Mercosur

• Friday, September 14th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News Update

  

  Headlines:
  The way of the future; Gold company to end Falklands exploration; Millions for new ferry terminals?; UK policemen to 'mentor' local officers; What's on this weekend?

• Thursday, September 13th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Paulson sees “long” confidence crisis in credit markets

  

  The crisis of confidence in credit markets is likely to last longer than previous financial shocks of the past two decades warned United States Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in an interview with the Financial Times.

• Thursday, September 13th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Asia taking a clear global trade lead over Latinamerica

  

  The United Nations Economic Committee for Latinamerica and the Caribbean, CEPAL, recommends Latinamerica and MERCOSUR to have closer links with the Association of South East Asian nations, ASEAN.

• Wednesday, September 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  The Falkland's Tourist Board appoints General Manager

  

  The Falkland Islands Tourist Board (FITB) has appointed Jake Downing to the post of General Manager, effective from the 5th November 2007.

• Thursday, August 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Hundreds arrested in Santiago de Chile labor protest

  

  Police prevented members and supporters of Chile's largest labor union – the United Workers Central (CUT) – from marching through the streets of the capital Santiago on Wednesday, after union leaders deliberately failed to seek authorization for their protest.

• Wednesday, August 29th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur received 300 billion in foreign direct investment

  

  Mercosur member countries received 300 billion US dollars in foreign direct investments between 1990 and 2004, reported the United Nationd Economic Commission for Latinamerica and the Caribbean, Cepal.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  UK embassy sponsored seminar addresses climate change

  

  Climate change, and its economic impact was pushed onto the front burner at a seminar on Monday organized by the British Embassy in Argentina which the key speaker was Stephen Green, a senior economist at the UK's Ministry of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.

• Tuesday, August 21st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Hurricane Dean strengthens into a Category 5 storm

  

  Hurricane Dean strengthened into a monstrous Category 5 storm Monday night as its outer bands of wind and rain slammed the coasts of Mexico and Belize. Thousands of tourists fled the beaches of the Mayan Riviera as it roared toward the ancient ruins and modern oil installations of the Yucatan Peninsula.

• Tuesday, August 21st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Mortgage buble: risk rating agencies to be grilled by US Senate

  

  Credit rating companies must “shoulder some responsibility” for sub-prime mortgage bonds that have sparked a crisis in credit markets said United States Senator Richard C. Shelby, the Senate Banking Committee's top Republican.

• Monday, August 20th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Navy's newest warship sets sail for Falkland Islands patrol duty

  

  The Royal Navy's newest warship HMS Clyde left Portsmouth on Monday, 20 August bound for the South Atlantic.