BUENOS ARIES, March 30 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) – Argentine dockworkers expanded the strike to eight terminals, mainly in the Greater Rosario port area with 5,000 trucks waiting to unload in the heart of the country’s soy bean belt. The conflict comes when Argentina, the world’s third exporter of the oil seed prepares to ship the latest crop. .
TOKYO, March 30 (NNN-Bernama) — A March survey released by the Labour Ministry in Japan on Tuesday, showed that some 269,790 non-permanent workers are expected to lose their jobs from October of last year to June. The survey shows the number of non-contracted workers, known as “hakken” in Japanese, has increased by 7,192 compared to .
MEXICO CITY, March 30 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Mexico will host the Cycling Tour Telmex-2010 on April 18-25 with 20 teams from Armenia, Britain, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Venezuela and the hosts. The organising committee said the 1,090Km (677,29 miles) race will be split into eight legs through the states of Veracruz, Tlaxcala, .
LA PAZ, March 30 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) – Bolivia is in the last leg ahead of Sun’s governor elections when President Evo Morales expects his party to keep control over seven of the nine provinces in dispute while the opposition will try to gain lost ground in recent votes. On Sun April 4, five million Bolivian registered .
BUENOS AIRES, March 30 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) – Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will head Fri April 2 in Ushuaia commemorations to honour Malvinas veterans and those fallen during the 1982 conflict over the Falklands with Britain, according to Tierra del Fuego press reports. The ceremony is scheduled Fri morning at the foot of the monument .
LIMA, March 30 (NNN-ANDINA) – The OAS Permanent Council convened an extraordinary meeting today to hear a lecture on the central theme of the forthcoming OAS General Assembly by Peru’s Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde. The meeting was held at the Liberator Simon Bolivar Room at the OAS headquarters in Washington DC, United States. .
LIMA, March 30 (NNN-ANDINA) – Over 50 Peruvian small and medium enterprises (SME’s) will participate in “ExpoPeru 2010 fair Central America” in Panama and Dominican Republic from April 19-22, Peru’s Export and Tourism Promotion Board (Promperu) said. Promperu’s export director, Juan Carlos Mathews said that the delegation is expected to consist of 100 Peruvian enterprises .
TEHRAN, March 30 (NNN-FNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast has blasted the baseless claims raised by the Arab League on the three Iranian Islands. Criticizing the Arab League for its statement on Iranian islands of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs in the Persian Gulf, Mehman-Parast called the move as blatant .
RAMALLAH, March 30 (NNN-KUNA) — Palestinian Land Day is marked once again amid continued Israeli attempts to stifle the Palestinians’ efforts to regain freedom and Judaization campaigns against their cities, holy sites, and historical landmarks. March 30 is the anniversary of the day back in 1976 when the Israelis confiscated Al-Jalil, sparking an all-out demonstration. .
TEHRAN, March 30 (NNN-IRNA) — The kidnapped Iranian diplomat in Pakistan, Heshmatollah Attarzadeh, was released during a successful operation, it was reported here on Tuesday. Iran’s Information Ministry announced that Attarzadeh was released during a “complicated intelligence operation” by Iranian intelligence forces and was returned to the country. The Iranian diplomat was abducted by armed .
