Chile

• Wednesday, August 24th 2016 - 07:53 UTC

  Chileans massive protest to end the private pension system; Bachelet's approval plummets to 15%

  

  Tens of thousands of Chileans took to the streets throughout the country on Sunday, seeking to increase pressure on the government to throw out Chile’s private pension system in favor of one that would provide better retirement benefits.

• Monday, August 22nd 2016 - 12:00 UTC

  Chile: scientific report states that dumping dead salmon in the sea was not linked to red tide

  

  A committee of independent scientists which was named to investigate the red tide phenomenon affecting the Los Lagos Region in the south of Chile, earlier this year, have concluded that salmon dumping in the sea was not an agent causing the phenomenon.

• Saturday, August 20th 2016 - 05:29 UTC

  UK strongly supports innovative solutions for the Chilean mining sector

  

  The British Embassy in Chile participated at the mining conference Medmin to strengthen the importance of British innovative solutions for the mining sector in a country which is highly dependent on minerals and is the world's leading exporter of copper.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2016 - 21:34 UTC

  Chile hosts international conference of teachers of English as a foreign language

  

  The 14th International Conference of IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) was held in Santiago de Chile on 22 and 23 July at Universidad San Sebastian with the attendance of 800 current and future teachers of English.

• Tuesday, August 16th 2016 - 20:52 UTC

  UK embassy in Chile hosts major workshop on sustainable mining and tailings

  

  Several sustainable mining projects supported by the British Embassy’s 2016 Prosperity Fund and Newton-Picarte science and innovation fund were discussed at a workshop held at the British Embassy in late July.

• Thursday, August 11th 2016 - 06:28 UTC

  Bachelet forced to introduce reforms to Chile's private pension system

  

  Under pressure from the public, Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet proposed changes to the most radical of all the economic reforms of former dictator Augusto Pinochet — the private pension system that inspired a wave of similar projects worldwide.

• Wednesday, August 10th 2016 - 05:33 UTC

  Punta Arenas airport plans to double passengers' terminal area and commercial aircraft capacity

  

  Punta Arenas airport is planning to double the area of the passengers' terminal and increase the number of jet bridges from three to five, as part of a major expansion program given the increase in annual commercial traffic at the President Carlos Ibañez del Campo Airport, which has been double the Chilean average.

• Saturday, July 30th 2016 - 08:36 UTC

  Unemployment in Magallanes Region climbs to the highest in five years

  

  Unemployment in Magallanes, extreme south of Chile climbed strongly during the March/May quarter, from 3.6% to 5.7%, marking the third consecutive mobile quarter increase. The 5.7% is the highest unemployment mark in five years, in 2015, 4%; 2014, 2.8%; 2013, 2.7%; 2012, 3% and in 2011, 4%.

• Friday, July 8th 2016 - 06:18 UTC

  Punta Arenas opens “Shackleton, 100 years” exhibition to honor the great explorer and Piloto Pardo

  

  Alexandra Shackleton is in Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile to open an exhibition dedicated to her grandfather, the great British Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who became world famous for his resilience, courage and determination in rescuing his stranded crew from the frozen continent, and in which the Chilean navy played a crucial role.

• Saturday, July 2nd 2016 - 09:20 UTC

  Antarctic ozone hole is finally starting to heal according to study published in Science

  

  Nearly thirty years after an international treaty banned the use of chlorofluorocarbons, the Antarctic ozone hole is finally starting to heal. By mid to late century, it should be fully recovered.