Chile News

JAMAICA: Rawle Brancker has resigned from his post as chairman of the West Indies organising committee for the 2007 Cricket World Cup.2.9

International police cooperation thwarted a plan to flood Australia with $NZ30 million of cocaine via New Zealand, the High Court at Auckland has heard.3.1

DANISH EMBASSY DONATES 38,000 BOOKS TO CHILE'S EDUCATION MINISTRY 100,000 Books with Stories by Hans Christian Andersen to Be Distributed Chile's children will soon have a greater chance to appreciate the ...4

InterContinental Hotels Group , the world's largest and most global hotel company, continues its aggressive expansion with the opening of the 65-room, 15-story Holiday Inn Express Avenida Sumare-Sao Paulo in ...

BEIRUT: Chile and Lebanon are expected to sign a declaration of intent for the future twinning of Beirut with the Chilean city of Valparaiso.2.7

NAWAB SHAH, September 05 : Gastroenteritis claimed two more lives of children and the death toll killed by the fatal disease has reached to 11 on Sunday as the disease is spreading rapidly unabated in the ...2.9

CHILE CELEBRATES SURVIVAL OF DENTAL STUDENT IN NEW ORLEANS Chile Riveted by Hurricane Katrina Saga, Concern for Chilean Nationals Continues After three days living on a rooftop without food or water in New ...4

Songs about life, love, family, drugs and the Mexican Mafia filled Whittier Narrows Regional Park on Sunday as thousands of people celebrated Mexican Independence Day.

LAHORE: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has advised the polity of country to shun agitation politics, as it is not conducive for the political environment and stability of the country.2.9

Rodriguez Araque points out that some Caribbean countries have greater storage capacity than others and that makes the difference.2.7

THE PEOPLE'S National Party will spend more than $7 million for this weekend's 67th annual conference and send-off for party leader P.J. Patterson.2.7

Qatar pledged $100 million in humanitarian assistance Saturday to help Americans recover from Hurricane Katrina, heading a list of more than a dozen countries joining an outpouring of support.

ISLAMABAD, September 04 : President General Pervez Musharraf has directed for consulting all alliances for selection of Nazims stressing sincere and honest candidates should be brought forward.2.9

Chilean beef imports increased 16% in the first seven months of 2005 compared to the same period in 2004, according to a report from the Santiago Chamber of Commerce.2.7

Visiting Chilean President Ricardo Lagos on Friday confirmed his support for the peace process in Colombia during a meeting with his Colombian counterpart Alvaro Uribe.3.1

The tiny Trumbull County community of Hartford and Hispanic Heritage Month don't seem to have a whole lot in common.

Andronico Luksic, the Chilean industrialist who died on August 19 aged 78, was one of the richest ... Andronico Luksic Abarao was born in Antofagasta on November 5 1926, the son of a Bolivian mother and a Croatian immigrant father who had arrived in Chile from the Adriatic island of Brac in 1910 and made a living in the nitrate industry.2

Pearl Jam will visit South America for the first time later this year ... The group will also visit Buenos Aires and four cities in Brazil, as well as play two Mexico shows in Monterrey and Mexico City.

Guatemala : Telefonica Moviles has launched its 3G mobile broadband services in Guatemala using CDMA2000 1xEV-DO technology from Nortel.2.7

President Bush, right, shakes hands with President of China Hu Jintao after their bilateral meeting at the APEC Summit in Santiago, Chile in this Nov.

TOMPKINS TAKES A STAND AGAINST SALMON INDUSTRY IN CHILE Parliamentarians and Local Authorities Fight Back U.S. businessman and ecologist Douglas Tompkins has launched a campaign to freeze further developments ...4

"Gas has been cut across Santiago... they simply shut off the supply," Luis Kohn, president of an industry body in the Quilicura industrial zone of northeastern Santiago, said yesterday.2.7

Brazilian stock prices closed slightly lower Thursday, giving up early gains on profit-taking and fresh developments in the country's ongoing political scandal.

A researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology is unraveling a mystery surrounding Easter Island.

When Chicagoist first heard about the Picador 10th anniversary event occurring next Thursday evening at the Harold Washington Library, we were excited.

LAHORE : Septem The Punjab University has decided to introduce a four-year B.Com-IT programme from the current academic session at its constituent Hailey College of Commerce as well as affiliated colleges, ...2.9

FINN reported last week that the help Matthei offered included intelligence aircraft and security for British commandos.2

BASSADOR KELLY LAUNCHES 'AMERICAN CORNERS' IN CHILE U.S. Cultural Project First Of Its Kind In Chile U.S. Ambassador Craig Kelly and chancellor of Diego Portales University Francisco Javier Cuadra officially ...4

Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator. Chile is still seeking to prosecute him.1.3

NEW DELHI: Former Indian cricket captain Mohammed Azharuddin, who has been provided round the clock security by Andhra Pradesh Police, says he has not received death threats from anyone.1.3

During the APEC leaders meeting in November 2004 in Chile, leaders of the APEC agreed that corruption was a serious threat to good governance and deterred investment.

Did David Childs really steal his Freedom Tower design from a Yale student? And can you call that stealing, or just the way the business works? Our critic explains how plagiarism exists in architecture, and why ...

NEW DELHI: The Indian sugar industry, which had been rejoicing at Pakistan lifting the import ban earlier this month, is upset at criticism from across the border about the quality of its products.1.3

RETRIEVAL OF BLUE WHALE SKELETON ADVANCES IN SOUTHERN CHILE Volunteers Brave Rough Seas to Create Museum Display A modest museum in Chiloe's town of Ancud will soon be home to the fourth-largest blue whale ...4

OTTAWA - In an incident with disturbing overtones of the famed Gimli glider, an Air Canada jet suffered an engine failure after a fuel tank ran dry over Chile, federal safety officials say.2.7

JEDDAH: Hussain Nawaz Sharif son of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif had married Abla Tagreed a Palestinian origin Lebanese girl without the consent of his family two years ago.2.9

CLOCKWISE FORM UPPER LEFT: Camping at Mt. Kenya ... The lost city of Machu Picchu ... and, in Tbilisi (the hospitable capital of Soviet Georgia), Walter's friends greeted us all with a champagne supper and free tickets to the Georgia ballet.1.3

OUR main difference from chimps and gorillas with whom we share a common ancestor is that over the past three million years or so, we have been shaped less and less by nature, and more and more by culture.2.7