MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for 2006
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Friday, November 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
China rises bank reserves to cool economy
China's central bank announced Friday it was raising the bank reserve requirement for the third time this year to soak up excess liquidity in the banking system as the nation's trade surplus mounts.
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Friday, November 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Autonomy for Dutch Caribbean territories
The Netherlands has signed an agreement granting autonomy to the Caribbean territories of Curacao and St Maarten.
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Friday, November 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Lan Argentina begins flights to Ushuaia
Lan Chile's affiliate Lan Argentina, announced Friday in Mar del Plata the beginning of flights to Patagonia and Brazil as part of its regional expansion policy.
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Friday, November 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Pulp mills conflict in Summit's unofficial agenda
Argentine pickets took to the roads Friday and blocked bridges leading to Uruguay to protest the building of pulp mills.
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Friday, November 3rd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
WTO chief warns of risks to global free trade
Global free trade talks risk total failure and their collapse would erode faith in the multilateral system on which international commerce depends, warned Pascal Lamy head of the World Trade Organization in an editorial published Friday in The Wall Street Journal.
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Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Melbourne wool sales offer a ray of hope for Falklands farmers
Wool sales held in Melbourne Australia on October 31st saw prices peaking higher than for some years and offered a ray of hope to Falklands farmers.
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Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Decision on Falklands finfish quotas by Executive Council
Falkland Islands Governor, Mr Alan Huckle, reported Wednesday on the local radio station, FIRS, that Executive Council, the South Atlantic archipelago's senior governing body, had approved the methodology for determining applications for Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) and Provisional Quotas (PQs) in the various finfish fisheries.
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Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Panama named for UN seat by Venezuela, Guatemala
Venezuela and Guatemala agreed to abandon their competing bids to win a two-year seat on the UN Security Council, settling on Panama as a compromise candidate.
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Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Bolivia plays off Washington and Venezuela
Just a month after signing a military agreement with Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez Bolivian President Evo Morales entered into an agreement with Chávez' sworn enemy the U.S. military.
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Thursday, November 2nd 2006 - 21:00 UTC
Gibraltar referendum “does not affect Spain's position”
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos has played down the references to self-determination contained in the question that will be put to Gibraltarians at the forthcoming referendum for a new constitution on November 30th.
