MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for October 2003
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Monday, October 27th 2003 - 20:00 UTC
HMS Endurance: Furthest South.
Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Endurance is about to venture further south than ever before.
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Sunday, October 26th 2003 - 20:00 UTC
South Atlantic cooperation main topic in ABC
Virtually unnoticed by the Argentine press the Argentine British Conference, Buenos Aires 2003 edition, took off Saturday morning in the Argentine Council for International Relations, CARI, with former British Defence Secretary Michael Portillo giving participating in the opening conference, “Developments since the last ABC in 2000”.
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Thursday, October 23rd 2003 - 20:00 UTC
Chile linked to the world's main trade blocks
Following the approval this Wednesday by the Chilean Senate of the Free Trade Treaty with United States that was signed last June, Chilean Foreign Affairs Minister Soledad Alvear underlined that the “ratification of the treaty means the job has been done”.
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Thursday, October 23rd 2003 - 20:00 UTC
Fisheries News
Brazil seeks investors in South Korea; Chile claims Spain is over catching swordfish; Koreans, world's main consumers of seafood; Online auctions in Galicia by 2005.
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Thursday, October 23rd 2003 - 20:00 UTC
Repsol-YPF to increase investments in Patagonia
Repsol-YPF announced in Buenos Aires that the Spanish-Argentine consortium has plans to invest the equivalent of 750 million US dollars in the coming fiscal year in further exploration and exploitation in the continental shelf of Patagonia.
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Thursday, October 23rd 2003 - 20:00 UTC
US warns China on trade
United States Trade Representative Robert Zoellick who this week visited Beijing, threatened China with closing US markets to Chinese exports if local authorities do not begin with strong reciprocity actions towards American exports.
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Thursday, October 23rd 2003 - 20:00 UTC
IMF praises Brazil but unemployment remains strong
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, praised Brazil this week for its achievements, “exceeding the most optimistic expectations” of the multilateral organization. However Brazil has not yet hinted whether it will renew a 30,4 billion US dollars stand-by credit line agreed in September 2002.
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Wednesday, October 22nd 2003 - 20:00 UTC
“Mare Australis” in Punta Arenas.
Chilean vessel “Mare Australis” with 180 passengers from 13 different countries called in Punta Arenas last Saturday for the second cruise of the season and late in the evening with a similar number of tourists left for the weekly tour of the region.
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Wednesday, October 22nd 2003 - 20:00 UTC
Blame it on VAT.
An overall favourable reaction to Chile's economic prospects, both of the country and individually, was recorded in the latest opinion poll released by the Business Department of the University of Chile.
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Wednesday, October 22nd 2003 - 20:00 UTC
Record US budget deficit.
The United States budget deficit for the financial year ended September 30 reached a new historic record: 374,2 billion US dollars, double the 2002 deficit and greater that the 1992 all time record of 290 billion US dollars.
