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- Strong quake rocks Panama City
PANAMA CITY, July 4 (Xinhua) -- A strong quake rocked the Panama City early Saturday morning, but there are no reports of casualties so far.
- Costa Rica tops good life survey
Costa Rica, the country of fewer than 5m people sandwiched between Panama and Nicaragua, tops a new global ranking for combining a happy and long life with limited environmental degradation. The country blends beautiful countryside, a great diversity of
- Ma eager for US beef deal
President Ma Ying-jeou (^E) said in Panama on Thursday that he was looking forward to an early agreement with the US on beef imports to Taiwan. Ma, who arrived in Panama City on Tuesday to attend new Panamanian President Ricardo Martinellis
- President Ma speaks out against Honduras coup
President Ma Ying-jeou has criticized the coup in Honduras which has seen the Honduran President Manuel Zelaya forced out of the country. Ma made his remarks in a speech in the National Assembly of Panama on Thursday. Ma said that Taiwan, as a democratic
- President Ma expects speedy conclusion to beef talks with U.S.
9:45 am TWN, CNA PANAMA CITY -- President Ma Ying-jeou said in Panama Thursday that he looks forward to an early agreement with the United States on beef imports to Taiwan. Ma, who arrived in Panama City Tuesday to attend new Panamanian President Ricardo
- Conservative, pro business president takes office in Panama
Ricardo Martinelli, the multimillionaire owner of a supermarket chain, was inaugurated as president of Panama on Wednesday. National Assembly President Jose Luis Varela performed the swearing-in and placed the presidential sash on Martinelli, a
- Ousted Honduran president arrives in Panama
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya arrived yesterday in Panama for the inauguration of the country?s incoming president Ricardo Martinelli, officials in Panama City said. Honduras?s ambassador in Panama Juan Alfaro said Zelaya was to attend a
- Honduran president says willing to pardon coup leaders
PANAMA CITY, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Honduras President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a Sunday coup, said here on Thursday that he is willing to pardon those who are responsible for the military coup. 'I am a Christian and know how to forgive and pardon,'
- Video: Deadline for Honduras looms
Ousted Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya visits Panama as a 72-hour deadline is set to end the Honduran political crisis. -- Reuters Duration: 1 min 34 sec
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With US backing, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903 and promptly signed a treaty with the US allowing for the construction of a canal and US sovereignty over a strip of land on either side of the structure (the Panama Canal Zone). The Panama Canal was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers between 1904 and 1914. On 7 September 1977, an agreement was signed for the complete transfer of the Canal from the US to Panama by the end of 1999. Certain portions of the Zone and increasing responsibility over the Canal were turned over in the intervening years. With US help, dictator Manuel Noriega was deposed in 1989. The entire Panama Canal, the area supporting the Canal, and remaining US military bases were turned over to Panama by or on 31 December 1999.
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AFP - The UN atomic watchdog's incoming chief Yukiya Amano promised Friday to do his "utmost" to resolve a long-running nuclear standoff with Iran after governors formally gave their nod of approval to his appointment.
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