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mreuther@sungazette.com Efforts to reform nursing home care have drawn the attention of lawmakers at both the state and federal levels. U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Zionsville, and Robert Casey, D-Scranton, have joined in a bipartisan effort to enhance accountability among the nation’s poorest performing nursing homes. The Nursing Home Reform Modernization Act of 2021 would ensure more facilities that have consistently failed to meet federal safety and care requirements can receive additional oversight and enforcement as well as technical assistance and educational programming. “It’s one th...

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Hugh StephensDistinguished Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada This year Japan assumes the Chairmanship of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), and will convene the annual meeting of the Parties, known as the CPTPP Commission. Recall that the CPTPP, the eleven-country agreement that emerged out of the ashes of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) when the U.S. withdrew after Donald Trump took office, came into effect at the very end of December 2018. Six of the eleven signatories (Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore) fast-tracked their...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: After eight years of back-and-forth negotiations, Asia’s Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership on Trade (RCEP), the world’s largest regional trade agreement, was signed in an online ceremony on 15 November 2020. While more limited than the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP-12) and its successor, the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), it is a major regional free trade agreement that poses challenges for the United States, which opted out of TPP-12 and CPTPP and was not part of RCEP, and c...

Trade tonic Trade tonic Two mega-deals will help regional economies recover more quickly from the pandemic and reap major gains in the long term. By Nareerat Wiriyapong published : 25 Jan 2021 at 12:30 2 Two mega free-trade agreements (FTAs) will contribute immediately to the recovery of Southeast Asian countries because they broaden and deepen free trade with key partners at a time when the region is dealing with the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, leading analysts say. Signed at the Asean Summit hosted by Hanoi on Nov 15 last y...