Stories for 2012

Saturday, August 11th 2012 - 11:03 UTC
China only interested in commodities, not in products that reach supermarkets

Trade with China for Argentina has great opportunities but also great threats because the Asian giant is only interested in produce with no added value, warned the head of Argentina’s Industrial Union, Ignacio De Mendiguren.
Saturday, August 11th 2012 - 10:56 UTC
Bill Gates finances research project to improve corn yields

Billionaire computer magnate Bill Gates is to fund a €8m research project into whether cereal crops can be genetically engineered with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
Saturday, August 11th 2012 - 10:49 UTC
Argentina applies tax hike on bio-diesel exports and lowers price for local market

Argentina tightened its grip on the country's energy sector on Friday by ordering a tax hike on bio-diesel exports, a move it said was needed to make domestic fuel prices more affordable, but denied market rumours that it will increase a soybean export tax.
Saturday, August 11th 2012 - 10:45 UTC
Official (fantasy) inflation in Argentina 0.8% in July and 9.9% last 12 months

Official consumer inflation in Argentina reached 0.8% in July accumulating 9.9% in the last twelve months and 5.9% in the first seven months of the year, according to the Indec statistics bureau.
Saturday, August 11th 2012 - 10:36 UTC
Bad day for vulture fund that was after 100 million dollars from Congo

Britain’s Privy Council has ruled that a “vulture fund” cannot collect 100 million dollars from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Newsnight revealed last year that old Congo debts had been illegally sold to FG Hemisphere for 3 million and the fund had then sued in Jersey where they were awarded 100 million.
Saturday, August 11th 2012 - 10:28 UTC
“Amazonas”, first of three ocean patrol vessels built for Brazil leaves UK

Amazonas, the first of three BAE Systems built Ocean Patrol Vessels being delivered the Brazilian Navy, departed the UK for Rio de Janeiro this week after her crew completed a rigorous program of Flag Officer Sea Training with the Royal Navy off the South coast of England
Saturday, August 11th 2012 - 10:23 UTC
Brazil signs contract for the purchase of wheeled armour personnel carriers

The Brazilian Army and Iveco signed this week a contract for the purchase of 86 VBTP MR wheeled armoured personnel carriers known as Guarani. President of Iveco Latin America, Marco Mazzu, said that he was proud to participate in the “renaissance of the defence industry in Brazil”.
Saturday, August 11th 2012 - 10:13 UTC
Attractiveness Survey shows foreign investors remain with great interest in Brazil

A stable economy, a burgeoning domestic market and huge untapped reserves of natural resources have led foreign investors to become increasingly interested in Brazil as an investment destination although there are challenges to sustaining this attractiveness according to Ernst & Young's first annual Brazilian Attractiveness Survey.
Saturday, August 11th 2012 - 10:04 UTC
Paraguay sounding the possibility of joining the Pacific Group

Paraguay is sounding the recently created Pacific Block made up of Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico with the possibility of considering applying to join it, revealed the country’s Foreign affairs minister Jose Fernandez Estigarribia.
Saturday, August 11th 2012 - 07:02 UTC
New strain of swine flu advances in the US Midwest region; 200 cases reported

United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning that a new strain of swine flu is raising concerns as it continues to infect people throughout the Midwest region.