Stories for September 2007

Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Oil exploring in Falklands prepares for “exciting” 2008

Borders & Southern Petroleum PLC, the Falkland Islands oil explorer, said its first half to end-June pretax loss narrowed to £117,158 from £182,010 saying the next year would be “exciting” as it evaluated the area covered by its production licences.
Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Royal Marines back in the Falklands for Exercise Commando Strike

Forty British Royal Marines Reserve (RMR) Commandos from RMR Merseyside are heading back to the Falkland Islands next week 25 years on from the original South Atlantic conflict.
Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
European Strauss-Kahn selected to lead IMF by ample “consensus”

Former French finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn was selected September 28 as the new Managing Director of the IMF. The IMF Executive Board said it selected Strauss-Kahn, 58, by consensus to succeed Rodrigo de Rato for a five-year term beginning November 1.
Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
UN Standing Police Capacity officers to train in UK

Officers from the United Nations Standing Police Capacity will undergo two weeks of training in transitional justice and other aspects of peacekeeping at the top police leadership centre in the United Kingdom from 8-19 October ahead of deployment to their first mission, revealed senior UN Police officers in New York.
Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine energy shortage repeat for Chilean mines

Mining leaders in Chile indicated to local press this week that their industry is bracing for energy shortages in the coming year
Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
United Kingdom main market for booming Chilean wine industry

Chile's wine and fish exports for the first eight months of 2007 increased a significant 34% and 12% respectively compared to the same period last year.
Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
UN: oil and gas reserves competition becoming tougher

The emergence of new players in the global market and shifts in the policies of gas and oil producers means that traditional conglomerates from industrialized nations are facing increasing competition in the race to access the world's reserves, revealed the United Nations agency on trade and development issues.
Friday, September 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Inequality, greatest threat to global stability warns UK

Inequality is one of the greatest threats to global stability and prosperity, the United Kingdom's Foreign Minister told the General Assembly, issuing a call to industrialized nations to meet their commitments on aid, genuinely reform the international terms of trade and play their part in tackling climate change.
Thursday, September 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Magallanes Rockhopper population reaches 316 thousand

Scientists reported this week that the population of Southern Rockhopper penguins on Isla Noir, in southern Chile, the most important colony for the Eudyptes chrysocom family in all of South America, has risen to 316 thousand. Environmentalists stressed the importance of this increase in population, especially in light of the drop in the species' population in previous decades.
Thursday, September 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC
Sao Paulo holds Kyoto Protocol “carbon market” auction

A bank from the Netherlands has emerged as the winning bidder in an auction which marks a new phase in the global “carbon market” reports the BBC. Fortis Bank has paid more than 13m Euros for the rights to emit 800,000 tons of carbon dioxide, in the first such auction to be held in a regulated exchange, the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F