International

• Saturday, April 18th 2009 - 05:34 UTC

  Latinamerica looks to China to increase trade and investments

  

  Latinamerica is hopeful that an increase in trade with China and investments from the Asian giant will help compensate lost business with the United States and the European Union because of the global crisis.

• Saturday, April 18th 2009 - 05:32 UTC

  Top economist says UK economy “could have started a recovery”

  

  There are signs the British economy may already have started a recovery, according to economist David Miles. He is due to join the Bank of England's rate-setting body next June.

• Friday, April 17th 2009 - 10:40 UTC

  Stimulating domestic demand and unemployment, China’s priorities

  

  Annual growth in China's GDP slowed in the first quarter of 2009 to 6.1%, said the National Bureau of Statistics. This is the weakest growth since quarterly records began in 1992, but some analysts see signs of a recovery, reports BBC.

• Friday, April 17th 2009 - 08:48 UTC

  IMF predicts 2009 as “an awful year” but all are aware it’s a “global crisis”

  

  The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said Thursday that 2009 is essentially a lost year for the world economy, with millions of people at risk of being thrown back into poverty.

• Friday, April 17th 2009 - 08:22 UTC

  Gibraltar-Madrid daily flights will resume next April 30

  

  Flights between Gibraltar and Spanish capital Madrid will be resumed later this month (April 30th) according to Andalus General Director Fernando Guerrero, who made the announcement this week at a presentation by the regional airline in the Campo Mancomunidad, in Algeciras.

• Friday, April 17th 2009 - 07:25 UTC

  French fishermen suspend blockade of English Channel ports

  

  French fishermen suspended their blockade at three English Channel ports Thursday, allowing ferry traffic and freight to move through after two days of disruption, union leaders said.

• Thursday, April 16th 2009 - 12:00 UTC

  Fishing quotas dispute forces cancelling of Dover/Calais ferries

  

  Ferry operator P&O has cancelled all Dover to Calais crossings due to a blockade by French fishing boats. The blockade at the port of Calais is also causing motorway disruption in Kent, police have said.

• Thursday, April 16th 2009 - 04:47 UTC

  Prime Minister Brown warns UK offshore tax havens

  

  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has written to the UK’s offshore tax havens – including Gibraltar – warning them to meet international transparency standards within six months or face sanctions, reports the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Thursday, April 16th 2009 - 02:51 UTC

  The Taiwan Relations Act at 30: Enduring Framework or Accidental Success?

  

  Despite its pragmatic origin, ambiguous nature and transitory design, a unique piece of legislation has guided US-Taiwan relations for longer than many ever anticipated. By Vincent Wei-cheng Wang*

• Thursday, April 16th 2009 - 01:16 UTC

  Mafia chief who inspired “The French Connection” dies in Argentina

  

  François Chiappe, the fearsome Corsican capo-mafia who inspired the famous film “The French Connection” in 1971 died in a geriatric home in the Argentine province of Cordoba last February, according to reports in the Sunday press.