Argentina

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Amazon planning a regional data center in Argentina; congress passes bill to attract digital services and nanotechnology

  

  Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud division plans to build a regional data center in a free-trade zone in Argentina, according to Buenos Aires media reports. The Seattle-based company is preparing to invest about US$ 800 million in the project over 10 years and will reap considerable tax benefits by locating the data center in the Bahia Blanca-Coronel Rosales districts of the province of Buenos Aires.

• Saturday, October 5th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands/Sao Paulo air-link will be serviced with a Boeing 767, Argentine sources

  

  The Argentine media has revealed some additional details about the coming weekly airlink between the Falkland Islands and the South American continent, scheduled to begin “sometime in the second half of November”.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 18:16 UTC

  Argentine finalists of the Falklands Regional Student Competition

  

  The Falklands Regional Student Competition offers a one-week trip for students in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay to visit the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentine officers accused of 'burying' and 'staking' conscripts during the Falklands conflict face trial

  

  An Argentine federal judge from the city of Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego will be questioning four officers who allegedly during the 1982 Falklands' conflict ordered the “burial” and “staking” of a group of conscripts for having slaughtered a sheep, since they were desperately hungry and suffering from cold weather conditions.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  
Argentine industrial activity dropped 6.4% in August and 8.1% so far this year

  

  Industrial activity in Argentina dropped 6.4% during August compared to a year ago and 2.8% over last July, totalling a slide of 8.1% so far this year, according to the official stats office, Indec.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  Argentine fisheries coastal research vessel, “Mar Argentino” launched in Galicia

  

  The Argentine coastal fisheries research vessel BIP “Mar Argentino” (Argentine Sea), was launched this week in Vigo, Spain and should be ready to sail and operate by next March. She will join the renovated fleet of research vessels from the country's Fisheries Research and Development Institute, INIDEP, in Mar del Plata.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  British/Argentina AMR research partnership programs with £5 million of UK aid

  

  The UK government has provided £5 million of aid as part of an Argentine program to manage antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in agriculture and its impact on the environment. The funding will go to five research partnerships between the UK and Argentina.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Developing nations foreign debt reaches US$ 7.8 trillion, World Bank report

  

  Total foreign debt held by developing nations jumped more than 5% to US$7.8 trillion, driven by a surge in Chinese debt, the World Bank said in a report on Wednesday.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 08:52 UTC

  The IMF after Argentina

  

  By Kenneth Rogoff (*) - It’s high time to ask how to refocus the International Monetary Fund’s mandate for dealing with emerging-market debt crises. How can the IMF be effective in helping countries regain access to private credit markets when any attempt to close unsustainable budget deficits is labeled austerity?

• Wednesday, October 2nd 2019 - 09:08 UTC

  INIDEP launches “Marine and Fisheries Sciences” publication in English and Spanish

  

  The Argentine Fisheries Research and Development Institute, INIDEP, based in Mar del Plata has re-launched a historic scientific magazine, now re-baptized “Marine and Fisheries Sciences” with the purpose of circulating the work and papers from the institute.