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Costa Rica hosts international surfing games

Posted by Website Introductions: True to its reputation of a solid surfing nation, Costa Rica will play host to the 2009 International Surfing Association World Surfing Games. As the title of the competition implies, this will feature some of the best surfers around the globe. Treat yourself to some surfing delight and visit this news article for more information about the Games.
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Costa Rican food prices highest in the region, says study

Posted by Website Introductions: Costa Rica may be one of the most developed countries in Central America, but is surely has the most expensive food items in the region. This is what the results of a recent economic survey has showed. The study, conducted by the Costa Rican consumer protection agency, shows that the nation has the highest prices for basic food items in the
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Costa Rica prohibits child beating

Posted by Website Introductions: Moving out of its old ways, the Costa Rican government has finally passed a law that will prohibit parents and anyone with legal authority to beat, pinch, and discipline minors through physical or emotional distress. Costa Rica is the second country to sign such a law in the region, but it will still come a long way before Costa Ricans finally
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Coffee production expected to go down

Posted by Website Introductions: Coffee is one of Costa Rica's most largely produced crops, at more than one million 60-kilogram bags of coffee beans every year. The Costa Rican Coffee Institute has predicted that coffee production in the nation will go down by as much as 5.5% this crop year. For more details about this piece of news, visit Inside Costa Rica. News: [link]
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Real estate sales plummet

Posted by Website Introductions: The housing crisis the United States is not contained in the superpower alone. The crisis has also spilled to favorite vacation destination Costa Rica. Due to the difficulty of financing, American buyers are discouraged from buying their vacations homes here in the country. This has resulted to the dramatic drop of real estate sales. The Costa
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Costa Rica upgrades risk rating

Posted by Website Introductions: Lender confidence will further boost in Costa Rica as the nation received an upgrade in its risk rating. From a satisfactory Stable rating, it was upgraded to a Positive. It currently has a grade of BB for long-term loans, which means Costa Rica is safe for loans in the short-term. More info may be read here in The Beach Times. News: The Beach
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Environmental court cracks down illegal developments

Posted by Website Introductions: The environment is what brings the economy of Costa Rica afloat. Its sheer beauty attracts millions of tourists every year, bringing in millions and millions of US dollars every year to Costa Rica's treasury. If not for tourism, Costa Rica might look like just any poor country in the world. Ironically, these real estate developments are the ones
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New Transportation Schemes

Posted by Website Introductions: Living a vacation here in Costa Rica naturally means a lot of time to be spent on traveling literally--airplanes, boats, or simply buses. Name it. You'll have to ride it. Thus, it is imperative for you to find out all about the latest transportation schemes that the Costa Rican government has been putting out. Let your voice be heard and comment
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Civic Celebrations in Costa Rica: A Guide

Posted by Website Introductions: Fiestas are also abundant in this country, and they come in various kinds. Somre are religious fiestas, commemorating special Christian holidays, while some others are more civic in nature. For this particular post, we will be concentrating on civic fiestas, locally called fiestas civicas, and what will you have to take in mind when you
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Arias denies accusations of diverted donations

Posted by Website Introductions: What was supposed to be a donation from the Republic of China for the housing of the poor in Costa Rica was alleged to be diverted to other purposes in the government. This was according to a report by the AFP. Costa Rican president Oscar Arias denied these allegations and said that he learned about the financial help only from the media. The
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New airport expected to drive growth

Posted by Website Introductions: When a new airport opens, what does this mean This means a flock of investors trooping in the area to give in more growth, growth, growth This is now the case in the airport that is being built in Costa Rica's southern coast. In the past, travel time to this area takes around five hours via land. When the new airport is opened, it will only take
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New fiber optic cable installed

Posted by Website Introductions: With a new fiber optic cable put in place, government telecommunications company ICE will expand its international network and increase productivity. The new fiber optic cable that landed in Costa Rica's Pacific coast will allow the nation to have more reliable communication with the east coasts of the United States and Latin America, and Asia.
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Breeding Galore

Posted by Website Introductions: How would you like to see hundreds of thousands of ancient reptiles converge in a beach to breed and lay their eggs Come to Ostional Beach in Costa Rica, one of the nation's obscure areas, and witness this spectacle. Hundreds of thousands of olive ridley turtles, whose existence date back to ancient times, troop to the Beach's black sands to lay
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EU, Latin America to go with negotiations on tariff cuts

