Bogota neighborhood celebrates Epiphany
Source: SF Gate
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2012-04-29 18:19:43 -0700 | political-news
Guillermo Legaria / AFP/Getty Images Youngsters take part in a street parade during festivities celebrating Epiphany at Egypt neighbourhood in Bogota, Colombia, on January 9, 2012. About 4,000 people attended the 97th edition of the celebrations for the Three Wise...
Tea Party buys in to trade
Source: The Hill
Seoul :: South Korea | updated 2011-12-18 17:47:50 -0800 | political-news
Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) told The Hill a consensus formed among the newcomers that the trade deals deserved their support. I think what you are seeing demonstrated in the freshman class is that we are willing take on that political...
Economix Blog: Whose Jobs Are at Risk in Free Trade
Source: The New York Times
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2011-12-12 20:10:30 -0800 | political-news
With Congress expected on Wednesday to take up trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama as well as a benefits package for workers who lose their jobs to foreign competition, the Joint Economic Committee of Congress has released a...
Colombia seeks truce in oil workers strike
Source: Los Angeles Times
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2011-11-22 02:24:52 -0800 | travel-news
Reporting from Bogota The Colombian government is trying to broker peace between striking oil workers and their Canadian employer after violent clashes between protesters and police forced the closure of the country's two most important oil fields. Toronto-based Pacific Rubiales...
Poultry grows 4.6% in First Half of 2011
Posted by: saadkhan
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2012-04-07 10:06:24 -0700 | business-news
According to data reported by the National Federation of Poultry Farmers, FENAVI, grew by 4.6% in the first half of 2011, compared to 4.3% over the same period in 2010.The figures show that the poultry subsector showed an increase of...
Outside the Box: Grading Obama’s speech: Barely passing
Source: MarketWatch
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2011-11-15 15:02:28 -0800 | political-news
The political clans gathered last night to hear President Obama make a political speech in front of a Joint Session of Congress. The purpose of the address was to put forth his newest program to shake off the economic doldrums...
Analysts' view: What Obama should propose on job creation (Reuters)
Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2011-11-08 14:58:43 -0800 | political-news
President Barack Obama on Thursday is expected to offer a plan to jump-start flagging U.S. job growth that relies on a package of tax cuts and government spending that could cost upward of $200 billion. With the U.S. recovery at...
Transport Minister proposes a new system of concessions
Posted by: saadkhan
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2012-04-07 10:09:35 -0700 | business-news
To carry out these works Germain Cardona raised to create a new system of concessions, "where grantees to participate in bidding for further work in Colombia must be in Colombia Stock Exchange ..." which would attest to the transparency that...
Drugs: cocaine seized 300 million euros
Posted by: mus1423
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2012-04-07 10:14:04 -0700 | business-news
The Financial Police of La Spezia has seized cocaine to 300 million euros. The drugs were hidden in a hollow carved in a container from Colombia via Gioia Tauro directed to Genoa. It 'was the intuition of a financier and...
Harper in Colombia to talk up trade before deal kicks in next week
Source: Macleans
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2011-10-10 21:26:04 -0700 | political-news
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has arrived in Colombia, where a free-trade deal goes into effect next week. He will participate in a roundtable talk with business leaders before meeting Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos...Two-way trade between Canada and Colombia was...
Smartphone Adoption, Broadband Plan Drives Data Growth in Colombia, Pyramid Finds
Source: PR Newswire
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2011-10-13 19:04:52 -0700 | sports-news
Colombia 's national broadband plan and smartphone adoption will provide a platform for data growth through 2016, according to a new report from Pyramid Research ( www.pyr.com ). Colombia: Government Broadband Plan Generates Opportunities for Operators offers a precise profile...
"Worlds Largest Emerald" On Display
Posted by: Mohammad Shabbir Murtaza
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2012-04-13 14:03:58 -0700 | business-news
The worlds largest emerald was discovered in the year 1999 in the Colombion city of Boyaca. This emerald weighs two and a half kg. It has upto 15,000 carats. It is being displayed for the first time for the public...
Obama fighting for jobless aid
Source: Telegram & Gazette
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2011-07-17 21:29:53 -0700 | political-news
The White House is threatening to hold up final passage of three coveted free trade agreements unless lawmakers agree to expand retraining assistance for American workers who lose their jobs because of foreign competition. The move comes as administration officials...
Colombia Raises Interest Rate to 3.75% to Head Off Inflationary Pressure
Posted by: imranulhaq
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2012-11-02 01:24:59 -0700 | business-news
Colombia’s central bank increased borrowing costs for a third month in a bid to head off inflationary pressure while also pledging to maintain efforts to restrain the peso’s rally. The seven-member board increased the benchmark interest rate a quarter point...
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