Stories for 2008

Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Rice consumption forecasted to outpace production in 2008

World consumption of rice continues to rise and outpace production and the trend will continue in 2008, bringing with it a host of factors that will impact rice producers said Carl Brothers senior vice president of Riceland Foods.
Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina: 30.4% (10.8 m) live below the poverty line

Higher food and fuel prices plunged 1.3 million Argentines below the poverty line in 2007, which means the income of 10.8 million Argentines is not enough to cover the costs of the basic food basket, according to a paper from the Buenos Aires think tank Sociedad de Estudios Laborales, SEL.
Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
IMF Board supports overhaul and shift in voting power

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recommended on Friday an overhaul of the institution's governance structure that will realign quota and voting shares of member countries with their relative weight and role in the global economy thus enhancing the participation and voice of emerging market and low-income countries in the 185-member IMF.
Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Vietnam limits rice exports; China boosts pay to farmers

Vietnam became the latest rice-producing country to limit exports of the grain and China announced on Friday higher payments to farmers both rice and wheat in an attempt to boost crop production and cool surging inflate
Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
First time Uruguay's coalition looses lead to opposition

The latest public opinion poll to be released in Uruguay shows that if national elections were to be held this Sunday, the sum of votes from opposition parties would be just enough to defeat the Socialist oriented ruling coalition.
Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
FIDAE 2008, largest aerospace fair opens in Santiago

Chilean president Michelle Bachelet will inaugurate Monday the fifteenth edition of the International Air & Space Fair, FIDAE, Latinamerica largest air show and one of the leading exhibitions of the industry in the world.
Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Buenos Aires Mayor blames Kirchners for farmers' lockout

Buenos Aires City conservative Mayor Mauricio Macri blamed Argentina's farmers lockout on the government of President Cristina Kirchner and, in what seemed a reference to her and her husband and predecessor Néstor Kirchner, he criticized “those who seek eternal power”.
Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
France increasingly involved in release of Colombian hostages

Colombia thanked France for having displayed on stand by a medical evacuation aircraft to receive, in case she's released, ailing French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt kidnapped by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, FARC over six years ago.
Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Muslims outnumber Catholics worldwide reveals Vatican

Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday. Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2% of the world's population and Catholics 17.4%.
Sunday, March 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Mrs. Kirchner forced to cancel meeting with PM Brown

Argentina's president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner cancelled her coming trip to Great Britain because of the worsening of the farmers' 17 days conflict. Mrs. Kirchner was expecting to talk about Argentina's Falklands' claims in London.