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africanews
February 28, 2018
His pieces usually criticizes the president and government officials, consequently there were fears that he may be charged with criminal defamation even ... a gifted and outspoken graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist born in Equatorial Guinea in West Africa and until very recently a resident in Paraguay,'ÃÂ ...
iPolitics.ca
February 28, 2018
Tuesday's budget also includes a commitment to continue pursuing trade discussions with the Pacific Alliance, MERCOSUR (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The federal government has also earmarked $191 million over five years,ÃÂ ...
Montgomery Community Media
February 28, 2018
Cardin and Chris Van Hollen have introduced a Senate Resolution honoring the life of Alex Villamayor, who was killed in Paraguay in June 2015, and asking the government of Paraguay to allow the FBI to investigate. Villamayor was born in Rockville, and he moved to Paraguay with his family when heÃÂ ...
Prensa Latina
February 27, 2018
Asuncion, Feb 26 (Prensa Latina) The public debt service of the Central Administration of the Paraguayan State had a considerable increase in the ... During the first year of the government of President Horacio Cartes (2013), the cost of paying the debt was 254.2 million dollars at the current change, but itÃÂ ...
Xinhua
February 19, 2018
MONTEVIDEO, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay will push their joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup during this year's edition of football's biggest tournament in Russia, officials said on Monday. Government representatives from the three South American nations met in the UruguayanÃÂ ...
MercoPress
February 17, 2018
The Canadian government plans to open free trade talks with the four-nation Mercosur trading bloc in South America at a time when the future of NAFTA is facing increasing uncertainty. Canada sends around 75% of its goods exports to the United States and is looking for new markets to reduce the relianceÃÂ ...
eNCA
February 16, 2018
"We intend to open negotiations for a potential agreement with Mercosur in Paraguay the day after the signing of the TPP, which will take place in Chile on ... billion (US$621 billion) last year, with 70 percent of Canadian exports going to its southern neighbor, according to Canadian government figures.
CBC.ca
February 15, 2018
Paraguay currently holds the rotating presidency in the bloc, which is why talks will take place there. ... The Trudeau government has insisted that it is not negotiating new trade deals as an alternative to NAFTA, but rather as part of an ongoing mission to expand Canada's trading opportunities around theÃÂ ...
Taipei Times
February 7, 2018
About 94 percent of the nation's beef is imported from the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Paraguay, government data showed. US beef imports total 109,522 tonnes per year and Australia imports 43,099 tonnes, while Taiwan only produces about 6,800 tonnes, the data showed. Morton's isÃÂ ...
Markets Insider
February 6, 2018
These investments will allow the company to serve the growing beverage can market in Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina, and to support various customer ... surrounding geopolitical events and governmental policies both in the U.S. and in other countries, including the U.S. government elections, budget,ÃÂ ...
Business News
February 5, 2018
ASX-listed DroneShield has hit a major milestone in the rapidly expanding South American security market, winning a tender for its drone defence and disabling products with the Paraguayan Government. In a market update this week, DroneShield said it had won a Paraguay Government tender involvingÃÂ ...
Gulf Times
February 4, 2018
The initial campaign to collect mangoes was enlarged to include an agreement with some private institutions and non-governmental organisations to select the ... Paraguay is not yet exporting mangoes, but local entrepreneurs have plans to sell them to Taiwan and South Korea, government official NelsonÃÂ ...
Bonds & Loans
January 22, 2018
Low taxes, low wages and low overheads are driving the Paraguayan government's ambition to become the "China of South America": a low-cost manufacturing hub that attracts investment from across the region. As Brazil struggles through its worst recession on record, dozens of businesses have set upÃÂ ...
Lonely Planet Travel News
January 11, 2018
A stunning display of giant water lilies have appeared along a river in Paraguay, delighting locals and travellers alike with their beauty and size. ... A European explorer for the British government came across the Victoria amazonica plant, which belongs to the same genus, in what is now Guyana back inÃÂ ...
Markets Insider
January 10, 2018
Prior to becoming registered as official medicines, in May of 2016, Real Scientific Hemp Oil™ became the first medical cannabis product approved and imported for use in Paraguay for compassionate use with a prescription and government permission. This event marked the third time in a little over a yearÃÂ ...
FederalNewsRadio.com
January 10, 2018
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Authorities in the Paraguayan border town of Ciudad del Este have temporarily closed a shop accused of selling transgender dolls. Mayor Sandra McLeon justified Tuesday's closure by noting that the city, most widely known as a smuggling and counterfeiting haven, last yearÃÂ ...
AL DIA News
January 9, 2018
Shows in Spanish would be subtitled and dubbed in Guarani and vice-versa. The bill would also require a requirement that information on government Web sites or official social-media accounts be available in both tongues. Paraguay's most recent language census, taken in 1992, showed that 90 percentÃÂ ...
Taiwan News
January 9, 2018
Speaking of the bilateral relations, President Tsai said the quota for Paraguay's beef sales to Taiwan had reached 10,000 tons per year, and that the government intended to further increase the number this year. As of now, it is not known exactly how much the quota will be raised. In addition, President TsaiÃÂ ...
High Times
January 9, 2018
The government of Paraguay has approved a hemp oil CBD product for use as a medicine. In other words, the government of Paraguay approves medical marijuana treatment by way of a certain line of products that do not have psychoactive effects. The move by the South American country's healthÃÂ ...
Americas Quarterly
December 18, 2017
Paraguay still faces dramatic challenges. It has stubbornly high poverty levels, and a government with limited capacity to raise taxes to provide better public services to the poor. It also has one of the most unequal land distributions in the world – over three-quarters of its arable land is controlled by 1 percentÃÂ ...
