MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 2005
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Tuesday, August 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Record winter season in Chile's ski resorts
The tourism winter season in Chile has been described as the best in the last five years with a significant jump in the number of foreign visitors, reported Oscar Santelices head of the Chilean Tourist Office, Sernatur.
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Tuesday, August 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil's ruling party housecleaning operation aborted
The man hand-picked by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to restore trust in the ruling Workers Party (PT) amid Brazil's worst political scandal in more than a decade announced Monday that he will not seek re-election as party chairman next month.
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Tuesday, August 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Squid ban extended for the rest of the season
The Argentine Federal Fisheries Council (CFP) unanimously decided to keep the ban on squid (Illex argentinus) north of parallel 44º South for the rest of the season ”given the poor performance of the Buenos Aires-North Patagonian Stock (SBNP) cruise survey and maturity assessment”.
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Tuesday, August 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
France insists with air ticket tax to fight poverty
France is planning to launch a tax on airline tickets next year to help finance the global fight against poverty, President Jacques Chirac said on Monday.
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Tuesday, August 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
France Compiles Blacklist for Airlines
Reacting to the “black month” of August France published a list of airlines that aren't allowed to fly its airspace, thus beating European regulators to the punch.
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Tuesday, August 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Antarctica tremors help prove Earth's two speed rotation
Tremors occurred in the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica and detected by seismometers near Fairbanks, Alaska helped elucidate a decades' long geophysics controversy regarding the Earth's rotation and magnetic field.
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Tuesday, August 30th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
New chapter for Mercosur-EU negotiations
The European Union and Mercosur will attempt to resume negotiations for a political association and free trade agreement, which have been stalled since October 2004, in next Friday's ministerial meeting to be held in Brussels.
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Monday, August 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Ozone layer hole over Antarctica growing
The winter hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica appears to have grown from last year but is still smaller than in 2003, when it was at its largest, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Tuesday.
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Monday, August 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Pemex, leading oil company in the Americas
Mexico government owned Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) is the world's third-largest oil company in terms of production, and Mexico ranks sixth among oil producing countries, according to the company's 2005 statistical report.
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Monday, August 29th 2005 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina-Chile standing joint force for peace operations
The Chilean and Argentine Armed Forces are considering the creation of a standing combined force for peace operations with a joint command, announced Chilean Defence minister Jaime Ravinet who is hosting his Argentine counterpart Jose Pampuro.
