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Stories for April 2001

• Wednesday, April 25th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands Schoolboy Initiates Valuable Publicity.

  Thanks to the initiative of a Stanley schoolboy, the Falklands Islands have enjoyed positive publicity in one of the United Kingdom's best-selling celebrity magazines. Ten-year- old John Didlick wrote to a television personality who featured in last year's documentary “Castaway 200”, Ben Fogle.

• Wednesday, April 25th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Constitutional Debate at Public Meeting

• Tuesday, April 24th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Hot News.

• Tuesday, April 24th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  The Battle of Quebec.

  Having lost the mediatic coverage to the thousands of protestors, violent and non violent, who overrun Quebec, the leaders of the 34 countries of the Americas, virtually besieged in the historic Citadel of French Canada, ratified their commitment to a free trade area, FTAA, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, effective December 2005, and conditioned its members to a “democratic clause”.

• Monday, April 23rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  FIBS Breaking News.

• Monday, April 23rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  US contrary to FAM immunization

  Despite the risk posed by highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease, FAM, US sanitary authorities and the meat industry have so far refused to consider immunizing livestock in the United States.

• Monday, April 23rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Reasonable prospects for Latinamerica.

  World economic growth will abruptly slowdown this year falling to 2,2% from last year's 4%, according to the latest World Bank report. However this hard landing should be softer for Latinamerica GDP which is expected to grow 3,7% in 2001, almost equivalent to last year's 3,8%, and push to 4,4% in 2002.

• Monday, April 23rd 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Shell plans to invest heavily in Tierra del Fuego

  Royal Dutch Shell has selected Tierra del Fuego as its main option to set up a plant to extract liquid fuels from natural gas. The project involves investing 1,5 billion US dollars and will concentrate in elaborating virgin petrol, jet fuel and diesel-oil.

• Saturday, April 21st 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  FIS announces new e-commerce platform in partnership with major Japanese seafood

  In partnership with seven major Japanese seafood companies, Fish Information & Services (FIS) has announced the pending launch of a new electronic seafood commerce system, Fish On line, that will provide buyers and sellers of seafood with a business platform for one of the largest seafood markets in the world.

• Friday, April 20th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Penguin News.