Panama set to begin $5bn project
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Panama is set to start work on a $5bn (Â£2.4bn) project to widen the Panama Canal to increase its capacity.
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The economy of Latin America and the Caribbean grew 5.5 percent this year, outstripping the most optimistic forecasts. But structural challenges linked by many experts to neo-liberal economics stand in the
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Panama blasted away part of a hillside next to the canal on Monday, marking the start of the waterway's biggest expansion since it opened 93 years ago.
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Mexico&#39;s Cemex, the world&#39;s third-largest cement maker, is set to buy Britain&#39;s RMC Group in a $5 billion deal to be announced Monday, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Societa' opera a Panama con una centrale di 300 Mw
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Jamaica&#39;s government on Tuesday announced a US$5 million (Jamaican $308 million) plan to provide free Internet access in poor communities across the island.
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A $180m five-year project to revive the depleted soils of sub-Saharan Africa is launched in Nairobi.
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Construction to start on major section of China's south-north water project, 212,000 people to be relocated    ZHENGZHOU, Sept.
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A five-year plan to create safer, cleaner and greener neighbourhoods is unveiled by the prime minister.
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Martin Torrijos Espino was sworn in as the new Panamanian president on Wednesday in the Atlapa Conventions Center of the capital. In his speech at the inauguration ceremony
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Nicaragua proposes a new inter-oceanic waterway that would carry bigger ships than the Panama Canal.
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SYDNEY Xstrata, the world&#39;s biggest exporter of power-station coal, offered 7.4 billion Australian dollars, or $5.5 billion, for WMC Resources on Thursday to add nickel and copper mines to its portfolio.
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Pimco, the world's biggest bond fund, has been selected by the World Bank to manage a planned $5 billion local currency bond fund for emerging economies.
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Venezuela plans talks with Panama next week on the possibility of pumping oil from the Caribbean to the Pacific through an existing pipeline, Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez said Wednesday.
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By Daniel Carson, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Dec.
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Panama's new President Martin  Torrijos vowed on Wednesday to mend diplomatic ties with Cuba,  ruptured last week when his predecessor pardoned four men  jailed for plotting to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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Upstarts Guatemala and Panama  face crunch matches against more experienced CONCACAF opponents  Saturday as they continue their quest to qualify for a first  World Cup.