Stories for October 17th 2004

Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

LAN's Enrique Cueto selected CEO of the Year.

Latin Finance magazine citing ten straight years of profits and a whopping 300% jump in stock prices since 2002, has named LAN Chile's Enrique Cueto as its CEO of the Year. The magazine's October 2004 issue ? dedicated to infrastructure investment ? carries a wide-ranging interview with the Chilean airline executive written by Mary Dempsey.

Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Record US trade deficit last August.

Oil prices and China's monetary competitiveness are blamed for the last August 54 billion US dollars trade deficit, the second highest in recent United States history.

Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Paraguay shocked by lack of law and order.

Thousands of Paraguayans took to the streets of the capital Asunción to protest increasing crime following a wave of killings and kidnappings.

Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

Former OAS President Under House Arrest.

A San Jose court on Saturday placed former Costa Rica President and OAS Secretary General Miguel Angel Rodriguez under six months' house arrest while awaiting trial on corruption charges.

Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

'The Patagonian toothfish needs protection'

Environmentalists urged fishing nations to do more to protect the rare Patagonian toothfish, dubbed the “white gold” of the sea which is being driven to extinction by rampant poaching.

Sunday, October 17th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

HMS Cardiff concludes S. Atlantic deployment.

HMS Cardiff returns from South Atlantic deployment next Friday (22/10) having had a West African school named after her. Sierra Leone president Ahmad Kabbah was so impressed with building work carried out at a Freetown school by 100 HMS Cardiff sailors he renamed the institution in their honour.