International

• Thursday, September 9th 2010 - 22:52 UTC

  Forbes: Chile, Peru, Colombia, best countries for business in Latin America

  

  Chile, Peru, Colombia are listed among the Best Countries for Business according to a ranking from the US Forbes magazine which includes 129 countries taking into consideration several indexes: GDP growth, GDP/capita, trade balance, population and budget affairs.

• Thursday, September 9th 2010 - 05:31 UTC

  Time Magazine has Cristina Kirchner among the world’s top ten Female Leaders

  

  Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been listed by Time magazine among the top ten Female Leaders of the world. Time says Mrs. Kirchner “has proven to be her own woman” having survived since elected in 2007 several serious standoffs.

• Thursday, September 9th 2010 - 05:26 UTC

  Japanese Yen rallies to 15-year high on China’s record purchase of bonds

  

  As the Yen rallied to a fifteen year high against the US dollar, Japan’s government said it will seek discussions with China over the nation’s record purchases of Japanese bonds as an appreciating currency threatens to undermine an economic recovery.

• Thursday, September 9th 2010 - 00:53 UTC

  Cambridge knocks Harvard off the top of QS World university ratings

  

  The University of Cambridge has knocked Harvard University off the top of the QS World University Ratings, as the U.K. establishment’s number of academic citations rose.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 05:05 UTC

  Fidel tells Iranian president to stop slandering Jews and understand ‘anti-Semitism’

  

  Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro has urged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop slandering the Jews, according to an article published on the US website The Atlantic on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 03:26 UTC

  Soros donates 100 million USD to expand Human Rights Watch in key regional capitals

  

  Hungarian born US billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros is donating 100 million US dollars to the group Human Rights Watch. In a statement Tuesday, Human Rights Watch said Soros is giving the grant through his Open Society Foundations, which he established to promote tolerance and democracy around the world.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 03:24 UTC

  Labour victory in Australia means 30% mining tax will go ahead

  

  Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard secured a razor-thin parliamentary majority ending a political impasse but investors are worried about the fragility of her government and its plans to tax mining profits.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 02:32 UTC

  EU follows US and approves new framework for financial supervision

  

  The European Union finance ministers agreed Tuesday to establish a new framework for financial supervision, designed to help prevent future financial crises. The measures include a European Systemic Risk Board to oversee the health of Europe's economy.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 02:29 UTC

  A review of Third World United States: the Argentina connection

  

  United States online publication The Huffington Post published Tuesday an article whose title caught the attention of those in the Southern cone: “Becoming Argentina: A Review of Third World America.”

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 01:55 UTC

  FAO says there is no world food crisis, but fears market anxiety and panic buying

  

  Food commodities markets will remain more volatile in years ahead and the international community will need to develop appropriate ways of dealing with that, a top FAO official said Tuesday.