Chile

• 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.

• Friday, July 1st 2016 - 09:08 UTC

  “Possible surprise” in US elections must have the Pacific Alliance “ready to react”

  

  The Pacific Alliance must be “ready to react” to a possible “surprise” in the United States presidential election, Mexican Economy Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo said in Chile on Thursday.

• Friday, July 1st 2016 - 08:45 UTC

  Pacific Alliance after stronger integration and closer links with the EU

  

  The presidents of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, the four member states of the Pacific Alliance, met on Thursday in the Chilean town of Puerto Varas to strengthen their economic integration in order to deal with the ravages of global finance. They also called for closer links with the European Union to bolster education for development.

• Friday, July 1st 2016 - 08:30 UTC

  Pacific Alliance members plan financial integration investing pension funds in infrastructure

  

  The Pacific Alliance must improve integration of financial systems to spur investment in key areas such as infrastructure, finance ministers from the four member nations said on Thursday. The group, composed of Colombia, Mexico, Chile, and Peru, has already reached several accords in areas such as free commerce and immigration rules, but admitted that significant opportunities for integration remained.

• Thursday, June 30th 2016 - 15:46 UTC

  Pacific Alliance summit in Chile convenes seven regional presidents

  

  Six Latin American leaders and a president-elect will be participating in the two day Pacific Alliance business forum and presidential summit hosted by Chile and beginning on Thursday.