Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 19:30
Negotiations over massive cost overruns in the expansion of the Panama Canal appeared to run into trouble when one of the companies involved demanded more than USD 1 billion to continue work on the project.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 01:48
The Panama Canal Authority and a consortium expanding the major waterway will negotiate a solution to a USD 1.6-billion dispute threatening to disrupt the project, a Spanish mediator said on Monday.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 08:26
The governments of Panama and Spain scrambled to resolve a dispute with a consortium threatening to halt expansion work on the Panama Canal over a USD 1.6 billion cost overrun.
Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 00:25
US Vice President Joe Biden begins an official visit to Panama from Monday for meetings on the expansion of the canal.
Last Updated: Friday, August 16, 2013, 00:30
Panama Canal authority said on Thursday it will impose as much as a USD 1 million fine on the North Korean freighter caught with an undeclared shipment of Cuban weapons.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 11, 2013, 11:17
Authorities in Panama say they have found more explosives aboard a North Korean-flagged ship detained in the Panama Canal for carrying undeclared arms from Cuba.
Last Updated: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 15:24
The study is the first published description of a fossil mammal discovered as part of an international project in Panama.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 09:53
Traffic through the Panama Canal is suspended for the first time in more than 20 years due to heavy rain.
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