Santiago, Chile News

Fans in Asia stayed awake into the wee hours, bars across Europe held Michael Jackson theme nights and TV stations from Sydney to Paris cleared their schedules today to broadcast the King of Pop's star-studded memorial service from Los Angeles.

SANTIAGO, Chile - Tens of thousands of Chilean government employees are on strike to protest what they say are unfair labor policies.

Santiago, Chile, Jul 7 More than one hundred Mapuche leaders, who marched to Santiago from several southern communities, presented a letter at La Moneda Presidential Palace on Tuesday with reports of police repression against them.

A few years ago, amateur photographer Robert Crowe discovered a bizarre and mysterious message embedded in the asphalt of a downtown street.

July 3, 2009, Condor Resources Inc. announces that it has granted Oretech Resources Inc.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty: 'We are concerned, of course, with the reality of rising unemployment.

Talk about self-delusion! The grotesque spectacle of a 52-year-old thug with a graying pompadour, stripped to his briefs in front of a mirror gracelessly imitating John Travolta 's dance moves from "Saturday Night Fever," haunts Pablo Larrain's film "Tony Manero" like a nightmare apparition.

Santiago, Chile, Jun 30 Cuba hopes to receive 2.30 million foreign visitors this year, in spite of negative effects of the financial crisis and the A virus, a Cuban Tourism Ministry official said.

GI Dynamics, a leader in non-surgical treatments for type 2 diabetes and obesity, today announced results from a pilot clinical study which demonstrated the substantially enhanced weight loss effects of combining the company's EndoBarrier Gastrointestinal Liner with a new EndoBarrier Flow Restrictor.

Southern Energy Company, Inc. , a publicly traded resource exploration company, is pleased to announce that effective Monday, June 29, 2009, the Company will commence trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Germany under the trading symbol "8CE". The Company is pleased to have obtained this secondary listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Santiago, Chile, Jun 25 Chilean presidential candidate Jorge Arrate, from the left-wing Juntos Podemos Mas , called on other hopefuls to hold a democratic debate to install a new Political Constitution in the State.

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Santiago, Chile, Jun 22 Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who is to start a visit to the United States Monday, will analyze with US statesman Barack Obama bilateral and regional ties.

SANTIAGO, Chile - Hortensia Bussi, the widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende who helped lead opposition to the military dictatorship that ousted her socialist husband in a bloody 1973 coup, died Thursday.

Lisbon, Portugal - Global factions divided on whaling and conservation targets will come together next week in Portugal with one over-riding hope: just to avoid their organisation coming apart at the seams.

Incredible new digital technology, rising healthcare costs, world-wide pandemics, a move toward more personal responsibility and shifting demographics - all of these factors are leading to dramatic changes in the way healthcare services are delivered.

Is a DJ a musician? Some say yes, some say no. If you say yes, what happens when the DJ ditches the turntable and kicks on the Serato? Are they still musicians? And what about the Pioneer CDJ folks? Or the Apple core crowd? Are they musicians too? The question is as old as disco and has been revived at least as many times.

TEI will supply three high-pressure feedwater heaters for each plant. Each feedwater heater is designed and manufactured to the specific thermal conditions of each plant.

"Do it." That's the advice Valentina Cordova would give if she had a high school friend who was considering the Rotary Youth Exchange Program.

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