Stories for April 2008

Friday, April 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Uruguay considering food price subsidies to contain inflation

Uruguay's March consumer price index CPI jumped 1.14%, the highest since last August and fourth running in the past six months, according to the latest release from the Statistics Office. Government officials expressed concern but cautioned that “consumer inflation has become a challenge all over the world”.
Friday, April 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Diversified markets have cut Brazil's exposure to US crisis

Brazil's Foreign Secretary Celso Amorim said that those countries which have signed free trade agreement with United States are the most vulnerable to the consequences of the US housing and banking crisis, contrary to Brazil that has “diversified markets”.
Friday, April 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Darwin guesthouse, linked to Falklands' history is for sale

A FALKLANDS guesthouse, situated less than fifteen minutes walk from the site where the bloody battle for Goose Green took place in 1982, is on the market.
Friday, April 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

Headlines: Happy Birthday RAF!; Blind runner embarks upon marathon challenge; Who will get oil money?; Man jailed; Credits in question; Woken with a bang; Dream heralds end of season.
Friday, April 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Heathrow “chaos” T5 cost B Airways loss of 2.8% pax in March

The London Heathrow airport Terminal 5 debacle hit British Airways' monthly passenger figures for March 2008. Despite the benefit of an early Easter, BA carried just fewer than 2.72 million passengers last month, a 2.8% dip on the March 2007 total according to reports in the British press.
Friday, April 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Brazil plan to increase wheat production and cut imports

Brazil announced drastic plans to increase wheat production and cut its dependency on imported grain mainly from Argentina. The target is by 2012 to supply 60% of the domestic market. Brazil currently imports 80% of the wheat consumed by its population of 186 million.
Friday, April 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Antarctica tour operators meeting in Punta del Este

The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators, IAATA, will be holding its19th Annual General Meeting in Punta del Este, Uruguay from April 28 to May first. The changing industry and challenges, particularly environmental and safety will figure top of the agenda.
Thursday, April 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Kirchners Malvinas message: no war and no Winnie the Pooh

On the 26th anniversary of the beginning of the Falklands war, now renamed the Day of the Malvinas war veteran, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner renewed calls for sovereignty over the South Atlantic Islands and emphasized that the Malvinas claim is “unflagging”.
Thursday, April 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC
World rice production forecasted to increase 1.8% in 2008

UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has predicted that world rice production is expected to rise by 12 million metric tonnes or 1.8% in 2008, assuming normal weather.
Thursday, April 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Real too strong, warn Brazil's panel of “wise-economists”

Brazil's central bank must keep the benchmark interest rate unchanged for the time being and avert increases that would further strengthen the Real and derail an economic expansion, said two economic advisers of President Lula da Silva according to reports in the Sao Paulo financial press.