Stories for 2001 , page 44

Tuesday, April 17th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

Peso as strong as the Euro and the dollar

Argentina's super Economy minister Domingo Cavallo has once again shaken financial markets with his latest initiative: changing the current convertibility system of one Argentine peso-one US dollar, by making it extensive to one Euro.

Monday, April 16th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

Uruguayan president in Japan

Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle and a numerous delegation of businessmen are currently in Japan promoting trade and investments.

Monday, April 16th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

Preliminary list of Electors published

Friday, April 13th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

Desire Petroleum PLC - Additional Listing

Desire Petroleum plc announces that it has raised #450,000 (net of expenses)by way of a placing for cash of new ordinary shares of 1p each at 14.5p pershare.

Friday, April 13th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

Air 2000 Ordered to Land

Thursday, April 12th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

Penguin News.

Wednesday, April 11th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

Baby Thomas - Falklands Adventurer.Off on his travels before he was born!

Baby Thomas is a Falkland Islander who has never set foot in the Falkland Islands. He is the son of Stanley resident, Andrez Short, and school teacher Alison Davies, who taught for several years in Stanley Junior School, and was briefly a fisheries inspectorate observer, flying with FIGAS ( Falklands Government Air Service).

Wednesday, April 11th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

“Military operation are our priority”

The Commander British Forces Falkland Islands, Air Commodore John Cliffe, has told a concerned Islands population that despite the recent withdrawal of British troops from the Island of South Georgia, ?we will go back and land troops from time to time on exercise, to show that we can reinforce rapidly if the need arises'.

Tuesday, April 10th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

Mercosur agrees, but?..