Public health officials working closely with the World Health Organisation yesterday vowed to continue their strong collaboration with the WHO despite widespread reports of possible interference by Washington in the international body's administrative affairs. The US government was allegedly behind the abrupt removal of William Aldis, the WHO representative to Thailand, after he wrote of possible adverse impacts Thailand could suffer if it went ahead and signed a free trade agreement with the US in its present state.
Taiwan hopes to sign a free trade agreement with El Salvador in October, if negotiations could be completed smoothly, Director-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department of Central and South American Affairs Ko Jai-son said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said in Karachi on Sunday that no progress had been made so far with the Indian government on the resolution of Siachen, let alone Kashmir and other vital issues, but he hoped that “outstanding issues will be resolved soon if the dialogue between the two neighbours continues”.
A short term delay before implementing the DR-CAFTA trade accord should not significantly affect investment plans in the country, according to the U.S. investment company, Bear Stearns.
Baby steps are not always giant leaps for India, let alone for mankind. The reopening of the Nathu La pass, a key junction for trade between India and China over centuries, could have been a momentous event.
The SAARC Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI) organized a seminar on SAFTA, Expanding Business Opportunities in Karachi on the occasion of Seventh SAARC trade fair.
Before I moved to South Korea, I learned my host country is practically an American protectorate. By watching news it is easy to see from outside: Wartime command, intervening in North-South relations, and so on.
South Korea has internationally recognized labor and environmental standards that would ease opposition by US Democrats who traditionally don't favour trade agreements with foreign countries, a South Korean asserted this week.
Korea and US business leaders agreed Wednesday to push for the completion of a free trade agreement between Korea and the US. But at the 19th Korea-US Business Council meeting in Seoul, the two sides failed to see eye to eye on some key issues, especially whether products made in the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex should be included and whether Koreans should be granted a visa waiver in the US.
THE Government will look at expanding its free trade negotiations with the United Arab Emirates to take in a deal with a much wider group of Middle Eastern nations.
The member states of the Gulf Co-operation Council - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE - have asked Australia to incorporate the bilateral negotiations into a wider deal.
South Korea will hold a series of talks with Canada in Seoul next week on a free trade agreement (FTA), the country's Agriculture Ministry said Tuesday.
The United States is the world's largest economy while South Korea ranks tenth. The two countries started negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in Washington D.C. June 5-10.
The United States does not want goods produced in the Kaesong industrial complex to be included in the free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, a senior economic official at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul said.
The Korean Peasants League and the Korea Dairy & Beef Farmers Association have filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade over the ministry's reluctance to share information with them related to the first round of South Korean-US free trade talks that concluded in Washington last week.
