Stories for 2013

Thursday, July 11th 2013 - 07:22 UTC
Falklands: Ambassador Castro renews sovereignty claims and blasts the US for spying

Argentine ambassador to the United Kingdom Alicia Castro renewed Argentina’s sovereignty claims over the Falkland Islands and put the Edward Snowden spy row on London’s table: “We are free nations that neither need nor want to be spied on,” Castro warned.
Thursday, July 11th 2013 - 07:14 UTC
After twenty years of negotiations US opens its market to Uruguayan citrus

After almost twenty years of negotiations United States confirmed the opening of its market to citrus from Uruguay, which will become effective next 9 August when certain coordination and logistics tasks are coordinated by both countries.
Thursday, July 11th 2013 - 07:08 UTC
Eight times Manhattan island iceberg breaks off from Antarctic glacier

Pine Island Glacier (PIG), the longest and fastest flowing glacier in the Antarctic, has spawned a huge iceberg. The block measures about 720 sq km in area - roughly eight times the size of Manhattan Island in New York.
Thursday, July 11th 2013 - 07:04 UTC
China blesses Taiwan economic accords if ‘one-China’ policy is respected

China accepts that Taiwan signs economic cooperation agreements with other countries as long as they are not political and those countries do not interfere with the ‘one China policy’ which considers the island a province part of the nation, and not two nations as defended by Taipei.
Thursday, July 11th 2013 - 06:58 UTC
One third of world’s population benefits from effective tobacco control measure

At 2.3 billion, the number of people worldwide covered by at least one life-saving measure to limit tobacco use has more than doubled in the last five years, according to the WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2013. The number of people covered by bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, the focus of this year’s report, increased by almost 400 million people residing mainly in low- and middle-income countries.
Thursday, July 11th 2013 - 06:53 UTC
Time for China to become more Brazilian

By Markus Jaeger (*) - What could China possibly learn from Brazil, economically? After all, real GDP growth in Brazil averaged 2.75% annually over the past three decades, compared to 10% in China. Moreover, Brazil’s consumption-oriented growth model is about to exhaust itself, while China’s investment-focussed strategy continues to generate high, if somewhat diminished economic growth.
Thursday, July 11th 2013 - 06:43 UTC
IMF: US pull-back from stimulus could trigger reversal in capital flows and hurt developing countries

The International Monetary Fund trimmed its global growth forecast for the fifth time since early last year due to a slowdown in emerging economies and the woes in recession-struck Europe. In its mid-year health check of the world economy, IMF also warned global growth could slow further if the pull-back from massive monetary stimulus in the United States triggers reversals in capital flows and crimps growth in developing countries.
Thursday, July 11th 2013 - 06:34 UTC
China’s June fall in exports and imports anticipate grim outlook for world trade

China has warned of a grim outlook for trade as the world's second-largest economy surprised financial markets by reporting a fall in exports and imports when both had been expected to rise. The June data showed that exports fell 3.1% from a year earlier and imports dropped 0.7%, according to customs officials.
Thursday, July 11th 2013 - 01:41 UTC
Falklands receives €4.13 million in development funds from EU and praise for good governance

Falklands Islands received €4.13 million from the European Union to support sustainable growth through economic diversification under the European Development Fund (EDF) through mid-2013 to early 2016.
Wednesday, July 10th 2013 - 17:44 UTC
Falklands: multi-disciplinary plan to help tackle veterans’ trauma

Archaeologists, historians, former service personnel and mental health professionals are meeting in London to discuss a plan to use archaeology to tackle war trauma. The plan is the idea of University of Glasgow academic Dr Tony Pollard and is centred on the Falkland Islands conflict.