Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | yesterday
The success of the PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour last season has prompted a return engagement this year. The Tour will begin on November third in San Jose, Costa Rica. Last season, some of the top names in poker played in the Tour and this season does not plan to be any different. Several top players [...]
Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mexico, the United States and Costa Rica can move a step closer to the 2010 World Cup finals in CONCACAF third round qualifiers this weekend. The three teams have perfect records so far with three straight wins, putting them in a strong position to advance to the fourth and final round where three automatic spots for [...]
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cristian Cambronero of Fusil de Chispas writes about the grand finale of Latin American Idol, where Costa Rican Maria Jose was up to the last minute singing for the first place. Much to the national disappointment, she didn't win, ending the three months of nail biting as Panama's singer walked away with the coveted prize.
Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | yesterday
Amazon, the well-known international online store, will begin operations in Costa Rica during November 2008. The highly anticipated opening will bring approximately seven hundred jobs to the Heredia region. Nearly every product used by consumers around the globe can be purchased through Amazon (www.amazon.com). Amazon delivers products to two hundred countries and serves millions of [...]
Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Chinese President Hu Jintao is set to visit Costa Rica next month, 17 months after the Central American nation broke 63 years of ties with Taiwan to establish a diplomatic link with Beijing, Costa Rican authorities said Wednesday. During his November 17 visit, Hu is set to meet with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, to discuss [...]
Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The halting of the construction of the new national stadium has given rise to anger by many Costa Ricans following the news yesterday of a Constitutional Court decision to halt construction of the new stadium in the Parque La Sabana, that was supposed have begun next month. The Court decision followed a “recurso de amparo” by [...]
Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
About 15 high-powered companies say they’re looking to hire 2,000 English-speaking employees at a bilingual job fair that begins today and ends Saturday in San José. The Costa Rican-North American Cultural Center is organizing the fair for the third year in a row and expects 3,000 job seekers to flood the three-day event, up about 1,000 [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
MUNICH, Germany -- Leonardo Patterson made his first archaeological find at age 7 in a yam field in his native Costa Rica - a piece of clay pottery his cousin said could be thousands of years old.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Leonardo Patterson made his first archaeological find at age 7 in a yam field in his native Costa Rica -- a piece of clay pottery his cousin said could be thousands of years old.
IDEGO (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
—- Too Little too late - he should have done this when it began. Now we’ve seen how smarmy he is. What stupid people live here. Viva Costa Rica.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Hamish Low finished his MA in media, peace and conflict studies at the University for Peace in Costa Rica this summer
du Nord (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just want to give readers a heads up that I am going to be in LA for the MLS Cup final the weekend of Nov 23. Let me know if you are planning on being there, cuz I would love to plan a get together! ~and~ DC United got a very positive result in Costa Rica last night, drawing 2-2 at the Purple Monster of Saprissa in the CCL. DCU played a team of mostly reserves, as they try to save their MLS season...
Soccer Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
The regulars who were left behind in Washington this week are on a flight this afternoon. The reserves who earned a point against Saprissa are departing Costa Rica. They'll all meet in Houston later today to prepare for Sunday's critical league match against the Dynamo. The encouraging news is that leading scorer Luciano Emilio (hamstring) made the trip from D.C. and is listed as questionable. Others...
Top 10 Costa Rica (Free subscription) | yesterday
Russian forward Rod Dyachenko scored the equalizer in injury time Thursday to give America’s D.C. United a 2-2 draw with Saprissa of Costa Rica and its first point in the CONCACAF Champions League. Liberian-born striker Francis Doe opened the scoring for the Americans after six minutes, taking advantage of an error by Alexander Robhinson that left [...]
Going to the Mat (Free subscription) | yesterday
To be honest, I was just flipping back and forth between the Real Salt Lake/Red Bull match and the CONCACAF match between DC Untied and Saprissa. Given teh 16 man roster of rookies and reserves that Tommy Soehn took to Costa Rica, I figured that DC was going to get trounced by Saprissa who have owned DC in recent years. Man was I wrong. DC United led until the 80th minute on an early goal by Francis...
