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Thai trade deal to be challenged
11-Jan-2006    
Australia's booming trade relations with Thailand are in doubt as a constitutional court challenge against the countries' free trade pact looms in Bangkok.
Violence forces FTA venue switch
11-Jan-2006    
Demonstrators scuffled with police at a downtown hotel, forcing a brief halt in bargaining on the proposed Free Trade Area (FTA) agreement between Thailand and the United States, and negotiators from the two countries decided to change the venue of their meeting.
Anti-FTA protests end - for now
11-Jan-2006    
Protesters from 11 civil society groups opposing the proposed Free Trade Area (FTA) agreement talks between Thailand and the United States forced negotiators to move out of town Wednesday. Then they called off their three-day protest.
New year sees delay in CAFTA implementation
11-Jan-2006     IRC Americas Program
A key argument used by US transnationals and the Bush administration to pass the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)--that Central American countries themselves needed and wanted the agreement--has broken down on the eve of implementation of the controversial pact. This is a summary of the status of CAFTA implementation in each country.
Photos of demonstrations against US-Thai FTA (Chiang Mai, 10 January 2006)
11-Jan-2006     CPTech
Today, around 8000 people were demonstrating in Chiang Mai. A couple of people trying to enter the hotel where the US and Thai negotiating teams were meeting were beaten by the police. 30 people tried to swim across the river to reach the hotel and were beaten too.
Protests force brief halt to trade talks
11-Jan-2006     Bangkok Post
Negotiations on the Thai-US free trade area (FTA) pact were forced to halt briefly yesterday as protesters used any means they could to disrupt the talks.
Government to consider proposed points of opponents of Thai-US FTA
10-Jan-2006    
The Thai government will go ahead with its move to negotiate and conclude a bilateral free trade area (FTA) agreement with the United States, but will take proposed points raised by opponents of the planned Thai-US FTA into consideration, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Tuesday.
FTA talks: Protesters storm trade negotations
10-Jan-2006    
Nearly 10,000 protesters yesterday broke through police barricades surrounding the Sheraton Hotel, where Thai and US negotiators were engaged in free-trade talks.
FTA talks advance; Kraisak may sue
10-Jan-2006    
Thai and US negotiators working on the two countries' bilateral Free Trade Area (FTA) agreement have reached a tentative agreement on tariff cuts for over 204 categories of industrial goods, a senior Thai official announced here on Tuesday.
Protesters break through police barricade at Thai-US trade talks
10-Jan-2006    
Some 6,000 protesters on Tuesday broke through a barricade around the hotel where Thai and US negotiators are holding free trade talks, police said.