Argentina

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 02:13 UTC

  Timerman visits Paraguay, announces two new bridges linking with Argentina

  

  Argentina’s Foreign Affaire minister Hector Timerman announced Tuesday in Asuncion the construction of two new bridges linking Argentina with Paraguay and the upgrading of an existing one.

• Tuesday, August 31st 2010 - 05:10 UTC

  Uruguay/Argentina implement the end of the pulp mill dispute

  

  Argentina and Uruguay signed Monday in Montevideo the agreement which puts an end to an ongoing years-long litigation over the construction of a pulp mill along a shared river.

• Monday, August 30th 2010 - 06:36 UTC

  Timerman expected in Montevideo to coordinate monitoring of River Uruguay

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Héctor Timerman will meet Monday in Montevideo with his Uruguayan counterpart, Luis Almagro, to advance with the implementation of the scientific committee that will monitor the UPM (ex Botnia) pulp mill and the River Uruguay.

• Saturday, August 28th 2010 - 07:01 UTC

  Argentina company opens first algae bio-diesel plant

  

  An Argentine company opened on Friday the country's first factory to make bio-diesel from algae, hoping to use it as a replacement for soy in making bio-diesel as part of a push for renewable energy.

• Saturday, August 28th 2010 - 06:58 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner sends bill declaring production of newsprint of “public interest”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner sent the project that aims to declare of “public interest” the production and distribution of newsprint to the Lower House of Congress, where it is believed the opposition's A Group would vote against the bill; however, centre-left parties might join the pro-government initiative.

• Saturday, August 28th 2010 - 06:49 UTC

  Timerman names two Argentine scientists for the River Uruguay monitoring

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Héctor Timerman confirmed the names of those who had been appointed as the two Argentine scientists taking part in the upcoming River Uruguay and pulp mill UPM/Botnia joint monitoring agreed with neighbouring Uruguayan authorities.

• Friday, August 27th 2010 - 08:28 UTC

  Timerman flies to Montevideo and will announce scientists for joint-river monitoring

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Héctor Timerman informed via Twitter that he will fly to Montevideo next Monday to meet his Uruguayan counterpart, Luis Almagro in the framework of the recent agreement regarding the dispute over the UPM/Botnia pulp-mill.

• Friday, August 27th 2010 - 08:25 UTC

  Malvinas: Argentina working for more than “a gesture of support” from Unasur

  

  Argentina is working with Unasur (Union of South American Nations) so that in the future the South American forum offers more than “a gesture of support” to Argentina’s claim over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands and helps bring the United Kingdom to the sovereignty negotiations table, said Argentine ambassador before United Nations, Jorge Argüello.

• Friday, August 27th 2010 - 08:05 UTC

  Argentina’s hotel building boom: “symbol of climb back from global downturn”

  

  Argentina’s hotel building boom can be held up as a symbol of South America’s climb back from the global downturn. The country has 15 projects in the development pipeline representing 1,700 rooms, according to STR Global. Of those 1,700 rooms, 68.9% or 1,172 are currently in the in-construction phase of development.

• Thursday, August 26th 2010 - 05:05 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner confrontation with Clarin and La Nacion scares investors

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s growing confrontation with the country’s largest newspaper is exacerbating the biggest tumble in its dollar bonds in two months and prompting JPMorgan Chase & Co. to recommend investors cut holdings.