International

• Friday, December 15th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines: A close shave for cash; Status: to have and to hold?; De-mining study; Attorney General's shock resignation; This week's cruise visits; New Playground to open; Legislative Council meets today; Get ready for the Raft Race.

• Thursday, December 14th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Bajii Yangtze dolphin “is functionally extinct”

  

  The Baiji Yangtze Dolphin is with all probability extinct reports a scientific expedition from the Institute for Hydrobiology Wuhan, China, and the Swiss-based baiji.org Foundation. During six weeks they desperately searched the Yangtze River for a specimen but in vain.

• Wednesday, December 6th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  China forecasted to expand above 10% next year

  China's growth next year is forecasted to exceed 10% and consumer prices should be in the range of 1.5% according to the latest estimates from the People's Bank of China, reports the Chinese agency Xinhua.

• Thursday, June 1st 2000 - 19:00 UTC

  Queen's Abandoned 1968 Argentina Visit “Inconvenient” say Newly Released Documents

  

  Foreign Office documents just released in Britain reveal that a planned visit to Argentina by the Queen in 1968 was abandoned by Harold Wilson's Labour Government because it was feared she would become involved in the Falklands Islands sovereignty dispute. But the British Government did not give the real reason. They made an excuse that the travel arrangements were “inconvenient”, according to the documents now made available by the Public Record Office.