Stories for December 21st 2004

Tuesday, December 21st 2004 - 20:00 UTC

US interest rates forecasted to keep rising

United States interest rates will rise consistently during the coming months and well into 2005 according to a survey among Wall Street analysts.

Tuesday, December 21st 2004 - 20:00 UTC

Venezuela promises China more energy

Venezuela plans to increase oil and gas production to satisfy the needs of developing nations like China, Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez said Monday in Caracas.

Tuesday, December 21st 2004 - 20:00 UTC

Chile freezes arms shopping with surplus copper funds

The Chilean Finance Ministry this week ordered the Budget Office to freeze the additional resources generated by the excellent international price of copper and which legally are earmarked for Defence purchases.

Tuesday, December 21st 2004 - 20:00 UTC

Menem arrives in La Rioja Wednesday

Former Argentine president Carlos Menem who resides in Chile, will be returning to his home province of La Rioja this Wednesday following the acceptance by a federal Judge of the proposed bail conditions, reported his nephew Congressman Adrian Menem.

Tuesday, December 21st 2004 - 20:00 UTC

International effort to halt decline of albatross and petrels.

In some species of albatross and petrels, the rate of decline is so serious that extinction is a very real possibility before the year 2050. This was the bald warning issued last week by ornithologist, Dr. Andrew Douse, speaking on the Falkland Islands Radio programme, Conservation Conversation.

Tuesday, December 21st 2004 - 20:00 UTC

Argentina-New Zealand fishery agreement

Argentina's Fisheries and Aquaculture Undersecretary, Gerardo Nieto, and New Zealand's cabinet minister, Hon Peter Hodgson, signed in Buenos Aires last December 17 a fisheries cooperation agreement.