Hari ini (26 Ogos), 10.30 pagi, Dataran Merdeka, tapak pengisytiharan kemerdekaan TAnah Melayu ataupun Malaya pada tengah malam 31 Ogos 1957, kelihatan warna- warni dengan pelangsungan raptai sempena Kemerdekaan ke-50 negara. Di satu sudut pulak lebih 500 orang dari pelbagai lapisan masyarakat mula mengisi tempat untuk menyatakan bantahan mereka terhadap perundingan Perjanjian Perdagangan Bebas(FTA) […]
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KERAJAAN MALAYSIA : JANGAN JADI TALI BARUT AMERIKA!! LAUNGAN RAKYAT MEMBANTAH FTA US- MALAYSIA
Published by August 27th, 2007 in Government Policies & Negligence, Economy and International Affairs. 0 CommentsMalaysia Economic Development Since Merdeka: Lessons for the Present and Future
KL/Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall
Published by July 25th, 2007
in Economy and Event.
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Malaysia as a nation turns into 50 this year. In commemoration of 50 years of nationhood, there has never a better time for Malaysians to reflect on the present, its origins in the past and what the future holds. The economic crisis that began in 1997 has reduced growth rates since.
Ten years after the crisis, […]
EU-ASEAN FTA Forum
No. 12, Jalan Tun Sambathan 3, Brickfields
Published by June 26th, 2007
in Economy.
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The FTA Coalition along with Monitoring Sustainability of Globalisation (MSN) is organizing a half day talk on the EU-ASEAN FTA and would like to extend an invitation to all of you. Details of the talk are below:
Date: 7th July 2007, Saturday
Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm
Venue: No. 12, Jalan Tun Sambathan 3, Brickfields, KL (behind the Petronas […]
Dato’ Sri Rafidah Aziz Tergugat dengan Kempen Bantah FTA
Published by June 25th, 2007 in Government Policies & Negligence, Economy, International Affairs, Economic Rights and Malaysian NGOs. 0 CommentsHari ini (Ahad, 24/06/2007) lebih 30 ahli dari Gabungan Rakyat Membantah US-Malaysia FTA telah turun ke kawasan Kuala Kangsar , kawasan Parlimen Dato’ Sri Rafidah Aziz , Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri untuk mengedar risalah membantah FTA. Wakil-wakil gabungan yang kebanyakannya terdiri daripada ahli JERIT dan Parti Sosialis Malaysia, serta rakan seperjuangan dari PAS, Keadilan […]
WE WISH to refer to a news report that Washington wants KL to open its rice mart for FTA.
According to the report, the Assistant USTR made it clear that rice needed to be included in the on-going talks on the US-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement (Mufta).
The US does not believe that the inclusion of rice in […]
US wants rice to be included in FTA with Malaysia
Published by June 12th, 2007 in Economy and International Affairs. 0 CommentsThe US has indicated that it wants Malaysia to open up its rice market to US rice, an issue which has been a sticking point in the FTA negotiations between the two countries.
This is suggestive of US confidence in competing in the Malaysian rice market where currently a 40% tariff is imposed on imported rice […]
Malaysia and US to hold informal FTA talks
Published by May 29th, 2007 in Economy and Malaysian NGOs. 0 CommentsInside US Trade
Malaysia FTA Talks To Continue On Informal Basis, No Date Set
Date: May 25, 2007
The U.S. and Malaysia are not planning another formal round of talks for a free trade agreement as this time, and instead are hoping to make progress toward an FTA through informal talks of smaller groups of negotiators, U.S. and […]
TWN FTA Info: Recent Postings on FTA Website
Published by April 19th, 2007 in Economy, Civil Liberties and International Affairs. 0 CommentsRecent postings on FTA website
We wish to bring to your attention two recent news articles on the
US-Malaysia FTA which have been posted on the www.ftamalaysia.org website.
They are:
1. Mandatory Labelling of GMOs
The Natural Resources and Environment Minister Azmi Khalid has been quoted
in the press as saying that Malaysia has insisted in free trade talks with
the US […]
PROTEST AGAINST FTA IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE KOREAN PEOPLE
South Korean Embassy, Jln Ampang, KL
Published by April 14th, 2007
in Economy, International Affairs and Economic Rights.
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Dear Friends of NGO, Community Groups and Political Parties
2 weeks back, just minutes before the clock in Washington strike 12 that is
minutes before the fast track authority ended on 1 April 2007, the US-Korean
FTA was signed. This was done despite, hundreds and thousands of Korean
people protested to oppose the US-Korea FTA.
The Korean government did not […]
TWN FTA Info: Moratorium on Free Trade Agreements
Published by April 10th, 2007 in Corporate Social Responsibility, Economy, International Affairs and Economic Rights. 1 CommentLaura Carlsen, the Director of the IRC Americas Program examines the recently signed free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and South Korea, along with Peru, Colombia and Panama and how there is a need for an FTA freeze in the current Bush administration. She also urged for the development of a trade policy […]
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