Borders & Southern Petroleum plc (AIM: BOR), the international oil and gas exploration and production business, announces preliminary results for the year ended 30 June 2005.
Mercosur members would be in disadvantage if the Free Trade Areas of the Americas, FTAA, project became effective in the current conditions, alleges a report from the Argentine economic consultant Ecolatina released this week.
Venezuela in the middle of a serious diplomatic rift with Mexico decided at last minute to skip a regional security conference in Ecuador involving top military officers from the Andean Community as well as the United States and Brazil.
The Brazilian Attorney General's Office will file corruption charges against Finance Minister Antonio Palocci, reported Tuesday Correio Brasilienze in Brasilia.
Mercosur Foreign Affairs ministers meeting in Montevideo Tuesday conditioned advances in overall trade negotiations to the dismantling of agriculture protectionism and elimination of farm subsidies.
Mexico said it will withdraw its ambassador and severe diplomatic ties with Venezuela if that country's President, Hugo Chavez, doesn't apologize Monday for warning Mexican leader Vicente Fox: Don't mess with me.
The Andean countries began this Monday a new round of talks, (hopefully definitive) with United States with the purpose of reaching a free trade agreement similar to the recently signed by the US with Central America or Cafta.
With his public opinion approval ratings at its lowest since taking office, United States President George Bush began Monday a week-long tour of Asia that will take him to Japan, South Korea, the annual Pacific-Asia summit, China and Mongolia.
Greenpeace claims 90% of the Amazon lumber was illegally timbered and at least one third was consumed by the Brazilian government.
Higher oil prices have so far had limited effect on international tourism growth according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (WTO) which estimates 2005 will end with a 5/6% international tourist arrivals increase.