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Montevideo, May 3rd 2024 - 16:11 UTC

Stories for August 2009

  • Thursday, August 6th 2009 - 16:14 UTC

    China appeases peasants with partly subsidized new pension scheme

    Discontent is widespread in rural areas because of income disparity with urban residents.

    The Chinese government is to introduce a new pension scheme for the country's hundreds of millions of rural workers. The minister for social security announced that a trial scheme would be extended across China by October.

  • Thursday, August 6th 2009 - 16:09 UTC

    Hazardous waste illegally sent to Brazil returned to UK

    MSC Oriane is transporting 89 containers with 1.500 tons.

    Brazil announced it was returning 1.500 tonnes of hazardous waste that arrived from Britain labelled as recyclable plastic. The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources said 89 containers left for Felixstowe, UK from the port of Santos on board MSC Oriane.

  • Thursday, August 6th 2009 - 03:40 UTC

    The future of Antarctic science will depend on international cooperation

    Kennicut: The increased cost of fuel oil and a complex global economic situation, have triggered the need to optimize the joint work of nations.

    The National Antarctic Programs have reached a consensus that international cooperation will be the clue for the future development of polar science. This is the main topic of discussion at the XXI Annual Meeting of the Council of Managers of Antarctic Programs (COMNAP), especially with increased costs associated with support, logistics and infrastructure necessary to carry out the scientific research in the White Continent.

  • Wednesday, August 5th 2009 - 13:09 UTC

    US military forces in Colombia included in Unasur’s agenda

    Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa is the next Unasur president and has promised strong action regarding US military forces in Colombia and the prevalence of OAS.

    The deployment of US military personnel in Colombian bases and its implication for the region has been included in the agenda of the Union of South American Nations, Unasur, which convenes this week in Quito, Ecuador, according to the country’s Foreign Affairs minister Fander Falconi.

  • Wednesday, August 5th 2009 - 12:58 UTC

    First man on the moon on Falklands cruise next November

    As commander of Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong and co astronaut Edwin Aldrin were the first to successfully touched on lunar soil

    The legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong who landed on the moon 40 years ago, is set to visit the Falkland Islands this coming cruise season. The pioneer who took that first “small step for man” will be aboard the National Geographic Explorer for a 21-day cruise to South Georgia, the Falkland Islands and Antarctica in November.

  • Wednesday, August 5th 2009 - 12:55 UTC

    Morales nightmare: Chile’s “pinochetistas” and Argentine “fascists”

    Bolivia could end up surrounded by the “empire” says Morales

    Bolivian president Evo Morales said he was quite concerned with the possibility that the “Pinochetistas” in Chile and the “fascist right” in Argentina could win the general elections in those countries, according to the country’s government news agency, ABI.

  • Wednesday, August 5th 2009 - 12:50 UTC

    Former Argentine president De la Rúa indicted in bribes case

    A bill to improve the flexibility of the labour market is at the heart of the dispute.

    The Argentine Federal Appeals court has confirmed the indictment of ex-president Fernando de la Rúa in a case linking the former Radical president to the payment of bribes at the Senate in 2000 and which ended with a major political crisis.

  • Wednesday, August 5th 2009 - 12:43 UTC

    Uribe tours South America in support for his military plans with the US

    At his first stop in Peru, Uribe received the support from President García.

    Colombian president Alvaro Uribe is visiting most South American countries to explain the extent of the understanding currently under discussion with Washington and which will enable an increase of US military personnel distributed in several Colombian bases, an initiative which has received strong reactions across the continent.

  • Wednesday, August 5th 2009 - 12:39 UTC

    Lula da Silva boasts Brazil now advises the IMF

    In his daily column the Brazilian president said the country is rapidly recovering from the global crisis.

    President Lula da Silva said that Brazil is climbing out, and strengthened, from the deep global financial crisis and underlined that “Brazil is now advising the International Monetary Fund, IMF”.

  • Wednesday, August 5th 2009 - 07:11 UTC

    Leopard tanks corruption in Chile jails two generals and summons ministers

    The tanks were purchased from Holland where an investigation was also announced by Defense minister Joris Voorhovoe

    Two retired Chilean army officers have been charged with accepting bribes for the purchase of Dutch armoured vehicles in 1998. The men are accused of taking a 600.000 US dollars bribe over the sale of 200 Leopard tanks.