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Stories for September 2005

• Tuesday, September 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Australia arrests Cambodian flagged toothfish poacher

  Australia arrested a Cambodian long-liner suspected of fishing illegally in sub-Antarctic waters which was later discovered to have 130 tons of Patagonian toothfish in the haul. The armed Australian patrol Oceanic Viking escorted Saturday the 76 metre, 2,145 tons Cambodian-flagged FV Taruman to port in Hobart in Tasmania, said Australian Fisheries Minister Ian Macdonald.

• Tuesday, September 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  G-10 bankers committed to keep inflation “low”

  The Central Banks of the ten leading industrial countries of the world warned that the strong surge in oil prices will slow global economic growth.

• Tuesday, September 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  UN: Illegal fishing and tourism threaten Antarctica

  Substantial increases in illegal fishing, tourism, bio-prospecting, climate change and depletion of the ozone continue to pose major challenges to the Antarctic, and governments should continue to make major efforts to secure the area as a natural reserve, says United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

• Tuesday, September 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  The importance of information technology for self determination

  Gibraltar opposition spokesman Charles Bruzon told the Small Countries conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meeting in Fiji that one day all remaining British colonies shall take their place in the Commonwealth as fully self-governing territories.

• Tuesday, September 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  HMS Southampton in South Atlantic patrol

  HMS Southampton has replaced HMS Portland as the South Atlantic patrol and is expected to arrive in the Falkland Islands this month.

• Tuesday, September 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil, Venezuela interested in Scorpone submarines

  The head of a French defence contractor Thales said the group expects Brazil, Venezuela and Singapore to become the next buyers of the Scorpene class conventional submarine jointly manufactured by France and Spain.

• Monday, September 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine Illex landings doubled but not enough “to compensate”

  The Argentine Illex squid season was over before the calendar date but “it was far better than in 2004, almost double catches and with a real tempting commercial price increase close to 100%”, said Hugo Stecconi, vice-president of the Argentine Jiggers Chamber and head of Pesquera Madryn.

• Monday, September 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazilian vice-president promises loyalty to Lula

  Brazilian vice-president Jose Alencar said he was ready to take office if president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was impeached on corruption charges and censored. In that case the first thing I would do “is change the current monetary policy”, said Mr. Alencar in an interview published Sunday in the influential Folha de Sao Paulo.

• Monday, September 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Chavez in Columbia University forum

  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez will be one of the star participants of a forum of world leaders organized by Columbia University next September 19.

• Monday, September 12th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Chilean Army says 1973 coup is “a closed matter”

  Chilean Army Commander in chief General Juan Emilio Cheyre said that as far as the Army was concerned “the matter of September 11 is closed” referring to the September 11, 1973 bloody coup which installed the military regime of General Augusto Pinochet.