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Stories for January 11th 2005

  • Tuesday, January 11th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

    Red Ensign Conference in Falklands next month.

    The Red Ensign Conference, an annual event, which brings together in a series of meetings those British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, which have shipping registers and the UK Maritime and Coast Guard Agency, will be held for the first time in the Falkland Islands next month.

  • Tuesday, January 11th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

    Argentina: Fisheries News

    Headlines:
    Controversial hake quota allocation; Fishing exports generated USD 742 million up to December 2004.

  • Tuesday, January 11th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

    Govt. ratifies gas exports thru end-2005, but price uncertain.

    Bolivian authorities have agreed to extend natural gas exports to Argentina until December this year, but left the price negotiation up to Bolivia's state oil company YPFB and private gas producers, newspapers reported.

  • Tuesday, January 11th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

    Flag tramplers free on bail and without passports.

    A Briton, an Australian and a South African arrested and jailed for trampling and trashing an Argentine flag in a Ushuaia pub were released on bail but they had to hand in their passports and will have to remain in the city until February when the Judiciary resumes activities.

  • Tuesday, January 11th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

    French scientist warns of potential fault areas

    The Mediterranean, Caribbean and the South Atlantic have geological systems “almost identical” to the Sumatra fault line which caused the seaquake of last December 26, according to a French scientist interviewed by the “Le Parisien-Dimanche”.

  • Tuesday, January 11th 2005 - 20:00 UTC

    Tory alternative to EU fishing policy

    Shadow fisheries spokes-man Owen Paterson said the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) should be scrapped as it had wrecked the marine environment, fishing communities and the industry.