produced an array of new issues from free trade to human rights violations and the plight of the rural poor
Viet Nam, Japan prepare for negotiations on bilateral FTA
11-Feb-2006    
Vietnamese and Japanese commerce experts will meet in Ha Noi from Feb. 16-18 in preparation for negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries, and a meeting at higher level will be held by the end of this year, according to the Trade Ministry.
Salvadorian women concern on FTA
11-Feb-2006    
Workers of the Salvadorian maquilas Friday expressed their concern on the prompt implementation of the Free Trade Area (FTA) with the US.