AsureQuality and PwC have inked a deal with  COFCO, China’s largest agricultural and food products supplier, to continually improve China’s food safety and quality. AsureQuality and PwC (China and NZ arms) inked the deal with Cofco this morning (Beijing time) on the side-lines of the 2014 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Beijing. The formal release says: “Drawing on leading …

The pressure will go on Barack Obama today to put his political capital on the line and get Congressional support to close out TPP. The mantra around the Apec meeting earlier today was “the finish line is in sight” when it comes to finalising negotiations on the Trans Pacific Partnership. The chapters of the TPP agreement are in place with …

It might be churlish to note that the United States wasn’t making a great deal of the anti-competitive nature of other nation’s currency settings when it was in the thick of quantitative easing That unpalatable truth hasn’t featured at all among the issues up for negotiation during the lengthy Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations. But the Financial Times is reporting that the Obama …