Tag: Investment
PNG’s trade minister pledges China, Indon free trade deals are ‘in...
By Matthew Vari, editor of the PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's Minister for International Trade and Investment Richard Maru has assured investors in Asia that...
Starved of funds and vision, struggling universities put NZ’s entire research...
ANALYSIS: By Nicola Gaston, University of Auckland
The crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand’s university and wider research sector did not happen overnight. While funding shortfalls...
Fiji’s reduced VAT ‘a failed gamble’ – a vision now needed,...
By Meri Radinibaravi in Suva
The gamble that the previous FijiFirst government took in 2016 — in reducing the value added tax (VAT) rate from...
Fiji’s new investment law leads to ‘confusion and risk’, say lawyers
By Luke Nacei in Suva
Foreign investors could be sent to jail in Fiji for breaking a new investment law, says the prominent Suva law...
PM Jacinda Ardern launches US tour with NZ ‘open for business’...
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has spoken to media to demonstrate to the US market that New Zealand is "open for business", having arrived...
Investments minister ‘rules out’ more palm oil plantations in Papua
By Hans Nicholas Jong in Jakarta
A top Indonesian official has declared a halt to new oil palm plantations in the country’s heavily forested West...
Timor-Leste president to make first official visit to Indonesia
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Timor-Leste President Francisco Guterres will make his first official overseas visit to Indonesia this week, reports Antara news agency.
President Guterres will...
China coal plant building at crossroads amid carbon pricing reforms
China is currently building more coal plants than it needs and in doing so is misallocating capital at an unprecedented rate.
As of July 2016,...
Indonesia and Japan agree to step up maritime security, plan rail...
Indonesia and Japan have agreed to step up maritime security and start discussions on a major railway project to link Jakarta and Surabaya in...
Barry Coates: The TPPA is dead. What next?
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...
Bryan Bruce: Staring into the face of the TPPA ‘shamocracy’
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...
German judges oppose ‘investment courts’ for Europe trade deal
Stop TIPP
In a statement, Germany’s largest association of judges and public prosecutors has firmly rejected the European Commission’s proposal to create an investment court ...