MercoPress
December 31, 1999
The United Kingdom and Argentina presented on Monday to the Paraguayan foreign ministry a joint letter requesting assistance in contacting airlines in the ... Last week the Falklands government made public a release on the initiative of a new weekly scheduled air service to third countries, calling forÃÂ ...
Borneo Bulletin Online
December 31, 1999
The initial campaign to collect mangoes was enlarged to include an agreement with some private institutions and non-governmental organisations to select ... Paraguay is not yet exporting mangoes, but local entrepreneurs have plans to sell them to South Korea, government official Nelson Farina told theÃÂ ...
STRATFOR
December 31, 1999
The bloodshed is long in the past, but Paraguay remains caught between its larger neighbors. Its position as a buffer state between them means that it remains largely at the mercy of the governments in Brasilia and Buenos Aires on matters of trade. Now, however, it appears as if the government inÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 1, 2017
Representatives from Chile, Mexico and Paraguay are observing the talks at the request of the opposition. Meanwhile, officials from Bolivia, Nicaragua and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are participating at the request of the government. This round of dialogue, which will run throughout the weekend, ...
teleSUR English
November 30, 2017
Along with St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Chile, Paraguay, and Mexico will participate in the talks. The Foreign Minister of the Dominican Republic Miguel Vargas told the press Tuesday that representatives from business, academic and human rights sectors of Venezuela will also ...
Latin American Herald Tribune
November 29, 2017
ASUNCION – Paraguay's government unveiled on Tuesday the “Auto familiar” plan, a joint venture with Brazilian manufacturers to sell new automobiles priced at ... The plan was presented on the terrace of the Government Palace, where Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes and Brazilian Development, Industry and ...
AllGov
November 29, 2017
M. Lee McClenny, a career member of the Foreign Service, was appointed October 26, 2017, to be ambassador to Paraguay. ... With no ambassador at the embassy because of poor relations between the governments of the United States and Venezuela, McClenny bore the brunt of that government's ...
Nearshore Americas
November 29, 2017
The government is introducing a program to ensure that English is studied from elementary school, but – as is often echoed in other Latin nations – there are simply not enough teachers to make this viable, meaning the country has a long road to walk before English becomes one of its strengths.
Aljazeera.com
November 25, 2017
Eighty percent of cannabis produced in Paraguay is smuggled to Brazil, ... between the landowners and the Paraguayan government. Cabanas ...
New York Times
November 23, 2017
Many of the 25 food trucks serve Paraguayan beef in various forms, like ... the neoclassical seat of government, built by and named after the ...
BirdLife International
November 20, 2017
This Monday November 20th, BirdLife's Partner in Paraguay ... in San Rafael have been donated so that the Paraguayan Government can ...
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
November 16, 2017
A judge in Paraguay approved the extradition of Nicolas Leoz, the former president of South America's soccer confederation, on Thursday. ... A key government witness at the U.S. trial of three former South American soccer officials charged in the FIFA bribery scandal said on Thursday that for long, the ...
News & Observer
November 16, 2017
A judge in Paraguay approved the extradition of Nicolas Leoz, the former ... A key government witness at the U.S. trial of three former South ...
Hornet Stories (blog)
November 8, 2017
Paraguay's Recent Ban on 'Gender Ideology' Is Merely the Start of an ... Secretariat, the only pro-LGBTQ official in the national government. ... rid of the Minister of the Women's Secretariat, a governmental position the official ...
Latin American Herald Tribune
November 7, 2017
ASUNCION – Paraguay's deputy foreign relations minister, Federico Gonzalez, ... The Paraguayan government allocated $98 million for social spending during ...
The Guardian
November 7, 2017
Paraguay's government, fretting that the country was regarded as a waystation for smugglers and that its economic resilience was being ...
Brown Political Review
November 2, 2017
Despite the country's central role in the South American drug trade, the Paraguayan government has historically done little to combat the ...
Business News Americas
October 31, 2017
Paraguayan lawmakers and government officials met with representatives of the insurance industry and other sectors to discuss a farm ...
Global Voices Online
October 31, 2017
In Paraguay alone, between 700 or 800 varieties of mandioca (also called ... Although the Paraguayan government is committed to supporting ...
Solomon Star
October 30, 2017
... with the Government and people of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in ... Paraguay and Saint Vincent and their spouses on a week-long visit ...
HydroWorld
October 30, 2017
The government of Paraguay has opened a new bidding process to construct a 10 MW plant on the country's Ypane River, following the ...
Christian News Network
October 29, 2017
(Evangelical Focus) — The Ministry of Education and Science of Paraguay has issued a resolution prohibiting “the dissemination and use of ...
Central Banking
October 23, 2017
Earlier this month, the Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP) underwent a ... positions in different governmental and private institutions for a day.
PinkNews
October 20, 2017
Schools in Paraguay will no longer be able to teach an LGBT inclusive curriculum, after changes announced by the Government. The Ministry ...
teleSUR English
October 18, 2017
One of Paraguay's largest worker confederations, the National Intersectoral Coordinator, or CNI, has announced plans for nationwide protests ...
NBCNews.com
October 17, 2017
Paraguay's Ministry of Education banned public schools from using or ... Education Minister Enrique Riera said the government recognizes ...
World Casino Directory
October 11, 2017
In Paraguay, the head of the nation's La Comision Nacional de Juegos ... stamp out illegal gambling and needs additional government funding.
teleSUR English
October 8, 2017
Small campesinos have been badly hit by the weather - Paraguay .... the government agreed on Wednesday to implement the emergency ... About 100,000 victims of the weather could now benefit from governmental support.
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
September 24, 2017
Paraguay: Government Pro Transparency Agreement Between ... "On Free Access to Public Information and Governmental Transparency" (the ...
Frontera
September 20, 2017
The Paraguayan government has argued that the agricultural sector contributes too little to the country when compared to other sectors.
