Tag: Trade
Step Up step in right direction, but Australia ‘needs to listen...
By the Vanuatu Daily Post
The Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University this week launched new policy research into the relationship between Australia and some...
Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts...
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya in Auckland
More than 50 years of "torture" has been inflicted on the Papuan people by the Indonesian government. With the...
Brexit referendum asked the wrong questions, says AUT academic
By Anya Imandin
The right answer to the wrong question over the Brexit referendum is still the wrong answer, says an Auckland University of Technology...
Indonesian leader meets Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, vows support
By Mahmut Atanur in Jakarta
Indonesian President Joko Widodo visited Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, southwestern district of Bangladesh, as part of his official...
PACER Plus not final – PNG says no, Fiji lukewarm, Vanuatu...
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...
NZ’s John Key to visit Europe, UK and Indonesia for trade...
Prime Minister John Key will visit the United Kingdom and Europe next week for a series of bilateral meetings and to attend Bastille Day...
Brush up on perceptions of ASEAN trade partners, envoy tells NZ
By TJ Aumua in Auckland
New Zealanders need to catch up with reality about the country's trade partners in the South-East Asia region, says an...
Two NZ media groups initiate closer ties with Fiji
A new platform to bring together entrepreneurs engaged or planning to engage in industrial, commercial and investment activities in Fiji has been created in...
Fiji may change mind over PACER Plus if labour mobility issues...
By Tevita Vuibau in Suva
Fiji may just change its mind and agree to the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) Plus -- contrary...
Anti-TPP ‘death to democracy’ protests in Latin America … and NZ
Thousands of protesters in Chile and Peru - as well as in New Zealand - protested against the signing of the controversial Trans Pacific...
‘The biggest protest this country has seen in years’ – Germans...
Zero Hedge
By Tyler Durdan, a blog commentary written after the anti-TTIP protests in Berlin last October when more than 250,000 people demonstrated.
FLASHBACK: When it...
Jane Kelsey: All pain, no gain – why not a TPP-free...
Pacific Media Centre
OPINION: By Professor Jane Kelsey
In New Zealand, we dared to declare ourselves nuclear-free in the 1980s - dire warnings that ditching the...
Controversial TPP pact signed amid huge Auckland protest
One of the biggest and most controversial trade deals in history has been signed by ministers from the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas, as...
Protesters peacefully blockade central Auckland as ministers sign TPPA
Pacific Media Centre
The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement has been signed at Sky City in Auckland today as the downtown heart of New Zealand's largest...
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 ...
TPP out of step with human rights – don’t sign, says...
From United Nations
Special correspondent in Geneva
United Nations human rights expert Alfred de Zayas has called on governments not to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership without...
TPPA national interest analysis criticised as flimsy and biased
Report from Evening Report
By Selwyn Manning in Auckland
New Zealand Trade Minister Todd McClay yesterday released the National Interest Analysis (NIA), a document tasked to...
Rousing, inspirational public challenge to ‘no way’ TPPA deal
Report from Pacific Media Watch
A leading critic of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement last night showed off "Tim the dead rat" to rousing cheers,...