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Friday, November 21, 2008 Friday, November 21, 2008
Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News update Santiago airport plan to double passenger traffic
Headlines: Celebrities on deck as Ilen refit gets underway in Ireland; Stanley Services Ltd: kerosene price explosion not imminent; Longer wait for ... Santiago de Chile’s international air terminal Pudahuel will be expanded to receive 20 million passengers annually from its current 9 million. The ...
Friday, November 21, 2008 Friday, November 21, 2008
FDA announces offices world wide; first in Beijing World economic confidence index falls to 20-year low
The United States opened Wednesday a Food and Drug Administration office in Beijing, as the first step in an FDA strategy to try to improve food and drug safety ... A world economic confidence index released Thursday dropped to its lowest level in 20 years amid further news of heavy losses on global markets and an ongoing ...
Friday, November 21, 2008 Friday, November 21, 2008
CAP reform cuts subsidies, liberalizes dairy market RBS shareholders vote on £ 20 billion bail out plan
European Union farm ministers have agreed to reform agricultural policy by shifting more subsidies away from production and liberalising the dairy market. The ... Shareholders in Royal Bank of Scotland are to vote on a £20 billion bail-out plan which could put nearly 60% of the company in public hands. RBS, one of the ...
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China still has Latin American ambitions Uruguay Plays Hardball Politics Against Argentina’s Kirchner
China isn’t letting the global financial crisis shrink its ambitions in Latin America, where it has sunk billions into mining and replaced the United ... Pulp Mill Dispute Threatens to Do Grave Damage to MERCOSUR, Which Could Then Spread to Newly-Formed UNASUR ...
Friday, November 21, 2008 Friday, November 21, 2008
China announces overhaul of dairy industry safety OECD 3Q GDP declined 0.1%, first time in 7 years
China announced a complete overhaul of its dairy industry Thursday to improve safety at every step, from cow breeding to milk sales, admitting its worst food ... Gross domestic product (GDP) in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD area declined by 0.1% in the third quarter of 2008, the first ...
Friday, November 21, 2008 Friday, November 21, 2008
Chile’s balanced budget threatened by less copper surplus Ecuador auditing commission suggests halting bond payments
Plummeting prices for copper and molybdenum, Chile’s main exports, are expected to have a negative impact on the country’s finances and for the ... A commission auditing Ecuador's foreign debt has recommended that the country halt payments on three bonds worth 3.9 billion USD after finding ...
Thursday, November 20, 2008 Thursday, November 20, 2008
Marches to protest building of dams in Chilean Patagonia Pacific rim leaders meet in Lima for trade talks
Several hundred demonstrators gathered outside of Endesa’s Santiago headquarters Wednesday evening to protest the Spanish-Italian electricity ... The United States, China, Japan and some emerging economy heavyweights will push for quick action on free trade deals at a summit meeting this weekend as an ...
Thursday, November 20, 2008 Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Chile shocked with surfacing of vanished political prisoner Aerolineas: Kirchners “ignore” terms of deal with Spain
The reappearance of a man who was officially dead has shaken and outraged some in Chile which still mourns 1,196 other political prisoners who vanished in the ... Argentina's government has violated the terms of a deal to nationalize the country's largest airline, the carrier's owner said Wednesday, which could lead to a ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Obama rings Cristina and invites himself to visit Argentina Net immigration to UK reached 237.000 last year
Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner who is currently on a North African tour, held a telephone conversation with US President-elect Barack ... Net immigration to the United Kingdom rose to 237,000 in 2007, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). The number was up by 46,000 on 2006 as a ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Wednesday, November 19, 2008
US consumer prices drop 1% and building permits to '69 level Spain slipping into 12-month recession says Central Bank
United States consumer prices dropped by a record 1% in October compared with the previous month, as fuel costs kept falling for a third month in a row. Fuel ... Spain is likely to slip into recession in the fourth quarter and stay there during 2009, Bank of Spain governor Miguel Angel Fernandez Ordonez said on Wednesday ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Wednesday, November 19, 2008
OPEC president says members have lost 700 billion USD Unknown extinct yellow-eyed penguin identified in NZ
With Deutsche Bank forecasting a barrel of oil at 40 USD in 2009, Opec president Chakib Khelil said members of the cartel have lost about 700 billion US dollars ... The discovery of a previously unknown and now extinct New Zealand penguin could be just one of many breakthroughs as scientists probe the secrets of ancient ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Communist allies China, Cuba hold landmark summit Rockhopper: North Falkland basin oil economic at 25 USD
China's President Hu Jintao on Wednesday was to wrap up a landmark visit to Cuba where he brought millions of dollars in aid and promises of closer trade ties. ... Rockhopper Exploration has reiterated its intention to start drilling over its licenses in the North Falkland basin as soon as rig availability, financing and ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Japan sets off whaling season; ignores Australia Salmon disease outbreak reappears in Magallanes region
Japan’s whaling fleet mother ship, Nisshin Maru, has slipped out of port on the way to a full-scale Antarctic hunt, despite repeated attempts by the ... Six months after authorities confirmed an initial, presumably isolated case of Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) in Magallanes (Region XII) the deadly fish disease ...
   
 
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