Tag: Japan

• Wednesday, May 5th 2010 - 06:33 UTC

  Australia Raises Interest Rate for the Sixth Time in Eight Months

  

  Australia's central bank has raised interest rates for the sixth time in eight months as the country's economy continues to recover. The target interest rate is now at 4.5%—up from 3% in October last year.

• Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 01:51 UTC

  FAO Urges Heightened International Surveillance Against Foot and Mouth Disease

  

  FAO urged heightened international surveillance against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) following three recent incursions in Japan and South Korea.

• Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 08:36 UTC

  Argentina Publishes Terms of the Defaulted 20 Billion Bonds Swap

  

  The Argentine government has published the offer to swap 20 billion US dollars in defaulted bonds on specialized media around the globe and on www.argentina2010offer.com website.

• Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 02:20 UTC

  Japan Issues Arrest Warrant for Head of Anti-Whaling Sea Shepherd

  

  Japan’s Coast Guard has obtained an arrest warrant for the head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, accusing him of ordering members of the protest group to obstruct the Japanese whaling fleet, investigative sources said Friday.

• Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 00:59 UTC

  Iceland Displeased with Whale Hunting Quota Threatens to Pull Out of IWC

  

  Twelve member countries of the International Whaling Commission (IWC)—an 88-country organization created in 1946 to monitor the whaling industry—have proposed catch quotas for the next ten years for countries that hunt whales.

• Thursday, April 29th 2010 - 07:28 UTC

  Outbreaks of Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Japan Includes Cows and Pigs

  

  Japan has discovered suspected cases of foot-and-mouth disease in pigs at a farm in Miyazaki prefecture, where the government confirmed the first outbreak since 2000 in cows last week.

• Wednesday, April 28th 2010 - 01:19 UTC

  Argentina Hosting FAO Fisheries Meeting to Upgrade Fish Trade and Conservation

  

  The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Committee on Fisheries (COFI) is meeting this week in Buenos Aires to examine technical and economic aspects of the international trade in fish and fishery products.

• Tuesday, April 27th 2010 - 22:38 UTC

  Chilean Conservation Groups Reject Whaling Commission Latest Proposals

  

  A new proposal announced last week by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) would allow the killing of a number of whales in the Antarctic Ocean off the coast of Chile and has Chilean environmental groups upset.

• Tuesday, April 27th 2010 - 05:36 UTC

  Scientists Discover Deep-Ocean Current Moving Northward from Antarctica

  

  Work in Japan and Australia has revealed that a deep-ocean current is carrying frigid water rapidly northward from Antarctica along the edge of a giant underwater plateau.