Stories for February 2007

Monday, February 12th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Asian fungi detected in Argentina soybean cultivation

Argentina detected the presence of dangerous Asian fungi in soybean cultivations in the province of Santa Fe the second oilseed producing area of the country, reported the Agriculture Health and Quality National Service, SENASA.
Monday, February 12th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Several cases of dengue fever on Easter Island

Three new cases of Dengue Fever (DF) were reported last weekend on Easter Island, a Chilean outpost in the South Pacific. Two men and one woman, both native islanders, were found to be infected with the disease.
Monday, February 12th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
WTO praises Argentina but warns about inflation

Argentina has successfully emerged from one of the worst recessions in its history, and the economy has been growing at a fast pace since 2003, according to a World Trade Organization Secretariat report on the trade policies and practices of Argentina released this week.
Monday, February 12th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Brazil promises to eliminate Mercosur inside obstacles

Brazil will continue working to eliminate obstacles which have effects on Mercosur junior members, Uruguay and Paraguay, said the country's Foreign Affairs minister Celso Amorim.
Sunday, February 11th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Falkland Islanders “feel vulnerable” to Argentine pressure

Falkland Islanders “feel vulnerable” to Argentine pressure
The British Embassy in Buenos Aires said the increased political and economic pressure exercised by Argentina on the Falkland Islands has made the Islanders “feel vulnerable”.
Sunday, February 11th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
G 7 demand more exchange rate flexibility for China's Yuan

Finance ministers and bankers from the Group of Seven leading industrialized countries, G7, renewed pressure on China to relax controls over its currency. China promised more flexibility but gave no indication of time or percentages.
Sunday, February 11th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
British tycoon offers price $ 25 million to clean up atmosphere

As if offering flights to space and recently hosting his own reality show were not enough to get British billionaire Sir Richard Branson the publicity he so richly affords, this week he has gone over the heads of environmental leaders everywhere to offer a US$ 25 million prize for the first scientist who can invent an economically viable way to clean carbon from Earth's atmosphere.
Saturday, February 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Emerging markets diversity outpaces JP Morgan

JP Morgan's family of EMBI (Emerging Markets Bond Index) indexes, once seen as the most important measure of aversion to developing countries' risk, no longer expresses the diversity of fast-growing emerging markets, the bank admitted in a report
Saturday, February 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
UK Farmers urge ban on poultry imports

Farmers are calling for a ban on raw imported poultry meat from countries infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus until the cause of the UK outbreak has been established.
Saturday, February 10th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Venezuela - Iran to begin direct flights

Iran's national airline will begin direct flights to Venezuela next month in another sign of the two nations' increasingly close ties.