Mercosur

• Wednesday, September 15th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Brazil is Hackers Favourite.

  Brazil has become the global capital for computer hacking and internet fraud, according to experts at a meeting in Brasilia, the Brazilian capital. 500 experts from around the world are attending the first international conference to combat electronic crime.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Worlds First Super Telescope.

  Australia will build in the south east of the country a ‘super-telescope' called “SkyMapper” with which it hopes to provide the first digital map of the sky in the southern hemisphere, the Australian National University (UNA) has reported.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Oil: OPEC Agrees to Increase Production Quota.

  OPEC has agreed to increase official oil production by a million barrels a day, equivalent to 4%, up to 27 million barrels, in the hope off bringing prices down to under U$40.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Chile's Pinochet Enters Hospital.

  Chilean former dictator Augusto Pinochet was admitted to a Military Hospital, apparently with “an acute respiratory condition,”, the hospital said

• Tuesday, September 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  EU-Mercosur clear the way to advance negotiations.

  Mercosur and the European Union agreed last Sunday in Brasilia to unblock current trade negotiations and announced that next September 20 they will be exchanging further proposals with the purpose of keeping to the original deadline of October 31.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  IMF considers Argentine payment deferment.

  The International Monetary Fund will consider this Friday Argentina's request to defer until December a billion US dollars in payments which become due next Monday. This Wednesday Argentine Finance Minister Roberto Lavagna will be presenting Congress the 2005 budget, an element described as “crucial” for the IMF decision making process.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  G 10: “Global recovery is confirmed”

  Chairmen of the ten main Central Banks of the world, also known as G 10, said this Monday that the world economy continues to recover in the third quarter of 2004, including the emerging markets, in spite of the surge in oil prices.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News

  New lamb abattoir in Patagonia;
  Argentine Antarctic Institute looks for funds.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Southern Cone Defence Ministers Meeting Ends.

  At the end of day long meeting the Mercosur Defence Ministers ratified that as far as the regions security is concerned and the perception of threats, opinions are different from that of Washington and are “diametrically opposite.”

• Monday, September 13th 2004 - 21:00 UTC

  Growing inflation concerns in Brazil.

  The Brazilian Wide Consumer Price index last August reached 0,69%, down from 0,91% in July, but above market estimates of 0,65%, according to the latest report from the Brazilian Statistics and Geography Institute IBGE.