Tag: Chile

• Monday, November 15th 2010 - 19:50 UTC

  Chile targets a million visitors to thermal hot springs by 2015

  

  A new business association promoting Chile’s thermal hot springs hopes to bump visits up 12% to 1 million people by 2015. Last year only 700,000 people visited Chile’s hot springs, which exist in all corners of this mountainous, volcano-rich country.

• Friday, November 12th 2010 - 18:22 UTC

  Ambitious 1.000 km pipeline project to deliver water to desert dry north Chile

  

  A 3.85 billion US dollars pipeline to carry freshwater some 1,000 kilometres from central Chile to the country’s northern desert will provide a cheaper alternative for users now reliant on desalinization of ocean water, a business news Web site said this week.

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 20:29 UTC

  Chilean government supports Muslim school girl use of ‘hijab’

  

  Yasmin Elsayed, a 9-year old girl who was prohibited from wearing a hijab (an Islamic head scarf) at the W. A. Mozart School in the La Reina borough of Chile’s capital Santiago, was allowed to register again for the 2011 school year this week.

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 14:44 UTC

  ISA virus outbreak detected on salmon farm in southern Chile

  

  SERNAPESCA, Chile’s national marine fisheries service, has declared an Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) outbreak on a salmon farm in the Magallanes Region (XII).

• Thursday, November 11th 2010 - 06:07 UTC

  India set to become second largest copper consumer by 2020

  

  COCHILCO, Chile’s copper commission, estimates that by the end of this decade, India’s demand for copper will rise from the current figure of 610,000 tons to between 2.4 million and 3.6 million tons annually.

• Wednesday, November 10th 2010 - 05:57 UTC

  Latin America’s second largest bourse by market value is launched in Peru

  

  The main securities exchanges in Chile, Colombia and Peru plan to begin trialling cross-border stock trading in an arrangement that may lead to the creation of Latin America’s second-largest bourse by market value.

• Tuesday, November 9th 2010 - 01:10 UTC

  Study reveals Chilean insensitivity to one of the country’s main problems, poverty

  

  A recent study shows Chileans’ low sensitivity to one of the nation’s biggest problems—poverty. Despite that 58.8% of Chileans say they believe poverty to be one of the country’s biggest problems only 15.3% say they feel responsible for the low quality of life of those who have limited resources.

• Monday, November 8th 2010 - 02:45 UTC

  Commander in Chief of Chinese Navy on official visit to Chile

  

  In the framework of the close relations between Chile and China, the commander of the Chinese Navy, Admiral Wu Shengli was scheduled to arrive Sunday in Santiago for an official several days visit, according to a release from the Chilean Navy.

• Monday, November 8th 2010 - 02:28 UTC

  Mercosur forgot to integrate with the rest of the world, says Piñera

  

  Chilean president Sebastian Piñera said that Mercosur privileged integration among its members but forgot about integration with the rest of the world.

• Saturday, November 6th 2010 - 07:57 UTC

  Chilean Patagonia dams’ project becomes international environmentalist cause

  

  As criticism continues over plans to build five hydroelectric dams in the Aysén Region (XI) in Chilean Patagonia, international groups have been a constant presence in the fight against the HidroAysen project.