Monday, November 17th, 2008
Chinese President Hu Jintao has begun a short visit to Costa Rica. During his stay in the capital, San José, Mr Hu will sign 11 cooperation agreements. He will also meet President Oscar Arias to discuss the free trade treaty scheduled to take effect between the two countries in 2010.
Costa Rica is, after Chile and Peru, the third Latin American country with which China has discussed free trade agreements. The relationship between the two has blossomed ever since the government in San José decided, in 2007, to break its 60-year-old ties with Taiwan and to begin diplomatic relations with China. Mr Hu called Costa Rica “an important country in Central America and an important partner for Beijing.”
Following his visit to Costa Rica, Mr Hu will travel to Cuba and Peru.
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
For Google Innovation Community, Costa Rica was definitely an asset and has included as one of the participants and it was launched by the Ministry of Science of Costa Rica. The Google Innovation Group will be open to everyone in Costa Rica who wants to participate and will be used as an announcements board for free activities, training programs, scholarships and offers for financial support for scientific and economic research. The Ministry of Science of Costa Rica also plants to use other tools such as Youtube and Facebook to display any type of innovation developed in Costa Rica and document promoting the project has been sent to every school in the country as well.
Costa Rica has proved to have extremely talent professionals and good resources for technology innovation, this addition of Costa Rica to the Google Innovation Community just proves that the potential in Costa Rica is above the parameters established by well known innovative companies around the world.
In Costa Rica, science and systems engineering are one of the top careers chosen by youngsters and many items we use today have been developed in Costa Rica lands, also many technological companies such as Intel, Hologic and Alienware have had their offices located here due to the fact that the professional labor in their areas is definitely strong and well prepared among professionals in Costa Rica
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