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PROTESTERS against a controversial new Pacific trade agreement clashed with police in the Philippines’ capital yesterday.
Demonstrators scuffled with officers as they tried to enter the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit in Manila.
Trade unions, students, farmers, indigenous people and women’s groups oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pact as a continuation of Apec’s failed free trade model.
The 25th anniversary meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation in the Kyrgyz capital may offer a glimmer of hope that international relations do not need to be defined by endless confrontation, writes KENNY COYLE
Powerful agribusiness interests are trying to overturn efforts by the Lula government to protect the environment and indigenous peoples of the Amazon region, writes GABRIELA SA PESSOA
MIKE MARTIN surveys the regional opposition to US attempts to force the region into a military confrontation with China
