MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for June 2003
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Friday, June 20th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Penguin News Update
Headlines: Affordable port upgrade can be reality say experts; Bank news:SCB tighten up; Sukey's MBE; Teenagers 'bag the peaks' in memory of 1982 fallen.
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Friday, June 20th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Strong Earthquake Rocks Chile
A strong earthquake rocked north central Chile Friday, damaging houses but causing no injuries, authorities said.
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Thursday, June 19th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil reduces basic interest rate.
After two days of deliberations Brazil's Central Bank Monetary Policy Committee, COPOM, reduced the Selic basic interest rate half a point to 26%. The much expected announcement was interpreted as a clear signal that after almost a year of persistent steady prices, inflation had reached its inflexion point and has began a moderate slide.
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Thursday, June 19th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Mercosur target: single market by 2006.
Under the undisputed leadership of Brazil and Argentina, Mercosur members, associate members Chile and Bolivia, and as special guest Venezuela, the South American trade block celebrated the XXIVth presidential summit in Asunción, Paraguay with the commitment to strengthen the political agenda and expand regional integration creating a genuine single market by 2006.
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Wednesday, June 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Fisheries Hot News.
Headlines:
Mar del Plata benefits from lack of squid in the south; Japan and Peru at odds over squid licences; Galician jiggers set eyes on Greenland; Chile and China discuss high seas fishing. -
Wednesday, June 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Mercosur takes a step towards free trade pact talks with India.
Mercosur foreign ministers have signed the draft of a negotiating protocol they hope will eventually lead to a mutually beneficial free-trade pact between the South American trade bloc and India.
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Wednesday, June 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Falkland Is. Government makes donation to Oxfam.
Falkland Islands Government (FIG) donates £1,000 to Oxfam GB in support of the charity's work in Iraq, continuing its pledge to help relieve human suffering and crisis situations around the world.
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Wednesday, June 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Brazilian president awarded Prince of Asturias prize
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was named Wednesday as this year's winner of the Prince of Asturias Prize for International Cooperation, the latest individual to be honored by the Hispanic world's equivalent of the Nobels.
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Wednesday, June 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
UK dismisses sovereignty discussions.
The United Kingdom dismissed any attempt by the new Argentine government to reopen sovereignty discussions over the Falkland Islands.
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Wednesday, June 18th 2003 - 21:00 UTC
Breaking News.
Headlines:
FTAA timetable in doubt;
Ample support for President Kirchner;
Buenos Aires and Montevideo among the cheapest cities.
