Stories for March 29th 2005

Tuesday, March 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

Brazil: “No longer to subordinate to IMF”

Brazil announced Monday that it will not renew the stand-by credit agreement it signed with the IMF in September 2002 because the good shape of the national economy makes it superfluous

Tuesday, March 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

NZ bugs to help contain invasive species

Punta Arenas Agriculture and Livestock Laboratory, following on a New Zealand experience, are considering the biological control of a weed that is proving particularly harmful for Magallanes Region grassland.

Tuesday, March 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

Chilean leader calls for more flexible OAS

Chile's socialist president has called for a radical overhaul of the Organisation of American States, saying the most important regional organisation in the Americas must be “faster, more responsive and more flexible”.

Tuesday, March 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

Government defines procedures to ensure onshore squid processing

The Argentine Undersecretariat of Fisheries and Aquaculture has established a series of control procedures for companies holding squid (Illex argentinus) licences to fish in the Argentine fishing ground, chiefly aimed at ensuring a minimum onshore processing of the resource.

Tuesday, March 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

Quake panics Asia; 2,000 feared dead

A powerful earthquake struck off Indonesia's west coast late Monday, killing scores of people whose homes collapsed on them and spreading panic across the Indian Ocean that another killer tsunami was on the way. Indonesia's vice president predicted up to 2,000 deaths

Tuesday, March 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

Mrs. Kirchner to run in Bs. Aires

Government sources yesterday leaked the news that first lady Cristina Fernández has finally decided to run for national senator for the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina's largest electoral district, in the October 23 midterm elections.

Tuesday, March 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

Duhalde calls for an emancipated, united South America

Eduardo Duhalde president of the Mercosur Permanent Representatives Commission called on the South American block country members to keep advancing in the consolidation of common institutions, “the creation of new ones”, and invited to make effective the dream of “an emancipated South America”, growing in unity.

Tuesday, March 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

Councillors in EU OCT ministerial meeting in Tahiti

Two Falkland Islands Councillors will be participating at the European Union Overseas Countries & Territories EU meeting in Tahiti, French Polynesia scheduled for this week. Ian Hansen and Mike Summers left the Islands last Saturday.