Chile

• Monday, September 10th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  Chile and Japan working on an early system to anticipate outbreaks of red tide

  

  The Chilean University of La Frontera with support and financing from Japan's International Cooperation Agency (JICA), will attempt to develop an unprecedented early warning system that makes it possible to monitor, predict and detect the outbreaks of red tide in southern Chile. JICA is contributing with almost US$ 4.5 million.

• Monday, September 3rd 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  Upset Hindus urge Chilean brewery to withdraw goddess Kali beer & apologize

  

  Upset Hindus are urging Chile's based Cerveza Bundor craft brewery to apologize and retire its “Kali IPA” beer carrying the re-imagined image of Hindu goddess Kali; calling it highly inappropriate.

• Monday, September 3rd 2018 - 07:47 UTC

  Falklands' competition open to students from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay

  

  The Government of the Falkland Islands and the British Embassies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay invites university students to participate. This regional competition offers winners the chance to visit the Falklands for a week with all the costs covered.

• Friday, August 31st 2018 - 09:20 UTC

  Falkland Island’s participation in International hockey tournaments at Patagonia

  

  This year the Falkland Islands teams competed in two international ice hockey tournaments. Firstly two of our player/coaches took part in The Patagonian Brotherhood Cup held in Puerto Williams. They competed as part of the rest of the world team with players from other countries eventually taking 3rd place.

• Friday, August 31st 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  Chile reduces air boarding taxes by 20%, effective September first

  

  Chilean Minister of Finance Jose Ramon Valente, via its official Twitter account, announced a “20% reduction in the boarding taxes, which will reduce air fares” in the country, both for international and domestic flights. He added “traveling overseas no longer is a privilege for the well off”.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 08:25 UTC

  Chilean Supreme Court seizes US$ 1.6m assets from Pinochet family

  

  Chile's Supreme Court ordered the seizure of more than US$1.6 million from the assets of the late dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet. The top court also sentenced three former military officers to four years in prison for embezzlement of public funds in a case involving Pinochet, but allowed them to remain free under conditional liberty.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2018 - 08:00 UTC

  Chile's latest export to England: burglars targeting wealthy homes

  

  A criminal gang which was flying burglars from Chile into the UK to target wealthy homes in the South East has been dismantled, police have said. Luxury items worth more than £1m were stolen by the thieves, who targeted hundreds of homes, then shipped some of the goods out of the country.

• Thursday, August 23rd 2018 - 08:48 UTC

  Chile's GDP in the second quarter grew 5.3%

  

  Chile's gross domestic product grew 5.3% in the second-quarter of 2018 compared with a year earlier, its biggest jump in nearly six years, the central bank said this week.

• Saturday, August 18th 2018 - 07:52 UTC

  Punta Arenas 2018/19 cruise season expects 138 calls and 89.100 visitors

  

  The extreme south Chile 2018/2019 cruise season, which includes mainly Punta Arenas, plus Puerto Natales and Puerto Williams, is expected to take off next September 15 and will extend until 29 March 2019, as reported by the Austral Port Enterprise, EPAustal

• Thursday, August 9th 2018 - 12:50 UTC

  Ex Chilean president Bachelet chosen as next UN human rights chief

  

  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has chosen former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to be the world body’s new human rights chief, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The 193-member U.N. General Assembly is due to meet on Friday to approve Bachelet’s appointment.