Argentina

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 05:39 UTC

  Argentina imposes strict rules on foreign-exchange trading

  

  Argentina tightened foreign-exchange rules Monday in a step it says is aimed at limiting money laundering and tax evasion, but which most observers say it is geared to restrict the flow of dollars.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 05:35 UTC

  Argentina’s head of fisheries flatly denies “uncontrolled hake catches”

  

  Argentina’s head of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Under Secretariat Norberto Yauhar openly denied the alleged collapse of hake (Merluccius hubbsi) fishery in the South Atlantic and claims of absence of control measures and management to ensure its sustainability.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 01:17 UTC

  Growing number of Argentines optimistic about the economy in 2011

  

  An increasing number of Argentines have growing expectations about their country’s economy well into 2011 when presidential elections are scheduled to take place, according to a public opinion poll published this weekend in the Buenos Aires press.

• Tuesday, June 8th 2010 - 00:27 UTC

  Argentine top magistrate cautions pickets blocking bridge leading to Uruguay

  

  Argentina’s Supreme Court president Ricardo Lorenzetti said that the blockade by Argentine pickets impeding, since 2006 crossing to neighbouring Uruguay, to protest the construction of a pulp mill, is “unsustainable”.

• Saturday, June 5th 2010 - 05:10 UTC

  Argentina’s commercial hake fishery has “two years left”

  

  Over the last 20 years abundance of common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) has declined 80% in the Southwest Atlantic as a result of over-fishing, claims Argentina’s Fundación Vida Silvestre, Wild Life Foundation, (FVSA).

• Friday, June 4th 2010 - 19:02 UTC

  Falklands’ thick fog forces two RAF Typhoons and tanker to land in Punta Arenas

  

  Two Royal Air Force Euro Typhoon fighters and their Vickers VC10 refuelling tanker had to land Wednesday afternoon in Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, because of adverse weather conditions in the Falkland Islands Mount Pleasant Airport.

• Friday, June 4th 2010 - 05:11 UTC

  Mounting pressure in Argentina for Justice to order removal of pickets

  

  Pressure is mounting in Argentina for pickets blocking an international bridge leading to Uruguay to be ordered removed by a court order, following Wednesday’ presidential summit when Uruguay’s Jose Mujica and Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner agreed on a joint agenda of pending issues.

• Friday, June 4th 2010 - 01:26 UTC

  Argentina planning to develop nuclear powered vessels for the Navy

  

  Argentina is seriously considering incorporating nuclear powered vessels to the Navy and constructing topsides for naval ships and oil rigs. However this will have to be developed with Argentine technology, said Defence minister Nilda Garré.

• Friday, June 4th 2010 - 00:42 UTC

  Argentine record tax revenue also transcends soaring inflation

  

  Argentine tax revenue soared in May in line with robust economic growth as consumers spent more on goods and services and prices rose amid soaring inflation. According to official data from AFIP, the federal tax revenue agency collected 44% more revenue in May than it did a year ago.

• Thursday, June 3rd 2010 - 06:30 UTC

  Mujica and CFK agree to implement bilateral monitoring of the River Uruguay

  

  Uruguay and Argentina pledged Wednesday to advance in a wide ranging 27-point agenda but most important to work within a 60-day scheme to perform a bilateral monitoring of the shared river Uruguay, where the construction of a pulp mill on the Uruguayan side soured bilateral relations for several years.