Argentina

• Tuesday, March 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Low prices, soaring costs, discourage Argentine jiggers

  

  Argentina's squid season has had a poor start threatened by a weak demand and low prices, reports the newspaper El Chubut, from Puerto Madryn in the Patagonian province of Chubut.

• Tuesday, March 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Prosecutor reviewing ex-governor Kirchner Santa Cruz oil funds

  

  An Argentine prosecutor has requested former president Nestor Kirchner be summoned to declare on alleged irregular handling of funds belonging to the provincial government of Santa Cruz, which he ruled during eleven years

• Monday, March 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Mrs. Kirchner praises current Argentine economic model

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner vowed on Saturday to sustain the current economic model which has spurred the greatest growth in a century and if this year confirms the current expansion rate, in Argentina's history.

• Sunday, March 2nd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Gas reserves horizon in Argentina falls from 25 to 9 years

  Argentina's natural gas reserves have dropped dramatically from a 25 years horizon to just 9 years between 2001 and 2005, according to a report from the Nation's General Auditing Office, AGN, covering 1993 to 2006.

• Friday, February 29th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina plans LNG import by sea to face winter shortage

  

  Argentina is planning to import, by sea, liquid gas, LNG, in the coming months in an effort to anticipate and contain a repeat of past winters shortages, reports the Friday edition of the Buenos Aires press.

• Thursday, February 28th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Wildfires in Patagonia threaten centuries old trees

  

  Wildfires raging at a national park in Argentina's Patagonia region since last Sunday are threatening to destroy trees up to thousands of years old and the government has called for residents in the area to evacuate homes and farms.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Anti yellow fever vaccination campaign reaches Buenos Aires

  Buenos Aires health centres have begun to vaccinate against yellow fever in support of a national campaign to prevent the spread of the viral mosquito transmitted disease following serious outbreaks in Brazil and Paraguay, both neighboring countries with Argentina reported Buenos Aires City authorities.

• Monday, February 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine economy breaks production and job records

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner administration might have mid term energy problems incubating but the latest data indicates that the Argentine economy keeps steaming ahead with increased employment and record industrial production. Trade surplus in January was also unexpectedly high.

• Monday, February 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Inflation in Argentina “around 20%” says ex minister Lavagna

  

  Argentina's former economy minister Roberto Lavagna claimed that inflation is “round 20%” departing from the government line that puts the index of rising prices at 8.5% for 2007.

• Monday, February 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentina promotes bird-watching as form of tourism

  

  An estimated 500 ornithologists from Argentina are to meet in San Martín de los Andes, Neuquén, next March 5 to seek ways of promoting bird-watching as a form of tourism.
  
  Argentina is scheduled to host a world birdwatchers conference in September.