Temasek moving into Africa
An LNG carrier: Singapore wants to be Asia’s regional LNG hub. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) (19 Nov) - Last week Temasek, one of Singapore’s two sovereign wealth funds, made a $1.3 billion investment in a liquified natural gas block in Tanzania. The deal illustrates a number of trends about the way that investments, particularly...
Trans-Pacific Partnership a covert operation
TPP is corporate greed. (21 Nov) - Federal Senator John Madigan has called on Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Minister for Trade Andrew Robb to come clean on details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, likening the current secrecy surrounding the agreement to that of a covert operation. This afternoon Senator Madigan will pose...
Civil groups demand TPP transparency, user protections
TPP is corporate greed (22 Nov) - Civil society groups are coming out in force against the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, following Wikileaks' publication of the “Intellectual Property” chapter. The leaked chapter confirmed our worst fears that TPP carries Hollywood's wishlist of policies, including...
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