Posted by Website Introductions: Costa Rica, the world's second largest banana exporter, is on its way, along with its neighboring nations, to make negotiations with the EU nations to cut down tariff on imports. According to farmers in Costa Rica, tariff cuts will greatly reduce operating costs, which will eventually benefit farmers better in the long term. EU, for its part, said
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The Charm of Secrecy

Posted by Website Introductions: We live in a highly connected world where news travels faster than thought and we feel very proud of the fact that nothing is secret anymore. But we seldom realize that this over-explosion of information might have killed the very charm of secrecy which existed in the earlier days. But dont get depressed for there are still a few places in the
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The Partnership of TVs

Posted by Website Introductions: Television is a big source of entertainment in all parts of the globe and Costa Rica is not exception. Hence it should not come as a surprise that people are really delighted about the agreement between Globo TV and Televisora de Costa Rica for airing about 2000 hours of the former into the region. This partnership is nothing new but has been
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The Win of Natural Healthcare Systems

Posted by Website Introductions: Homeopathy is a popular German system of medicine which treats patients without use of surgery or artifiical drugs. Naturopathy is a somewhat similar system and both these are preferred by many people. But teh government in Costa Rica did not allow people with these qualifications to practice as certified doctors in the country but that was
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The See Saw of Currencies

Posted by Website Introductions: The dollar is an important currency worldwide from the business point of view and so much is its influence that when exchange rate changes significantly it can cause problems to governments and citizens of other nations. This is exactly what is happening of late in Costa Rica where the value of the dollar has been rising steadily of late, leading
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The Search for Greener Pasteurs

Posted by Website Introductions: We all like to hunt for the greener pasteurs and especially people from the developing regions of the globe like to settle in the developed parts such as the USA. But the problem comes when people come to the US for study purposes, complete their graduation and then are not willing to leave and choose to stay even illegally with fear of
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The Soft Hard Crude

Posted by Website Introductions: Crude Oil is a commodity without which no nation would be able to progress and keep its economy on track. With the risings costs of the barrel many nations find it difficult to fulfill their oil needs for the lack of immediate funds. So when Venezuela offered a soft financing scheme for crude oil several nations are eager to join it, including the
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The Sportsman Spirit

Posted by Website Introductions: All work and no play certainly makes Jack a dull boy and this was realized by Pilurzu who motivates kids to in Costa Rica to stay in school rather than quit at an early stage. He correctly feels that sports give a new lease of life to the otherwise monotonous academic career and gives inspiration to students to continue struggling for their dreams
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New leatherback migration route discovered

Posted by Website Introductions: The preservation of the leatherback turtle, the world's largest turtle may be ensured now that another migration route has been discovered. This migration route, which starts from Playa Grande to somewhere in the South Pacific, is rather unusual since it is a tight route, unlike other leatherback routes that have the turtles rather dispersed. This
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The Young Golf Course

Posted by Website Introductions: Golf is an interesting sport which is played on a large ground known as the golf course. Well I do not claim to be a professor in golf but certainly know a thing or two about it. So when I heard that country club of Liberia is building a gigantic golf course in Costa Rica I was really excited about it. They have contracted the famous golf course
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Second Homes Online

Posted by Website Introductions: Want to travel around the world, living in different places, seeing new scenery Then do not punish yourself by going from travel agency to travel agency. There's always the Internet to look forward to. Just like in Costa Rica, there are websites such as Private Communities that can cater to you globethrotters and give you a second home without
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Anglers harrassed by seiners

Posted by Website Introductions: It seems that even the quiet hobby of being an angler can put your life in danger as well--especially when there are seiners nearby. This is what happened during one instance in the coast of Costa Rica, when a confrontation erupted between some anglers and commercial seiners. The anglers claimed that explosives were dropped the day before, and the
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Costa Rica abolishes insurance monopoly

Posted by Website Introductions: After 84 long years, Costa Rica has finally approved the demolition of its insurance industry and opening it to national and international competition. Before this, the nation also abolished monopoly of the telecommunication industry. This is not without any reason, of course, as Washington was the one that demanded these abolitions so that Costa
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Lawmakers pass intellectual rights bill

Posted by Website Introductions: After the long wait, Costa Rica has finally come up with a bill that will punish all violators of intellectual property rights. It was no easy job, of course, since the bill was revised a fair amount of times, but it's never too late. Now, Costa Rica is only a few bills away to be able to get a Free Trade agreement with the United States News:
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