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  • Mexicos tourism sector goes up

    Economic activity associated with tourism grew 4 percent in 2012 compared with the year before, Mexico's INEGI statistics service said. Spending by foreign and domestic tourists increased by 4.7 percent last year. In the fourth quarter of 2012, tourism activity topped the same period in 2011 by 4 percent, INEGI said Monday. By segments, spending by domestic tourists rose 4.8 percent, while ...

  • Mexican Herrera I will win this fight by KO or decision

    Mexican Aaron "La Hoya (Jewel)" Herrera seems confident of his chances against reigning WBO International light welterweight champion Jason "El Nio" Pagara in the 20th edition of Pinoy Pride Series dubbed "Laban Kung Laban" this Saturday at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino. During a press conference yesterday at the Formo Restaurant and Lounge at the ...

  • Mexican tycoon Slim seeks funding details of U.S. protest group

    People protest holding masks printed with the face of Mexican telecommunications and retail tycoon Carlos Slim as he attends the Meeting of Latin American Businessmen at a hotel in Lima May 3, ...

  • Mexican soldiers flood western state to protect towns under siege by cartel but doubts remain

    Residents greet Mexican army soldiers as they enter the town of La Ruana, Michoacan, Mexico, Monday, May 20, 2013. Residents of western Mexico towns who endured months besieged by a drug cartel are cheering the arrival of hundreds of Mexican army troops. A growing number of people in the state of Michoacan have taken up arms to defend their villages against drug gangs, a vigilante movement born ...

  • UPDATE 1-U.S. not respecting WTO ruling on meat labeling -Mexico

    (Updates with agriculture minister's quotes) By Adriana Barrera MEXICO CITY, May 21 (Reuters) - The United States is not respecting a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling on meat labeling, Mexico's Agriculture Minister Enrique Martinez said on Tuesday, saying it was hurting local industry. The WTO ruled in late June last year that a U.S. program for labeling imported meat unfairly ...

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Funny Games

Funny Games

There is certainly nothing unique about a director remaking his or her own film, usually with the intention of somehow improving it. Alfred Hitchcock tried this with The Man Who Knew Too Much, which he originally made in England in black and white with Leslie Banks in 1934 and then ... ...

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  • Mexico-bound Surfers Eye dismantled

    The Surfers Paradise Eye wheel is being dismantled and will be gone by next week. Pic: Scott Fletcher THE Surfers Paradise Eye has taken its last spin.The controversial attraction, plagued with problems for the past five years, will be pulled to pieces and shipped to Mexico after reportedly costing management $800,000 in the past year.Work began on dismantling the wheel atop the Surfers ...

  • Mexicos Banorte CEO optimistic on economic reforms growth

    By Elinor Comlay and Tomas Sarmiento MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The chief executive of Mexico's fourth-largest bank by assets, Grupo Financiero Banorte, is optimistic about expanding the bank's business this year despite of worries over a ...

  • Carlos Slim to sell stake in Philip Morris Mexico

    Grupo Carso company is selling its stake in Philip Morris's Mexico unit to the US tobacco giant for $700 million, the firms said Tuesday. Grupo Carso holds a 20 percent stake in Philip Morris Mexico (PMM) and the companies expect to complete the transaction by September 30, ending a three-decade partnership between Slim and the maker of Marlboro cigarettes. Philip Morris holds almost ...

  • Same-sex couples inch toward sharing benefits in Mexico City

    Same-sex couples are a step closer to being able to share social security benefits after one government agency changed its policy in May 2013. Same-sex marriage has been legal for three years in Mexico City. But delays in Congress to revise the social security laws continue to leave spouses without access to each other's ...

  • EMERGING MARKETS-Mexico stocks near 8-month low as Brazil leaps

    MEXICO CITY, May 21 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks slumped on Tuesday to a nearly eight-month low, while Brazilian stocks rose for the third successive session to hit a key resistance level. Mexican stocks have slumped 12 percent from a record high hit in January, hurt recently after weak first-quarter growth dampened the economic outlook for 2013. Brazil, meanwhile, has rebounded more than 6 ...

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