Costa Rica News Archives for January, 2008

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A year of generous and kind souls
Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton,NY,USABefore you grow weary of reading year-in-review stories, let me offer one with a twist: a look back at the generous acts of local residents. The year in giving, if you will. (...) About Tier native Christina Muscatello and her effort to raisemoney to build a library for children in a poor village in Costa Rica -- an effort that...

"The Choking Game" is the No. 1 Teens & 20s story for 2007.
Burlington Times News - Burlington,NC,USA
Mission trip to Costa Rica — Jimmy Branley, a student at WesternAlamance High School, documented a mission trip to Costa Rica. His first-person account was...

Vietnam, Libya among new non-permanent members of UNSC
Hindu - Chennai,India
31, 2008), Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Libya, Croatia and Costa Rica,which will begin two-term on January one. This will the second term on the Council for...

Green Sea Turtles Reemerging
Washington Post - United States
So scientists from six major nesting sites in Japan, Hawaii, Australia, Costa Rica and Florida collaborated in an analysis of how many females had returned...

Where Is The Land Of Opportunity
Canada Free Press - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Just recently he went to Costa Rica with his family, and had aterrific time. Since Tim’s business is highly automated, he didn’t have to worry about it...

LaserCard Corporation Signs $1.7 Million Contract With Costa Rican ...
PR-USA.net (press release) - Varna,Bulgaria
LaserCard Corporation (NASDAQ:LCRD), a leading provider of secure ID solutions, today announced the award of a contract by the government of Costa Rica...

Many new developments changed travel this year
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
Central America's popularity: In addition to Costa Rica, awashin tourism, increasing numbers of Americans are traveling or thinking about traveling to...

Latin America 2007: Best & Worst
Latin Business Chronicle - Miami,FL,USA
Costa Rica CAFTA Approval. On October 7, 2007, a slim majority- 51.6 percent - voted in a referendum to approve the country joiningCAFTA.

Costa Rica highway reaches financial close
IJ Online - London,UK
Itinere Infraestructuras has reached financial close to build atoll highway that will link the cities of Caldera and San José in CostaRica.

Malawi May Break Diplomatic Ties With Taiwan, Switch to China
Bloomberg - USA
Taiwan said on June 7 it would sever ties with Costa Rica, which hasformally recognized China. Costa Rica was the eighth country tobreak ties with Taiwan...

Saprissa draws 2-2 with Herediano, claims third straight Costa
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
AP SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Saprissa won its third straight CostaRican league title Sunday, holding on for a 2-2 draw with Herediano toclaim a 26th...

Two men convicted in Costa Rica murder
CPJ Press Freedom Online - New York,NY,USA
A court in San José, Costa Rica’s capital, convicted businessmanOmar Chaves of ordering Medina’s murder, and gunman Luis Alberto Aguirre Jaime of carrying...

Costa Rica Reports Record Pot Bust
The Associated Press -
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rican agents made the largestmarijuana bust in the Central American nation's history, seizing 4.85tons of the drug found...

Knight: Fans seeking player of the year
Globe and Mail - Canada
Julian de Guzman, with two blazing goals from the midfield as Canada scored a solid win over arch-rivals Costa Rica at the 2007 Gold Cup.

Sacyr, FCC Agree $247 Million Costa Rica Loan, Negocios Reports
Bloomberg - USA
Contratas SA have agreed on the terms of a $247 million loanto build a 76.8-kilometer (47.7-mile) highway in Costa Rica,Negocios reported...

Ecotourism Task Force to Meet in CostaRica
Tico Times - San José,Costa Rica
CostaaRica is set to host the next meeting of the International TaskForce on Sustainable Tourism Development in February. In an interview printed in this week's print edition of The Tico Times, Claire Hughes, a British Embassy adviser hired to assess Costa Rica's Peace with Nature initiative, points to tourism's potential for destruction, saying, people come in, make their money, build their hotels and condos, then they're gone, on to the next place. What is CostaRica left with? (...)

Soccer balls help bridge economic divide between NoCo and Costa Rica
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA
BY LYNDSEY STRUTHERS While touring the villages of CostaRica andseeing how little the locals had, the owner of a local adventure travel company began kicking around ideas of how he could help. (...)

Costa Rica to serve as non-permanent member of UN security Council
Xinhua - China
Costa Rican Foreign Minister Bruno Stagno said Friday that his country will serve as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for two years starting on Jan. 1. This Central American country will work to improve the cooperation between the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court (ICC) in fighting crimes against humanity, Stagno, who was attending a 15-day ICC meeting in New York, said in a communique. (...)