Mercosur

• Friday, November 9th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News update

  

  Headlines:
  Welcome back, boys!; New port report out now; New Lan aircraft - but no change for Falklands; UN's Ki-moon in South America.

• Wednesday, November 7th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Mercosur requests WTO 16% expansion of sensitive goods

  

  Mercosur will request this week before the World Trade Organization, WTO, a 16% expansion in the number of sensitive industrial goods to be excluded from the consolidated tariff expected to be agreed during the Doha Round negotiations, which to all practical effects will mean an overall drop in external tariffs for out of the region imports.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Emotional return of UK 82' veterans to the Falkland Islands

  

  TWO hundred and fifty British Falklands War veterans landed at Mount Pleasant Airport at 9am this morning. The group visit under the auspices of the charity the South Atlantic Medal Association (82).

• Monday, November 5th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Centrist claims win in Guatemala

  

  A former army general who once took on the insurgency in Guatemala's long civil war lost his battle for the country's presidency on Sunday night, with voters rejecting his plan to use an iron fist, as well as the country's military, to control a sky-high murder rate.

• Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News update

  

  Headlines: 'For the country I love'; Charter flight on the way; Helicopters for FIGAS?; Wife to wear the trousers at Casa Rosada.

• Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Mercosur fares poorly in global report on competitiveness

  The United States tops the overall ranking in The Global Competitiveness Report 2007/2008. Switzerland is in second position followed by Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Finland and Singapore, respectively. The report is not encouraging for Mercosur members or Latinamerican leading economies.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  British contribution to Punta Arenas in Historic Archive

  

  As a way to preserve memories of British contribution to the development of the Magallanes Region in the extreme south of Chile, the British School in Punta Arenas inaugurated a British Historic Archive containing all the documents compiled by the Anglican Society of Punta Arenas.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Falklands: targets for exploratory oil drilling identified

  Rockhopper Exploration plc announced that initial interpretation of the 3D seismic data collected over its licences PL032 and PL033 in the Falkland Islands has revealed large fans and structural closures which could form targets for the next round of drilling. The largest fans cover approximately 40sq km and are located near to the Shell well which recovered live oil.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Falklands' logistic support for BAS vessels and aircrafts

  

  With spring in the South Atlantic, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) ships and aircraft have returned to the Falkland Islands in preparation for the 2007/08 Antarctic season.

• Saturday, October 27th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Mercosur trapped by its own contentious shortcomings

  

  Mercosur Foreign Affairs and Economy ministers met Friday in Montevideo to address asymmetries and non tariff restrictions inside the block, an ongoing issue which has become a source of growing contention between full members, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.