Uruguay

• Friday, September 3rd 2010 - 05:26 UTC

  Budget days: Uruguay GDP forecasted to expand 30% in five years

  

  It’s budget time in Uruguay and the government has presented to Congress its revenue and expenditure estimates (821 articles) based on a five-year forecast for the economy, which private analyst consider too rosy.

• Friday, September 3rd 2010 - 05:18 UTC

  Uruguayan exports in eight months reach 4.4 billion US dollars

  

  Uruguayan exports in the first eight months of 2010 reached 4.475 billion US dollars which is 22% higher than the same period of last year, according to official data released this week.

• Tuesday, August 31st 2010 - 05:10 UTC

  Uruguay/Argentina implement the end of the pulp mill dispute

  

  Argentina and Uruguay signed Monday in Montevideo the agreement which puts an end to an ongoing years-long litigation over the construction of a pulp mill along a shared river.

• Tuesday, August 31st 2010 - 03:40 UTC

  Uruguay government employees’ take-home pay doubles that of the private sector

  

  Uruguayan government employees’ take-home pay on average more than doubles their counterparts in the private sector according to official figures from the country’s Social Security Office and published by Montevideo’s main daily El País.

• Tuesday, August 31st 2010 - 03:12 UTC

  Uruguayan soaring real estate values closely linked to depreciation of US dollar

  

  Fears that Uruguay could be heading for a “real estate bubble” since prices in US dollars have increased more than 70% in the last five years, seem to have been neutralized by historic data and the strong appreciation of the Uruguayan currency.

• Monday, August 30th 2010 - 07:18 UTC

  China essential for Uruguay’s “international development”

  

  Uruguay pledged efforts to seek a stronger relationship with Beijing since “China is an essential factor in the international development of Uruguay”, said Vice-President Danilo Astori following an hour long meeting in Beijing with his counterpart Wu Bangguo, president of the National Assembly.

• Monday, August 30th 2010 - 06:36 UTC

  Timerman expected in Montevideo to coordinate monitoring of River Uruguay

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Héctor Timerman will meet Monday in Montevideo with his Uruguayan counterpart, Luis Almagro, to advance with the implementation of the scientific committee that will monitor the UPM (ex Botnia) pulp mill and the River Uruguay.

• Saturday, August 28th 2010 - 07:10 UTC

  Former Uruguayan Defence minister honoured by US Centre for Defence Studies

  

  The United States Centre for Hemispheric Defence Studies (CHDS) has selected U.S. Army Gen. John Galvin and former Uruguayan Defence Minister Dr. José Bayardi in the individual category and the Mexican Centre for Superior Naval Studies (CESNAV) in the institutional category for the 2010 William J. Perry Award for Excellence in Security and Defence Education.

• Saturday, August 28th 2010 - 06:55 UTC

  EuroFruit congress to be held in Uruguay next December

  

  Uruguay’s renowned sea resort Punta del Este will be hosting next December the 2010 Eurofruit Congress Southern Hemisphere. This is the first time the annual conference and exhibition event for the region’s fresh produce industry comes to Uruguay.

• Friday, August 27th 2010 - 08:28 UTC

  Timerman flies to Montevideo and will announce scientists for joint-river monitoring

  

  Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Héctor Timerman informed via Twitter that he will fly to Montevideo next Monday to meet his Uruguayan counterpart, Luis Almagro in the framework of the recent agreement regarding the dispute over the UPM/Botnia pulp-mill.