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Stir over end to trade deals fades
5-Feb-2014     Business Day
A stir greeted last year’s announcement by the South African government that it would not be renegotiating bilateral investment agreements with major trading partners such as the EU. However, it now seems as if a lot of dust has settled around the Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill, which is set to replace the agreements.
German public TV videos on TTIP - now in EN
5-Feb-2014     CEO
CEO has put English subtitles to two excellent media reports on TTIP that were shown on German public TV in the previous months.
Is the TPP dead?
5-Feb-2014     Acronym TV
An interview with Kevin Zeese, organizer with Flush the TPP and Popular Resistance.
Rurelec wins historic Bolivian compensation award
4-Feb-2014     Stock Market Wire
UK power generator Rurelec has won an historic Bolivian compensation award worth $35.5m, the first granted by an international court against Bolivia.
German unrest mounts over EU-US FTA
4-Feb-2014     Tax News
There is mounting opposition among members of Germany's black-red Grand Coalition Government to the planned Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and the US.
Move on data protection or fail on TTIP, EU Parliament chair says
3-Feb-2014     IP Watch
On 31 January, there was a stern warning from Elmar Brok, chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, that the United States must move quicker on joint data protection standards to avoid failure of the bilateral talks between the EU and the US.
PH: Businessmen mixed on country’s TPP bid
3-Feb-2014     Business World
"The Philippines should not just enter into a deal out of fear of being left out," Alfredo M. Yao, president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, says.
EU ambassador: finishing CETA technical negotiations ‘a question of weeks’
3-Feb-2014     iPolitics
“We think that it might be in about six months that we have a text, which will be not the final text, I think that for the final text we have to wait two years — it will be 2015,” the EU’s ambassador to Canada said.
EAC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations held in Brussels
3-Feb-2014     EAC Secretariat
Ministers from East Africa Community Partner States and the European Commissioner for Trade met in Brussels on 30th January 2014 to conclude three days of negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreement.
Not a hacker or whistleblower? Here's how you can still liberate secret documents
3-Feb-2014     Waging Nonviolence
When there are documents that the public has a right to know about, we have a right to go take them, writes Daniel Hunter
Zuma says Eastern, Southern Africa moving toward Free Trade Area
3-Feb-2014     Bloomberg
Twenty-six eastern and southern African nations are making progress toward agreeing on a free trade area that will create a market with nearly 600 million people and combined gross domestic product of $1 trillion, South African President Jacob Zuma said.
Prevent free trade agreements TTIP/TAFTA - please sign!
3-Feb-2014     Care2
Please sign on to this German petition against TTIP/TAFTA before 24 Feb 2013
GCC looks east for win-win trade deals
3-Feb-2014     Gulf News
The Gulf Cooperation Council is increasingly looking eastward to secure trade accords, which in itself reflects the difficulties in concluding free trade agreements with the likes of the European Union.
Give foreign nurses in Japan a boost by treating accord as long-term remedy for labor shortages
3-Feb-2014     Japan Times
Japanese authorities are reluctant to admit the need for foreign labor and consider EPA candidates as part of a serious measure to overcome the shortfall, preferring instead to see them as part of an exchange program where their eventual return are replaced by new batches.
Gold may be excluded from free-trade agreement with India
3-Feb-2014     The Nation
India is considering withdrawing some products from the Free-Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand after facing a huge trade deficit, with gold likely to be excluded from the pact.