Argentina

Monday, September 20th 2010 - 04:59 UTC
Argentine economy expands 9.4% in first half of 2010; inflation fears

Argentina’s GDP expanded 9.4% in the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2009, according to the latest release from the country’s Statistics Institute, Indec. But inflation is becoming a greater challenge as the country moves into presidential electoral year 2011.
Monday, September 20th 2010 - 02:15 UTC
Disagreement over terrorist extradition could sour Chile/Argentine relations

After a lack of agreement in Chile over the extradition of ex guerrilla member Sergio Apablaza, Argentina President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said that the meeting held with President Sebastián Piñera was an “excellent” one, during declarations made to seemingly minimize the situation.
Friday, September 17th 2010 - 06:30 UTC
Chinese oil company after BP’s stake in Argentina’s Pan American Energy

CNOOC, Ltd, China’s biggest offshore oil explorer, may bid 10.2 billion USD for BPs 60% stake in Argentina’s Pan American Energy LLC and will probably seek a partner in the acquisition, Citigroup Inc. said.
Friday, September 17th 2010 - 03:37 UTC
Korea/Argentina sign nuclear cooperation MOU; new light-water plant planned

Argentina and South Korea signed on Thursday a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for bilateral collaboration in the nuclear sector. The MOU sets forth that the two nations will discuss concrete cooperation plans to build a new nuclear plant in Argentina and to repair the country's existing heavy water reactors.
Wednesday, September 15th 2010 - 05:49 UTC
Argentina elected president of G77 and prepared to act as ‘bridge” with G 20

United nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon congratulated Argentina for having been chosen to preside as of next year the G77 plus China group, anticipating Buenos Aires could act as a “bridge” with the G 20 group to which it also belongs.
Wednesday, September 15th 2010 - 05:46 UTC
Argentina confirms drilling in Malvinas basin for next December

The Argentine press confirmed that following the contracting of a semi-submersible rig from the Swedish company Stensa, a consortium of Argentine based oil companies will begin exploratory drilling in the Malvinas basin next December.
Wednesday, September 15th 2010 - 05:44 UTC
Argentine militants demand return of Falklands’ war booty docked in Buenos Aires

Argentine extreme militants belonging to a self proclaimed “Patriotic resistance” have taken over the Panama flagged Audax II docked in the port of Buenos Aires, which they allege was originally Argentine but lost to the British during the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict.
Tuesday, September 14th 2010 - 03:57 UTC
S&P raises Argentina’s long term credit rating based on an improving economy

Standard & Poor's raised on Monday its long-term foreign currency credit rating on Argentina by one notch, to B from B-minus, citing declining debt levels and an improving economy in 2010.
Monday, September 13th 2010 - 03:49 UTC
Former president Kirchner leaves hospital and recovering satisfactorily

Former Argentine president left Los Arcos hospital Sunday a few minutes after 20:00 hours next to his wife President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. A presidential press officer said the Argentine leader would be leaving at 23:00 hours given the “satisfactory evolution” of the emergency angioplasty he underwent Saturday night.
Sunday, September 12th 2010 - 06:39 UTC
Ex Argentine president Kirchner undergoes emergency angioplasty

Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner is back in the Los Arcos hospital with heart trouble. There were no immediate announcements from the government, but according to the local Noticias Argentinas news agency, the husband of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Fernandez underwent an angioplasty after he was rushed to a clinic in the capital late Saturday night with numbness in his legs.