US senator wants bilateral investment treaty with India The Times Of India Tweet WASHINGTON: Former US Republican presidential candidate John McCain has suggested that, starting with India, Washington move forward with a bilateral trade agenda in the Asia-Pacific region as it rebalances its foreign policy. | "India is now negotiating an FTA (Free Trade Agreement) with the ...
A history of the world, BRIC by BRIC Al Jazeera | Goldman Sachs - via economist Jim O'Neill in 2001 - invented the concept of a rising new bloc: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and, later, South Africa). Some cynics couldn't help calling it the "Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept". | Now that doesn't really apply. Goldman now the BRICS...
Driving a hard bargain on pay Canberra Times | Nurses vote on industrial action during their EBA negotiations in Melbourne in 2011. Photo: Angela Wylie | The GFC has halted a decline in union membership but more can be done through collective bargaining, MICHAEL INMAN writes | The Craig Thomson...
NASSCOM wants early FTA between India and Australia The Times Of India Tweet MELBOURNE: India's leading Tech trade body NASSCOM has sought signing of the Free Trade agreement ( FTA) with Australia on a priority basis to help strengthen trade relations between the two countries. | NASSCOM Vice President (Global trade and...
We're putting our foot in it NZ Herald | We are heading for hell in a fossil-fuelled handcart, spinning towards implosion. Planet Earth is not able to keep pace with humanity's demands nor cope with its wasteful by-products. And the gap - the "ecological overshoot" - is growing. | This bl...
WRAPUP 4-U.S. firms eye Myanmar as sanctions suspended Reuters | * US approves investment by energy, mining, banking firms | * Myanmar welcomes "excellent" decision | * Rights groups say US move overlooks wars on minorities | * GE says looking at opportunities in health, energy | * Caterpillar aims to step up fi...
WRAPUP 2-U.S. firms eye Myanmar as sanctions suspended Reuters | * US gives green light to investment by energy, mining, banking firms | * Washington urges high standard of corporate responsibility | * Rights groups say US move overlooks brutal wars on minorities | * GE says looking at opportunities in health, e...
American sectarian Al Jazeera | Perhaps the two best-known things about Mitt Romney are that he is a Mormon and that he made a lot of money as a venture capitalist. Since both of these facts present certain liabilities in US politics, his campaign for the White House has tried to...
Tim Groser Speech: Trade Policy Council Scoop Friday, 18 May 2012, 7:11 pm | Speech: New Zealand Government | Hon Tim Groser | 18 May 2012 | Embargoed until 5pm NZT | Speech | Address to the Inter-American Development Bank-International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council | Washington DC ...
Illegal tour guide menace in Singapore Jakarta Post | While Singapore has welcomed a record number of tourists in the last two years, a problem has also emerged: illegal tourist guides muscling in on the action. | They are sullying Singapore's image, passing on wrong information to tourists, and taking away business from those who play by the rules, say licensed tourist guides, who want the Singapor...
Asia stocks rise after Greece sets election date Springfield News-Sun | BANGKOK — Asian stocks were mostly higher Thursday as markets adjusted to Greece's possible exit from the euro common currency and traders hunted for bargains after sharp selling in recent days. | Japan's Nikkei 225 climbed 0.6 percent to 8,849.38 after the country posted better-than-expected growth figures for the first quarter. Hong Kong'...
