MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for November 2005
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Monday, November 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Uruguay expects 90.000 cruise visitors this season
The 2005/06 cruise season which was officially inaugurated last weekend in Montevideo is expected to generate anywhere between 60 and 80 million US dollars according to Uruguayan authorities.
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Monday, November 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
FTAA aftermath: Mexico Venezuela recall ambassadors
Mexico and Venezuela recalled Monday their ambassadors amid a growing diplomatic row which began during the recent Americas Summit in Argentina and rapidly scaled to a diplomatic conflict when Venezuelan president Chavez called his Mexican counterpart Fox a United States imperialism “puppy”.
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Monday, November 14th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Scientists carry out research at sea aboard FPV Dorada
SCIENTISTS from the Fisheries Department have been reporting on a research cruise they carried out last month.
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Saturday, November 12th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Oil hits lowest price in four months
Crude-oil futures fell to a four-month low yesterday, as speculators continued to liquidate positions.
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Saturday, November 12th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Chile, spring board for Chinese companies in Latam
Chile which is signing a free trade agreement with China next week expects to become the Latinamerican spring board for the Asian giant business in the region.
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Saturday, November 12th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Copper's 7 billion US dollars for Chilean coffers
Over seven billion US dollars will end in the Chilean Treasury in 2005 as a consequence of the booming prices of copper and molybdenum, with Codelco, the government owned company providing 5,3 billion US dollars.
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Saturday, November 12th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Avian influenza pandemic could cost 800 billion
A pandemic of avian influenza among humans could cost the global economy 800 billion US dollars a year. That's the assessment of Milan Brahmbhatt, a senior economist with the World Bank's East Asia and Pacific region.
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Saturday, November 12th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Petrobras record earnings and rising extraction costs
Brazilian government owned Oil Company Petrobras announced Friday a record high third-quarter net profit on a rise in output and fuel prices. Net consolidated profit was the equivalent of 2.6 billion US dollars, below market estimates, plus signs of rising oil extraction costs.
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Saturday, November 12th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
Hezbollah denies Buenos Aires bombing
The Lebanese branch of the Shiite Hezbollah group, allegedly supported by Iran, denied any participation in the attack on the Buenos Aires Jewish community centre AMIA and also denied that militant Ibrahim Hussein Berro was involved in the action.
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Friday, November 11th 2005 - 20:00 UTC
WTO Hong Kong accord delayed until early 2006
World Trade Organization Secretary General Paul Lamy defended Thursday the decision to delay until early next year a global free trade agreement warning that “the risk of failure was too great”.
