Mercosur

• Monday, August 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Lab produced meat from cells to feed millions

  According to scientists from the University of Maryland advances in cell and tissue engineering could lead to the production in laboratory conditions of meat from cells extracted to animals.

• Monday, August 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Magallanes export boom in second quarter

  Magallanes region exports increased 36% during the second quarter totalling 245,2 million US dollars, compared to the same period last year.

• Monday, August 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands' war film in Spanish film festival

  “Enlightened by fire”, the Argentine film showing how Argentine soldiers were mistreated and humiliated by their own officers during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict will be competing in the San Sebastian, Spain, film Festival next September.

• Monday, August 15th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Mercosur-CAN speed integration process

  The full integration timetable for Mercosur and the Community of Andean Nations could be advanced from 2014 to 2010 in the coming South American Nations Community presidential summit which will be hosted by Brazil next September.

• Sunday, August 14th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Bishops call for an end to the “scandalous gaps” in Chile

  Chilean bishops from the Catholic Church Standing Episcopal Committee called on all candidates campaigning for December elections to make public proposals to achieve greater equality in the Chilean society helping to overcome the current “scandalous social, economic and cultural gaps”.

• Saturday, August 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Castro turns 79 and still going strong

  Fidel Castro, the world's longest ruling head of state turns 79 Saturday, is celebrating a key political and legal victory over his enemies in exile after a U.S. appeals court ordered a new trial in the high-profile case of five alleged Cuban spies.

• Saturday, August 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Oil industry drastically cuts investment in Bolivia

  Investment in Bolivia by the mainly foreign-owned petroleum companies dropped 40% in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2004, reported the oil and gas industry in La Paz.

• Saturday, August 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Lula apologizes but is unconvincing

  Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva apologized Friday in a nationwide address for a bribery and campaign finance scandal while the head of a junior party in the ruling coalition said for the first time that the president was aware of misdeeds before they occurred.

• Saturday, August 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Australia amends bill to tackle illegal fishing

  To counter the alarming increase in the number of foreign vessels fishing illegally in Australia's northern waters, Parliament passed the Border Protection Legislation Amendment Bill on 10 August.

• Saturday, August 13th 2005 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay after larger share in Atlantic tuna

  Uruguay's National Directorate of Aquatic Resources (DINARA) is working on a strategic plan benefiting Uruguayan flagged vessels in the tuna and swordfish Atlantic fisheries over the next five years.