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  • Mexican twice summits Everest in one climbing season

    Mexican David Liao Gonzalez Sunday became the first climber to double summit on Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, in the same season, the climb's organizers said. Liao Gonzalez reached the top of the world via both the north and south sides of Everest, Asian Trekking said. The 33-year-old Liao Gonzalez reached the summit of Everest Sunday via the Tibetan north side after climbing to ...

  • Mexico aims to boost trade with Brazil

    Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Jose Antonio Meade visited his Brazilian counterpart, Antonio Patriota, with whom he agreed to promote a series of business meetings to boost bilateral trade. Meade told a press conference that, on the topic of trade, "right now that is Mexico's goal", but that at present there is no intention to negotiate free-trade agreements with Brazil. "There's a mutual ...

  • Nestle invests $130 mn in Mexico plant

    Mexican President Enrique Pea Nieto inaugurated a 1.6-billion-peso ($130-million) expansion of a Nestle instant coffee factory in the central city of Toluca. The project has boosted the plant's productive capacity by 30 percent, making it the world's biggest facility of its kind, Nestle Mexico CEO Marcelo Melchior said during Friday's ceremony. The factory, which covers a 14-hectare area, will ...

  • Missing B.C. man feared kidnapped in Mexico

    METRO VANCOUVER -- The family of a Coquitlam man who went missing in Mexico is desperately seeking information about what they now believe is a ...

  • Mexican gets 3 years for smuggling heroin to Texas

    George Bush Intercontinental Airport . She arrived on a United Airlines flight from Quito, Ecuador, and was then heading to Newark, N.J. Cabanillas-Torres said she was paid $4,000 to transport two suitcases with the drugs to Newark to an unidentified contact. The heroin was smuggled inside the walls of the bags. Cabanillas-Torres, who was sentenced Friday, faces possible deportation ...

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [DVD]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [DVD]

Nineteen-sixty-nine was a strange year for the Western genre in Hollywood. It was both a year of great success and the end of an era. ...

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  • Want to retire on the beach Mexico talks of liberalizing land sales

    Supporters say the change could help Mexico compete with Central America for US retirees seeking spots in the sun. But could it hurt Mexican access to prime real ...

  • Kimco Realty Completes the Sale of a Nine-Property Mexican Shopping Center Portfolio

    NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kimco Realty Corp. ( ) today announced it has closed on the sale of a nine-property Mexican shopping center portfolio to a local real estate operator for a gross sales price of 3.35 billion Mexican pesos (US$274 million), including 573 million Mexican pesos (US$47 million) of mortgage debt. Kimco held a 47.6 percent interest in this portfolio ...

  • Oscars Very Mexican Food getting ready to re-open Sacramento location

    Oscar's Very Mexican Food at 3061 Freeport Blvd. will re-open its fully remodeled Sacramento location in June. Oscars Very Mexican Food at 3061 Freeport Blvd. will re-open its fully remodeled Sacramento location in June. The restaurant closed its Sacramento location in November as it did a complete renovation of the small stand into a restaurant. During the renovation, the kitchen crew has ...

  • GDP growth in 1Q13 tops expectations in Mexico

    GDP growth in Mexico in the first quarter came out above our expectations, but still registered a 2.2% YoY growth rate, the lowest since 2009. Meanwhile, in Colombia, March manufacturing and retail numbers produced a mixed picture, although we expect a decisive recovery in April. Today all eyes will be on 1Q13 growth in Chile, expected to show a slowdown in domestic ...

  • STOCKS NEWS SINGAPORE-Go with the flow dont fight the market - CIMB

    Singapore's quarterly corporate results season shows that earnings downgrades are coming from most of the externally exposed sectors, CIMB said, and cut its ratings on commodities and transport sectors back to 'underweight', while raising ...

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