Photo Gallery : Launch of Rethinking Bilateral Investment Treaties

"The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is back without the United States and Malaysia has agreed to it.

Today, my friends Burghard Ilge and Kavaljit Singh launched their book along with Karina Yong from Third World Network, and discussed the challenges which lie ahead for Malaysia, especially on giving special rights for only foreign corporations to sue our country.

Investor-State Dispute Settlement or ISDS as it is popularly known, has created a huge ripple in the TPP and another big deal Malaysia is signing, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)."

                                                                       -- Charles Santiago, Director of MSN