Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Japans Prime Minister Abe will announce this afternoon that Japan will seek to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPPA) negotiations. He already has US endorsement to do so, says Professor Jane Kelsey who has just returned from …
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Speech – The White House Remarks by Tom Donilon, National Security Advisor to the President As Prepared for Delivery The Asia Society New York, New York Monday, March 11, 2013 The United States and the Asia-Pacific in 2013 As Prepared for Delivery Thank you, Henrietta, …
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Press Release – Professor Jane Kelsey Newly elected Prime Minister Abe is expected to announce next week that Japan has formally asked to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPPA) negotiations, ending more than a year of on-again, off-again speculation
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Press Release – Joint Media Statement Business representatives from around the Asia Pacific region, gathered for the 16th round of Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations currently underway in Singapore, urged negotiators to show flexibility and narrow the range of differences so that …
High quality TPP needs to be concluded, urge businesses Read More »
Press Release – Asian Development Bank Asia has become increasingly integrated over the past decade, led by growing trade and tourism and, most recently, as the region faced down the global financial crisis and subsequent eurozone crisis, according to a new integration index published in …
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Press Release – Oxfam The United States is again pursuing an important free trade agreement that will lock in high drug prices out of poor peoples reach this time across the Asia-Pacific region, warns international agency Oxfam.
TPPA to exacerbate Vietnam’s access to medicines crisis Read More »
Press Release – NZIBF The New Zealand International Business Forum (NZIBF) is taking advantage of the NZPGA Pro-Am Championship and Challenge Golf Tournament in Queenstown to hold a business forum on 2 March with visiting Japanese business leaders. The presence in New …
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Press Release – William Buck New Zealands growing importance as a key player in the Asia Pacific region has been further enhanced by the re-appointment of William Buck Christmas Gouwlands Arran Boote as regional Chair of one of the worlds largest economic alliances.
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Column – War Is A Crime Its hard for me, an ordinary citizen of Singapore, a medical doctor engaged in social enterprise work in Afghanistan and a human being wishing for a better world, to write this from Kabul. But people are dying. And children and women are feeling …
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Press Release – Grain and Seed Trade Assn New Zealands annual seed harvest is about to hit overdrive, and if last years official trade figures are any indication, theres a surprising amount of money riding on the next few weeks.
High Value Harvest Underway Read More »
Column – Gordon Campbell New Zealand has been hosting the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks in Auckland for the past week, but you’d have to say things haven’t worked out quite as well as some had hoped. In fact, it has been a bit sad to watch, up close.
Gordon Campbell: NZ’s embarrassing TPP overtures to the US Read More »
Press Release – AFTINET “The US proposal in the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement for foreign investor rights to sue governments in international tribunals is a challenge to national sovereignty and should be rejected,” Dr Patricia Ranald, Convener of the Australian Fair Trade …
Investor rights to sue governments hotly debated – TPP talks Read More »
