Tag: Argentina

• Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 08:29 UTC

  Argentines recover honour on closing day of World Tango Championship

  

  A couple from Argentina salvaged hometown honour Tuesday night by winning the “stage tango” category on the closing day of the World Tango Championships in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, August 26th 2011 - 16:56 UTC

  Argentina blocks sale of Paraguayan power to Uruguay

  

  “Argentina wants to charge 49 dollars per KW of power transferred from Paraguay to Uruguay, which is five times what it charges Brazil” claims Paraguayan Vice President Federico Franco who described the pretension as “inadmissible and preposterous”.

• Friday, August 26th 2011 - 13:01 UTC

  Lager beer yeast arrived in Europe from Patagonia 500 years ago

  

  The mystery behind the birth of lager beer has been solved. Scientists have successfully traced the origin of the popular alcoholic beverage to a type of yeast, believed to have travelled 11,000 kilometres from Patagonia, (Argentina) to Bavaria 500 years ago.

• Friday, August 26th 2011 - 04:13 UTC

  Argentine Claims on the South Atlantic Remote Islands

  

  Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands is well documented, but lesser known is her continued claim to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

• Friday, August 26th 2011 - 04:09 UTC

  Argentina blasts Moody’s for questioning soundness of the banking system

  

  Argentina’s Central Bank’s Governor (BCRA) Mercedes Marcó del Pont said on Thursday that the Argentine banking system “is in its best historical levels of liquidity, solvency and default rates” referring to an earlier report from Moody’s rating agency.

• Friday, August 26th 2011 - 03:22 UTC

  Mercosur/Israel trade deal comes into effect following Argentina’s signature

  

  A free trade agreement between Israel and Argentina is set to come into effect on September 9, the Israeli Industry, Trade and Labour Ministry announced this week.

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:28 UTC

  Argentine steel group Techint begins arbitration proceedings against Venezuela

  

  Steel giant Tenaris, a member of the Argentine group Techint, said on Wednesday that it initiated arbitration proceedings against Venezuela following the nationalization of steelmaker Matesi.

• Thursday, August 25th 2011 - 06:08 UTC

  Canada to overhaul and expand Argentine nuclear power plant

  

  Argentina signed contracts worth 444 million dollars on Wednesday with a subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin Group, Canada's top engineering firm, to extend the shelf-life of its Embalse nuclear plant.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 06:55 UTC

  Government spending and jobs boost President Cristina Fernandez re-election

  

  With Argentina’s presidential election less than two months away official data is showing why President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is poised to make effective her re-election bid in October.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 06:40 UTC

  Argentine trade surplus shrinks 22% in July as imports outpace exports

  

  Argentina's trade surplus shrank 22% in July from a year earlier to 672 million dollars as import growth continued to outpace exports, the government said on Tuesday. The trade surplus totalled 861 million dollars in July 2010.