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  • Bolivia Venezuela collaborate in search for oil

    Petroandina, a 60/40 joint venture of Bolivian state oil company YPFB and Venezuelan counterpart PDVSA, will invest an additional $35 million this year in a search for oil and gas in La Paz province. That investment will bring to $151 million the total amount devoted to the Lliquimuni project since the beginning of 2011, YPFB said. Lliquimuni, located in northern La Paz province, may hold as ...

  • SaltSmart Consortium Endorses Plan To Halve Dietary Salt Consumption In The Americas By 2020

    To promote the prevention of cardiovascular disease, a multisector consortium convened by the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) this week endorsed a plan to reduce dietary salt consumption in the Americas by half by the year 2020. Currently, average salt consumption in most of the region's countries is twice the recommended level of 5 grams per person per ...

  • Futures Movers Oil prices slide on energy demand Fed worries

    LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. crude-oil futures slid on Thursday, as the market grappled with weak manufacturing-activity figures from China, an increase in U.S. oil supply and signals from the Federal Reserve that a reduction in monetary stimulus is in ...

  • Abu Dhabi records 7.7 growth on high oil prices

    Abu Dhabi grew 7.7 per cent year on year in 2012, on higher oil ...

  • Colombia Bogota to Host XXII Latin American Congress of Ports

    The XXII Latin American Congress of Ports Colombia 2013, organized by the American Association of Port Authorities, will be held in the city of Bogot, June 25th to 28th, ...

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Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation

Sofia Coppolas Lost in Translation is a beautiful, lyrical cinematic ode to lost souls finding each in an unlikely place. In this case, it is a burnt-out movie star and a lonely young newlywed who strike up a relationship in downtown Tokyo, where they both feel isolated and alone, spiritually and culturally. The location setting in Tokyowith its technologically overdetermined neon gaudines ... ...

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  • Venezuelan leading university attacked buses torches

    PanARMENIAN.Net - A group of masked assailants has attacked a leading university in the Venezuelan capital, torching two buses and seriously damaging its rectory building, The Associated Press reported. Amalio Belmonte, the secretary-general of the Central University of Venezuela, said about 20 people invaded the campus and shot firearms into the air Wednesday, June 19 afternoon. Belmonte said ...

  • Venezuela to Boost Domestic Natural Gas Production

    Caracas, Jun 20 (Prensa Latina) The Venezuelan oil industry works to boost the production of natural gas, in order to extend the local consumption and exports of that resource. According to the state-run company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), plans include increasing production at the oil field Perla in about 300 million cubic meters per day, by the end of 2014. The aforementioned field, ...

  • Venezuela - Venezuelan court stops judge from using social media

    On June 15, 2013, Marilda Ros, head judge at a Caracas court, issued a precautionary measure prohibiting Mara Lourdes Afiuni (a judge who was jailed pending a criminal suit) from speaking to the national and international media and expressing herself on social media. This prohibition was issued within the framework of the decision of granting her parole on account of health difficulties. Jos ...

  • Venezuela reports more H1N1 cases

    A total of 1,538 cases of infection with influenza A (H1N1) virus were reported across Venezuela by June 8, the Ministry of Health said Wednesday.The latest number marked an increase of 430 cases from the last official report, issued on June 12.The cases mainly concentrated in Venezuela's coastal and western states and districts, with Merida state leading with 867 cases and followed by ...

  • 10 injured in police-farmer clash in Colombia

    At least 10 people were injured Wednesday in a clash between farmers and police officers in northeast Colombia, a local police official said.Five police officers were among the injured in the Ocana-Costa Atlantica Highway clash that began at 6 am local time (1100 GMT), said Col. Eliecer Camacho, commander of the police department of the northeast Norte de Santander state.Riot police were sent to ...

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