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Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias denied any knowledge of a 1.5 million dollar donation from Taiwan for his country’s poor, but which allegedly was diverted for pet projects elsewhere in the government. “I had no knowledge of this help from the government of Taiwan which I learned about from the press just recently,” he said in [...]
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event management security (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Version: 3.0 This critical security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft DirectX. These vulnerabilities could allow code execution if a user opened a specially crafted file used for streaming media in DirectX. If a user Read More - Project will attract more high technology investments to country. - Costa Rica’s [...]
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
- Project will attract more high technology investments to country.
- Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias to attend inauguration.
ESTERILLOS, Costa Rica, July 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global
Crossing (Nasdaq: ), a leading global IP solutions provider, today
announced the lighting of its new fiber-optic submarine cable in Esterillos
of Parrita, Puntarenas. Global Crossing; Instituto Costarricense...
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Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Costa Rica is most often thought of as a country with pristine coastlines, emerald mountains, and a relaxed vibe to vacation in. What is not often thought of are paramilitaries, assassins, and rouge police officers. In the last several decades the government of Costa Rica has sent at least 2,600 police officers to be trained at [...]
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Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Sugar Cane Will Be the Major Source For Costa Rica’s New Alternative Fuel. The entire Central American country of Costa Rica, known for its diverse wildlife and strikingly peaceful landscape, is doing all that it can to help preserve the beauty for the generations [and tourists] to come. President Oscar Arias has vowed to have the [...]
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Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The Ministro de Vivienda (Housing minister), Fernando Zumbado, has left his post temporarily while investigators dig into allegations of misuse of us$1.4 million dollars in funds donated the Government of Taiwan placed in a fideicomiso (trust fund), which was to be used to eradicate the “precarios” (slums) in Pavas. In a letter to Costa Rican president, [...]
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Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Costa Rica is saying goodbye to its 84-year-old insurance monopoly as it opens the industry to national and international competition. Lawmakers late Tuesday approved legislation to end the government-run Insurance Institute. President Oscar Arias is expected to sign it into law. Last month, Costa Rica broke up its state-run telecommunications monopoly. Washington demanded Costa Rica break up its [...]...
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Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Lawmakers voted this week to prohibit parents from spanking their kids. The bill, passed in a second vote Wednesday, would outlaw physical or emotional punishment or mistreatment of children. The proposal will become law once it is signed by President Oscar Arias. Ombudswoman Lisbeth Quesada, whose office proposed the bill in 2005, cheered the vote. Nothing justifies [...]
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Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
The months of tension between the governments of Oscar Arias and Raul Castro seem to have come to an end. There is frequent and growing dialog between the ministries of Foreign Affairs of the two nations, even though the absence of diplomatic relations remains. Minister Bruno Stagno has met several times with his Cuban peer [...]
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Costa Rica News, Travel and Reviews (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
First of all having lived in Costa Rica for years and being a resident here I am proud to be an Englishman living in Costa Rica. I have no intention of returning the UK as I prefer living in a country with freedom and that is open to entrepreneurship without throwing numerous taxes and [...]
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Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Oscar Arias is the current president of the country of Costa Rica. He first assumed office on May 8, 2006 and is currently serving his second term. He had first been elected president on May 8, 1986 and served until May 8, 1990. For more information on Costa Rica, check out ToucanEstate. President Arias is best [...]
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Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
The Costa Rican banana industry is intending to go carbon neutral in a joint effort to make the small Central American nation the first to offset all its carbon dioxide emissions by 2021. President Oscar Arias recently announced that Costa Rica aims to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2021, in time to [...]
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Global Politics Online (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Brazil creates Amazon Indian reservation (MSNBC) Brazo; President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva decreed a new 3.8 million acre Indian reservation Friday in the heart of the Amazon rain forest’s logging frontier. Ronaldinho may play for Brazil in Olympics (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News) SAO PAULO, Brazil - Ronaldinho could have a great Olympics [...]
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Article Archive (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Oscar Arias is the current president of the country of Costa Rica. President Arias is best known as one of the driving figures behind the end of the Central American civil wars.
