Trade pacts could boost Texas, but other states wary
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2011-02-14 08:08:07 -0800 | political-news
That represents a major recovery from the recession and already puts Texas exports well ahead of the full-year totals for 2009 and 2007. Trade groups like the North Texas District Export Council think exports would be higher still if Congress...
20 missing in landslide in Colombia
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2011-03-28 04:04:21 -0700 | green-news
Three people were rescued at the scene of the landslide, and searchers were trying to locate survivors, Uruena said. Advertisement: Story continues below Medellin is 400km northwest of Bogota. Colombia has been lashed in recent weeks by heavy rains that...
Victor Bout pleads not guilty
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2011-01-22 23:56:22 -0800 | political-news
Story continues below He faces a maximum penalty of life in prison and minimum of 25 years if found guilty...Bangkok was in fact a US undercover agent from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Despite his allegedly lucrative weapons empire, Bout...
Obama lays out plan to meet export goal
Source: Seattle Times
Upi :: Philippines | updated 2010-11-16 18:06:58 -0800 | political-news
President Barack Obama says this year's 18 percent rise in exports over last year underscores the importance of selling goods and services abroad to create jobs and strengthen the American economy. Obama says the more that countries export, the more...
Coffee prices poised to come off the boil
Source: New Zealand Herald
Medellín :: Colombia | updated 2010-11-13 19:08:42 -0800 | political-news
Supplies of arabica, the world's most-grown coffee, will exceed demand by 6.67 million 60kg bags in the year ending in September 2011, according to ABN Amro Bank and VM Group. That's the most in nine years and more than six...
Uribe's Colombia: The dark side of a country transformed
Source: The Guardian
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2010-10-07 05:08:09 -0700 | travel-news
Scott Dalton/AP The rule of thumb on Colombia 's country roads used to be that if no cars were coming the other way, leftist rebels had probably blocked the highway to trap potential kidnap victims...So every time he set out...
Chiquita Murder Trial Highlights Importance of Socially Responsible Business in Colombia
Posted by: LatinAmericanLens
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2010-02-05 12:52:03 -0800 | business-news
Friday, February 5, 2010 According to recent court filings, Chiquita Brands International Inc. (NYSE:CQB), owner of the Chiquita banana company, will face a lawsuit that accuses it of illegally providing support to left-wing criminal groups in Colombia who murdered five...
Nuclear failure may show limits of computers
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
San Onofre :: Colombia | updated 2013-06-18 17:37:59 -0700 | business-news
I've been marveling at the ever-increasing power of computing most of my life, beginning when I wrote my first program for pay at 16, discovered Led Zeppelin and bought my first truly great car stereo. But lately, as computer models...
Netflix Stock Draws the Line
Source: The Motley Fool
Turbo :: Colombia | updated 2013-06-18 05:33:23 -0700 | business-news
The multiyear deal announced this morning calls for 300 hours of new programming streaming exclusively on Netflix starting next year. Netflix and DreamWorks Animation already have a deal in place for Turbo: F.A.S.T. to stream on Netflix come December.
Should I Buy These Shares?
Source: The Motley Fool
Bogotá :: Colombia | updated 2013-06-17 20:28:39 -0700 | business-news
Watch stocks you care about The single, easiest way to keep track of all the stocks that matter.....I've been popping stocks into my shopping basket in recent weeks and it's time I took one or two to the checkout...In April,...
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