Stories for July 2011

Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 13:22 UTC
South Georgia set of stamps to celebrate marriage of Prince William and Kate

A set of three stamps, a beautiful souvenir sheet-let and two first day covers will be released by South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands on July 25th to mark the recent Royal Wedding, reports the June edition of the South Georgia Newsletter.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 13:16 UTC
Northeast Brazil invests in wind energy, operational by December 2012

Denmark-based Vestas has secured an order from a consortium created by Brennand Energia and Companhia Hidro Eletrica do Sao Francisco in the north east of Brazil to supply turbines with a total capacity of 90MW for three wind energy projects.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 13:12 UTC
Chile debates how to avoid repeat of the deadly ISA that devastated the salmon industry

Fear of yet another outbreak of Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) — an infectious viral disease found in Atlantic salmon — has sparked new debate in Chile’s salmon industry about what kind of regulatory safeguards are most needed.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 06:05 UTC
Brazil to cut ethanol content in gasoline to ease pressure on sugar market

Brazil will reduce the ethanol content in gasoline in another effort to contain inflation since sugar (and ethanol) prices because of a poor crop have been soaring, according to the Sao Paulo press.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:59 UTC
Argentine economic activity expands 8.1% in May; 8.9% in five months

Economic activity in Argentina expanded 8.1% in May over a year ago and 8.9% in the first five months of the year according to the country’s Statistics and Census Office, Indec.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:48 UTC
British Airways: ‘World’s favourite airline’ grows in South America

Over sixty five years ago, British South American Airways (BSAA) began flying to South America. The flights, which began in March 1946, were via Lisbon, Bathurst, Natal, Rio de Janiero and Montevideo, before landing in Buenos Aires, 35 hours later. The aircraft: an Avro Lancastrian. How times have changed.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:38 UTC
Falklands’ third appraisal oil well results should be known by end of August

Falklands’ Rockhopper Exploration, the oil and gas explorer, pressed ahead with its hunt for oil in the North Falklands with the drilling of its third appraisal well on the Sea Lion Discovery feature last week.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:12 UTC
Paraguay wants Argentina to pay better prices for power from shared dam

The presidency of the Paraguayan delegation at the Mercosur Parliament, Parlasur called on Argentina to improve the ‘reduced’ price it currently pays for surplus power from the shared hydroelectric dam of Yacyretá.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:06 UTC
Parliament to question PM Cameron on links with the Murdoch empire

British PM David Cameron cut short a trip to Africa and will fly home on Tuesday to defend himself from a scandal that has battered Rupert Murdoch's media empire, forced British police chiefs to resign and raised doubts about the prime minister's judgment.
Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:01 UTC
Jewish community complains lack of progress in AMIA bombing investigation

Seventeen years after 85 people died and hundreds were injured in Argentina's worst terrorist attack, their relatives criticized both Iran and their own government Monday for failing to solve the case.