Latin America & Asia in focus
China Launches Venezuela’s Resource Monitoring Satellite
[Source] : Ooska News
BEIJING (Space Flight Now) — China launched Venezuela’s second satellite on Saturday, delivering the spacecraft into a 400-mile-high orbit to monitor the country’s territory, survey crops and natural resources, and aid Venezuela.
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Wine: Chilean winemakers set sights on China
[Source] : The Financial Times
By Adam Thomson
It is a bright, spring morning in Chile’s Maipo Valley and at the sprawling vineyard of Cousiño Macul, one of Chile’s smaller wine producers, a tour guide asks visitors to guess what its newest export market is. “China,” he tells the astonished group.
Sales abroad have more than quadrupled since 2000, reaching a record 700m litres with a value of $1.7bn last year. Those figures have helped turn the country in to the world’s fifth-largest wine exporter.
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Japan, Colombia to Launch Free Trade Talks
[Source] : The Journal of Commerce
Hisane Masaki, Special Correspondent | Sep 26, 2012 1:01PM GMT
The Journal of Commerce Online – News Story
Colombia’s FTA partners include the U.S. and Canada
Japan and Colombia have agreed to launch formal negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) aimed at eliminating import tariffs on most products traded between the two countries.
The agreement came when Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos met in New York on Tuesday, the Japanese government said on Wednesday. The two leaders are in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) said that Japan and Colombia have yet to discuss a specific schedule for the FTA negotiations.
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