Articles and videos about Panama
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Cinta Costera
This is a video explaining the "Cinta Costera" in Balboa Avenue, Panama City. Construction is already well under way. The video only shows computer animation.
Panama Empire,Nov 2007
100 years ago, France, a world potentate, failed in the construction of a Panama Canal. At great cost the United States later was able to finish. It is a project for powerful countries. Today the new canal is a work equal in scope to the original, but its not being done by the Japanese. It is being built at a good pace by Panamanians. Yes, sir, you read that correctly! Who said anything about being intimidated?
Is Panama America's Hong Kong Aug 31, 2007
The groundbreaking at the Panama Canal on Sept. 3 won't involve the usual golden shovels; instead, dignitaries of the order of Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be treated to a large explosion. And while the detonation is officially meant to kick off a $5.25 billion expansion of the Canal that will include a third, larger set of locks, to many Panamanians the moment will symbolize the demolition of their nation's century-old image as a U.S.-created banana republic...
Short video of traditional Panamanian folkloric dancing, taken at World Of Nations 2007
Here you can appreciate a beatiful folkloric song and dance
Panama has no central bank 4/26/2007
For a real-world example of how a system of market-chosen monetary policy would work in the absence of a central bank, one need not look to the past; the example exists in present-day Central America, in the Republic of Panama, a country that has lived without a central bank since its independence, with a very successful and stable macroeconomic environment....
Panama Canal video, miraflores locks, high speed, one day
High speed video of one day in the life of Miraflores locks
30 second promotional video about Bocas del Toro. Panama the path less traveled.
Video produced by the IPAT (Panamanian Culture Institue) to promote Panama.
ABC Nightline, video report about Panama Realty, 2006
Report about Panama which appeared in ABC Nightline (News broadcast) in 2006
La Prensa, Panama, Wednesday November 22, 2006, Opinion about Panama's future
Almost without realizing we are on the verge of beginning an incomparable era in the history of Panama. In a country where the national pastime is talk about what is wrong, the truth is there are too many positive things happening now to ignore them. All happening at the same time...
Costa del Este, a sound investment. La Prensa, Panama. Financial Tuesday 14 November 2006
The Costa del Este development, promoted as the most ambitious urban development project in all of Panama, is like visiting one of Florida's (USA) most exclusive suburbs. Everything perfectly placed. The 310 hectares that make up the project -eight time larger than Punta Paitilla- are an example of integrated planning rarely seen in Panama. Costa del Este is a replica of American urban planning projects...
Panama article from North Carolina's Charlotte Observer: 27th of November 2005
Head to the Amador Causeway and snap photos of Panama's downtown or the Bridge of the Americas, where traffic crosses over while ships cruise through the canal. Once part of the off-limits Canal Zone guarded by the U.S. military, the causeway has become a favorite of locals and tourists. The thin strip surrounded by the ocean houses duty free shops, restaurants, hotels and dance clubs. Construction signs and sites make it evident that there's more on the way. Kiosks sell hammocks, guayaberas, hats and molas, brightly colored fabrics with elaborate, hand-sewn designs of the Kuna Indian tribe...
Panama article from NY Times, Spirit of the Isthmus: 20th of November 2005
On my flight from Newark to Panama City, I wonder what I will find after years of being away. People say Panama is going to become a destination for packaged ecotours, much the same as Costa Rica. I still find that hard, and sad, to believe. From 1977 to 1986, Panama was my home - it was a Latin Casablanca, with arms runners, drug lords and revolutionaries as well as Farah Diba, Margot Fonteyn and Graham Greene...
Article about Panama from New York Times, September 9, 2005
PANAMANIANS joke that the McDonald's franchises and glass skyscrapers make Panama City the " Miami of the South," except that more English is spoken here. But more than a decade and a half after an American invasion leveled part of the city and about six years after United States troops pulled out of the country and ceded control of the Panama Canal, the city is asserting itself as a tourist destination, not just a scenic overpass for an engineered waterway. Fashionable hotels now dot the cosmopolitan skyline. Crumbling colonial homes are being polished into bohemian gems. Emerald rain forests woo eco-tourists...
Article from Wall Street Journal about Panama, March 14, 2005
Complaints about stepped-up U.S. border scrutiny since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are prompting any Latin American travelers to do more than gripe: They are using places like Panama City's Tocumen international Airport as a regional hub instead of Miami, once the preferred way station for Latin fliers making connections to Europe or North America or even destinations within the region....
Article from the LA Times, February 2, 2005 about Panama
Panama Golf course manager John Sutton had had enough of lawyers, telemarketers, several of his neighbors and the federal government. So the San Diegan and his wife took early retirement, sold everything they owned and moved to Panama. The Suttons, who bought a house here last summer, exemplify a wave of American retirees who want to get away far, far away from it all. Each month, about 20 of them are turning up in this remote coffee-growing town nestled in the mountains of western Panama, buying houses and starting new lives...
Tapping Into Panama's Wealth, January 2005
What sets Panama apart from any other nation under the sky? From an investment perspective, Panama offers strategic advantages to the foreign investor. These advantages revolve around Panama's undercapitalized wealth and the mechanisms by which such wealth can be released....
Law 54. Protecting Foreign Investment in Panama
Whereby provisions for the Legal Stability of Investments are adopted...
Trademark and Patent registration in the Republic of Panama
The Republic of Panama is a signatory to multiple regulating international treaties on matters of Trademarks, Industrial and Intellectual Property....