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December 5, 2014Chile raises $2 bln in sovereign debt issue
Chile raised $2 billion via a double bond placement on Wednesday, which Finance Minister Alberto Arenas said was the country's biggest sovereign issue since it returned to democracy and international debt markets in 1990.
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December 5, 2014
Enel Green Power starts up 99MW wind farm in Chile
Italy's Enel Green Power started up the 99MW Taltal wind farm in Chile. The US$190mn park will generate approximately 300GWh/y, the company said in a release.
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November 15, 2014
Chile and China; Food and drink draw two regions together
A FEW YEARS ago some Chinese oenologists with almost no Spanish arrived in one of Chile’s most prestigious wine regions, the Colchagua Valley, to buy a vineyard. They were from Cofco, a big state-owned Chinese food and drink manufacturer whose Great Wall wines are quaffed by the country’s aspirant middle classes.
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November 14, 2014
Glencore, Mick Davis among suitors of Anglo' s Chile mines
Commodity group Glencore and X2, a company set up by former Xstrata boss Mick Davis, are among the suitors of the Chilean copper assets put up for sale by global miner Anglo American, industry and banking sources said this week.
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October 29, 2014
Climate Change Concerns Push Chile to Forefront of Carbon Tax Movement
These are rough times for carbon taxes, aimed at mitigating climate change. Australia recently repealed its carbon tax. South Korea delayed a carbon-based tax on vehicle emissions. South Africa put off a planned carbon tax until 2016. And yet, for environmentalists, a sliver of hope exists in the shape of Chile, one of Latin America’s fastest-growing economies, which last month approved the first carbon tax in South America. The measure, due to take effect in 2018, was part of a broad overhaul of the tax system.
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September 24, 2013
CHILE: STRATEGIC PARTNER AND HUB FOR INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
CARLOS HONORATO Director of Pro Chile Chilean Government Trade and Investment Office
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