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Stories for 2006

• Tuesday, June 20th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine fishing company pleads guilty

  Estremar SA, an Argentine company formerly known as ASC South America SA, last week pleaded guilty to violating federal anti-fish and wildlife trafficking law by importing and attempting to sell Patagonian toothfish, often marketed by the trade name Chilean seabass, without the documentation required to show it was legally harvested.

• Tuesday, June 20th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Kirchner of business trip to Spain

  Argentine president Nestor Kirchner begins Wednesday an official visit to Spain expected to the dominated by business discussions.

• Tuesday, June 20th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  EU admits “slight room” for concessions in trade talks

  The European Union's Agriculture Commissioner said the EU still had ??slight room'' to offer more concessions in key world trade talks if others, notably the United States, were also ready to compromise more to open up agricultural markets.

• Tuesday, June 20th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Number of millionaires jumped to 8.7 million in 2005

  The number of millionaires around the world rose to 8.7 million over the past year, fueled by a sharp increase in emerging markets such as South Korea, India and Russia, showed a survey released this week.

• Tuesday, June 20th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  New York the politest city; London half courteous

  Brazil's Sao Paulo the second most populated city in Latinamerica, figures as the most polite megapolis in the region according to a good manners survey which rated New York in first place.

• Tuesday, June 20th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Optimism returns for Mercosur presidential summit

  What was forecasted to be a diplomatic flop only a month ago has turned dramatically in the last week and now promises to be a huge success: next month's Mercosur presidential summit in Cordoba, Argentina.

• Monday, June 19th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay: Botnia speeds up work

  The Finnish firm Botnia is planning to hire some 2,000 new workers in the coming weeks, as it speeds the construction of a mammoth paper pulp plant in the Uruguayan town of Fray Bentos, a news report in Montevideo said yesterday.

• Sunday, June 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Peruvian elected president invited to Chile this week

  Peruvian elected president Alan Garcia will be visiting Chile next Thursday specially invited by his counterpart Michelle Bachelet.

• Sunday, June 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine government taking back airports

  The Argentine government has given a first long stride to recover control over the country's 32 main airports which for the last eight years have been under private administration, Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, AA2000, belonging to businessman Eduardo Eurnekian.

• Sunday, June 18th 2006 - 21:00 UTC

  President Bachelet first 100 days in office

  Chilean president Michelle Bachelet celebrates Sunday her first 100 days in office and can feel satisfied since most of the 36 measures she promised for this period have been accomplished, according to the Chilean press.