MercoPress https://en.mercopress.com/ South Atlantic News Agency en Copyright 2024, MercoPress. https://en.mercopress.com/web/img/en/mercopress-logo.gif MercoPress http://en.mercopress.com/ <![CDATA[British business sizes up global trade wins as Malaysia and Chile join Indo-Pacific bloc]]> Greg Hands MP. UK Minister of State for Trade Policy, great news for UK businesses Malaysia and Chile have officially joined the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), meaning British businesses will get better access and lower tariffs in the Malaysian and Chilean markets when the UK joins the dynamic trade bloc.

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Wed, 08 Feb 2023 19:55:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Fewer Chileans would reject new Constitution; still not enough]]> If the new text is rejected, the government would still push for a new Constitution as per the people's mandate from Oct. 25, 2020, Vallejo explained A new survey released Sunday in Santiago showed that the number of Chileans who would approve the new Constitution is on the rise against the rejection group, while President Gabriel Boric Font's approval rating has slightly from a slump just a few months after his inauguration.

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Mon, 18 Jul 2022 07:03:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Chilean president Boric makes strong call for unity and anticipates his four years “won't be easy”]]> “This is the first time I'm addressing you as president...Thank you for granting me that honor...it is an emotion I need to share with you...” Chilean president Gabriel Boric on Friday evening stepped out to the balcony of Government House (La Moneda) to address the thousands of people cheering him in the ample plaza. It was his first speech as president to the people, and he made a strong call to unity, acknowledging that his job in the coming four years “would not be easy”.

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Sat, 12 Mar 2022 06:36:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Chile is to become a “regional, multinational and intercultural State”, according to the new constitution]]> “The State will promote cooperation, harmonic integration and the adequate and fair development among the different territorial entities”. Chile is to be defined in the future as a “Regional State, multinational and intercultural” according to the draft approved on Friday afternoon by the constitutional convention that is discussing the new constitution for the country.

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Sat, 19 Feb 2022 09:59:00 GMT
<![CDATA[The Battle for Boric's Soul]]> In the first round, Boric allied with a heterogeneous group comprising the Communist Party, the so-called Broad Front, and various environmental, feminist, and LGBTQ groups. By Jorge Castañeda - Chile has long been something of a bellwether in Latin America. So, when Chilean voters elected the left-wing Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old former student leader, as president on Sunday, the rest of Latin America wanted to know: What does this mean for Chile – and for us?

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Tue, 04 Jan 2022 06:54:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Biden congratulates Chilean president elect and both leaders agree on an agenda of issues to discuss]]> Biden “applauded Chile’s free and fair elections as a powerful example to the region and the world”. United States president Joe Biden on Thursday contacted Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric to congratulate him on his electoral victory on 21 December and to talk about future collaboration and cooperation between the two countries.

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Fri, 31 Dec 2021 18:34:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Chile's Parliament okays same-sex marriage]]> It is now up to President Piñera to sign it into law Chile's Congress Tuesday passed the bill making it the eighth Latin American country where same-sex marriage is legal, after Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and in several states of Mexico.

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Tue, 07 Dec 2021 18:49:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Chile starts vaccinating kids aged 6-11 at schools]]> 4th, 5th and 8th grade kids have been wrongly vaccinated (Pic AFP) Mass vaccination against COVID-19 of over 1.5 million Chilean schoolchildren aged 6 to 11 has kicked off Monday, it was reported. Chilean authorities have also confirmed Sinovac's drug CoronaVac is to be administered but only to those children who have parental consent.

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Mon, 27 Sep 2021 13:55:00 GMT
<![CDATA[Vaccination of children aged 6 to 12 starts in Chile with Coronavac]]> Chile decided to go ahead with vaccination, despite Britain's  JCVI advising against it Chile's health authorities have started vaccinating children aged between 6 and 12 against COVID-19 with the Chinese Coronavac drug to keep up the country's high immunization rate, which is among the most prolific worldwide.

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Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:55:00 GMT
<![CDATA[LATAM must reimburse boarding fees to travelers who did not fly]]> The amounts retained by LATAM include some 4.400 million Chilean pesos and US$ 565,000 for international boarding fees. LATAM will have to reimburse boarding fees to all those consumers who purchased air tickets and for different reasons were unable to travel. The decision is a Collective Voluntary Procedure from the Chilean National Consumer Service, Sernac and is estimated to benefit some 400,000 consumers involving some 600 million dollars.

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Sun, 05 Sep 2021 06:46:00 GMT