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POLITICAL BYTES: By Ian Powell There is a reported apparent rift within cabinet between Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta and Defence Minister Andrew Little over Aotearoa...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Newly elected Māori Pati president and columnist John Tamihere has launched a blistering criticism of New Zealand’s negative media attitude to...

Vietnam’s human rights record could jeopardise an upcoming free trade deal with the European Union, according to Human Rights Watch. Asia-Pacific Journalism’s Jessica Marshall...

ANALYSIS: By Joey Tau in Suva Vanuatu is the latest Melanesian state to express reservations on the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) agreement...

ANALYSIS: By Barry Coates A new trade agreement has been concluded between some of the Pacific island nations and their richer neighbours -- Australia and...

By Haeril Halim Indonesia has proposed the setting up of a new trade bloc that could counterbalance the dominance of the United States and China. The...

Barry Coates' speech in the New Zealand Parliament marking the end of the TPPA. OPINION: By Barry Coates There is a myth going around that President-elect...

By Bob Makin in Port Vila Some eight years of negotiations on the legal texts have gone into deciding what the Pacific free trade agreement...

Prime Minister John Key will visit the United Kingdom and Europe next week for a series of bilateral meetings and to attend Bastille Day...

President Pranab Mukherjee says India needs to make efforts to improve its presence in the Asia Pacific region to counterbalance the growing influence of...

By Bryan Bruce I spoke at my first parliamentary Select Committee hearing in New Zealand this week. It was on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) and...

Does the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership "free trade" agreement between Pacific Rim nations fail to address “the most important issue of our time”? Dominic Pink...