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November 2008 - Posts

• Costa Rica is 10th as destination for U.S. students abroad

  Costa Rica hosted 5,383 U.S. students in 2006-2007, a slight drop from the previous year, according to statistics available on the Web site of the Institute for International Education. U.S. student participation in study abroad was up 8 percent in 2006-2007 Read More... Posted Sunday, November 30, 2008 3:39 PM by Nick Halverson | 0 Comments

• China's President Hu visits Costa Rica

  During Hu Jintao's visit to Costa Rica on Monday, the two nations agreed to begin negotiations on a free-trade agreement and work together to expand Costa Rica's national oil refinery. Read More... Posted Saturday, November 22, 2008 3:33 PM by Nick Halverson | 0 Comments Filed under: Costa Rica investment, Costa Rica business news

• Costa Rica Banana Industry aiming to be Carbon Neutral

  The Costa Rican banana industry is striving to obtain the “carbon neutral” seal Read More... Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 9:52 PM by Nick Halverson | 0 Comments Filed under: Costa Rica ecology, Costa Rica investment, Costa Rica business news

• Intel & Facebook Sign Agreement

  Intel announced that it struck an agreement to optimize Facebook’s hardware and software Read More... Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 9:42 PM by Nick Halverson | 0 Comments Filed under: Costa Rica investment, Costa Rica business news

• Costa Rica Tourism is Up

  In June, on a year to year basis, the number of tourists increased by 7 percent, Read More... Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 9:40 PM by Nick Halverson | 0 Comments Filed under: Costa Rica investment, Costa Rica tourism, costa rica vacation

• Monkey Populations Increasing

  The population of howling and white-headed capuchin monkeys is steadily increasing at Santa Rosa National Park, established in 1971 in the Costa Rican northwest Pacific region. Linda Fedigan, from Calgary University, Canada, reports that the populations Read More... Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 5:07 PM by Nick Halverson | 0 Comments Filed under: Costa Rica ecology

• NASA Testing Plasma Engines with Help of Costa Rica

  The team led by physicist and former astronaut Franklin Chang –tied in first place with the most NASA shuttle missions at 7—successfully tested the plasma engine that will eventually take man to Mars. After years with the Vasimr rocket in Read More... Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 5:06 PM by Nick Halverson | 0 Comments Filed under: Costa Rica investment

• Costa Rica Promoting Trade in the United States

  The Foreign Trade Promoter (PROCOMER in Spanish) is opening offices in New York, Los Angeles and Houston to strengthen its presence in the United States, the leading market for Costa Rican products. Read More... Posted Saturday, November 01, 2008 9:39 PM by Nick Halverson | 0 Comments Filed under: Costa Rica investment, Costa Rica business news