Air China will launch a new flight between Beijing and Panamá City, via Houston in March 2018. The service was announced by Cai Jian Jiang, Air China’s President, during Juan Carlos Valera’s presidential visit to the Chinese state. Additionally, Valera remarked through his Twitter account that Air China will operate two flights per week. “Two days […]
This is a great article that appeared in the National Review. If the 1980s can be defined as the revival of American exceptionalism and the American spirit, courtesy of Ronald Reagan and conservatism, then the 1970s can be defined as much the opposite. The ’70s saw Richard Nixon’s resignation amid the scandal of Watergate; the […]
The Buenaventura Golf & Beach Resort, which is located in Panama’s Buenaventura resort community, joined Marriott International’s Autograph Collection Hotels following the completion of a renovation to enhance its guestrooms, restaurants and meeting spaces, as well as the addition of the Buenaventura Zoo. The Buenaventura was built around a 100-year-old Corotu tree, incorporating Panamanian elements […]
The Jamaica Observer writes of their culinary experiences in Panama. A typical Panamanian meal usually includes lots of pork, coconut rice and beans complete with local fruits and vegetables such as yucca, squash and plantains. A popular dessert, which I highly recommend, is Pastel Tres Leches. This is a rich, creamy pudding-like cake made with […]
Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela Tuesday highlighted the newly established diplomatic ties with China as one of the major accomplishments of his past year in office. “2017 was successful for Panama and Panamanians,” Varela said in his state of the nation speech to the National Assembly, adding the establishment of diplomatic ties with China last […]
My friend Duncan McGowan wrote this great article highlighting some of Panama’s achievements last year. Panama was an island in the storm in 2017, as political and economic turmoil gripped North America and Europe. It was a much different story in Panama, where global investments expanded and the economy continued to surge, providing strong drivers […]
Bottlenose dolphins in Panama’s Bocas Del Toro Archipelago should be designated as endangered say the authors of a new study. Biologists working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute discovered that the roughly 80 dolphins in the archipelago do not interbreed with other Caribbean bottlenose dolphins. Their low numbers jeopardize their long-term survival, which is threatened […]
Fred Fleet writes in International Living about life on the beach in Panama. In 2005, when our friend told my wife and me that he had purchased beachfront property in Panama, I thought he was crazy. After several months of research, I decided that not only was he a genius, but I joined him as […]
Solar Steel, a division of Gonvarri Steel Services, will supply 45.6MW of its TracSmart Single-Axis trackers for a PV project located in David, in the state of Chiriquí, Panama. The PV project is divided into four phases of 11.4MW, with each segment tabbed for an expected completion date by mid-2018. TracSmart’s self-powered and wireless trackers […]
On March 10, 1970, when Kurboon Idliev was 23 years old, Soviet helicopters landed in the remote Yaghnob Valley in northwest Tajikistan and forcibly removed every person from their house. “They transferred us to the lower flatlands to work on cotton plantations. Those who resisted were killed,” he recalls now. It would be 47 years […]