Costa Rica students will benefit from a scholarship program with the Korea University for postgraduate studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics as well as master’s degrees and doctorate’s. Korea is one of the global leaders in science, technology and innovation. The signing of this agreement was made between the Minister of Science, Technology and Telecommunications (MIICITT...

An alliance between Air Panama and the Honduras’ Tourism Board will allow Costa Ricans to travel from San José to Roatán in Honduras with just one stop in Panama. This possibility will be available with two flights a week, Thursdays and Sundays during high season, starting November 15 and extending through February 28, 2017. “The two times a week frecuency allows the Costa Rican public to b...

It is October, the month when Halloween takes over along with its spooky stories, tales, movies and costume parties. Even though this is not a Costa Rican celebration, many enjoy decorating their houses, kids (and even some adults) love dressing up, after all we all enjoy a good scary story. Costa Rica holds its own when it comes to spooky stories, myths and urban legends, which are part of it...

PRLog -- Costa Rica Meadery, which produces artisan mead (honey wine), honey, and cheese, in Desamparados de Alajuela, won three medals - two golds and a bronze - at the 5th Annual Copa Cervezas de América, one of the most important beer-related events in Latin America. The award ceremony was held on October 1st, 2016 in Santiago, Chile. The 2016 Copa Cervezas de America competition winners wer...

All couples search for that perfect secluded spot where they can spend a quiet weekend away from the day to day routine, Costa Rica is certainly the perfect place to rekindle romance, but with so many different alternatives we figured it’d be a good idea to give you some suggestions, mountain or beach, you’ll certainly find the perfect getaway spot for you and your loved one. Los Altos de Eros:...

“La Etapa Costa Rica del Tour de Francia” or Costa Rica’s stage by Le Tour de France, a franchise of “L’Etape du Tour”, is a recreation cycling event that takes place in several countries in the world with the purpose of promoting the sport but with the rules that apply in the famous Tour de France. This is the first type that an event of this type will take place in Costa Rica, the organizing ...

(EFE).- A Spanish marine institution and military officials on Friday agreed to launch a pioneering project to evaluate the potential use of sea lions in search and rescue missions. The idea for the research deal came from the intelligence and skill demonstrated by sea lions during training in captivity as well as their known ability to effortlessly navigate choppy seas and dive to great depths...

The eleventh edition of the Central American Surfing Games will be back to Costa Rica after five years. The last time Costa Rica hosted this event was back in 2011 at Hermosa Beach, prior to that it had been done in 2006 in Esterillos Centro. This time around the stage selected is Jaco Beach. Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Costa Rica will be participating in this edition that ...

“México: Identidad Fantástica” (Mexico: Fantastic Identity) is the name of the exhibition that brings together 71 paintings and photographs of the greatest exponents of Mexican art of the first half of the 20th century. Costa Ricans will be able to enjoy this great exhibition as of November 4th at the National Museum Dr. Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia in San José. The itinerant exhibit,curated b...

Many beach-goers don’t just visit the coast to relax, enjoy the sun and swim in the warm water, for some it’s the possibility of exploring the underwater treasures the ocean has to offer that makes it irresistible. Scuba diving allows you to discover and witness with your own eyes parts of the world that many only get to see in television, the adventure and adrenaline behind it is undeniable. ...

Thomson Reuters Foundation/by Anastasia Moloney - Gang violence has become so deadly in parts of Central America that many people are living in what is a war zone, Amnesty International said on Friday, adding that some migrants who have fled danger are killed within weeks of being deported home. Every year violence at the hands of gang members drives tens of thousands of people, including child...

(EFE).- Samsung Electronics estimates that it will lose 3.5 trillion won ($3.1 billion) in operating profits over the next six months due to the withdrawal of the Galaxy Note 7. Samsung calculated that the impact of the sales halt will amount to 2.5 trillion won ($2.2 billion) in the fourth quarter of this year, from October to December, and around one trillion won ($880 million) for the quarte...

Whether or not we are athletes we have all heard this "rule", “no sex before a competition”, this theory has been around for ages, for instance Greek philosopher Plato wrote in 444 BC that “Olympic competitors before races should avoid sexual intimacy” and this continues to apply today in pretty much every sport; for boxers and MMA fighters for example sex is not an option for at least a month or ...

/PRNewswire/ --The third edition of the Life Sciences Forum Costa Rica, organized by the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE), gathered over 450 participants including international speakers, consulting firms, international academia, researchers and corporate representatives of over 100 companies, who during two days, discussed the world's leading industry trends of the sector and how C...

(EFE).- The 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday. Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius made the announcement, extolling Dylan's quality as a poet and comparing him to some Greek bards of antiquity. Dylan, whose real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman, has been active in the music industry for ove...

“El Camino del Usekol” or The Road of the Usekol is a video game created by Costa Rican developers as part of their cultural products brand Juego Ditso which through video-games and table games hopes to introduce users to legends, mythology and tales of indigenous Costa Rican communities. This video-game is a strategy and adventure game within the Role-Playing Genre, in which players take o...

If you enjoy wine and/or coffee, make sure to enjoy these events in Costa Rica: “The road of Wine” (El Camino del Vino) is an event that you can enjoy Thursday, October 13 and Friday, October 14 at the Costa Rica Marriot Hotel in Belen, Heredia from 6 to 10 p.m. The event will offer products of more than 60 wineries from around the world, has a cost of $80 and includes a Riedel glass which y...

REUTERS- Home to the vast Amazon, Brazil has reduced its deforestation rate by more than 70 percent since 2003, but Latin America's largest country is still losing the equivalent of two football fields of rainforest every minute. The country aims to reduce net new deforestation to zero by 2030. Key tools in the fight are new satellite monitoring technologies, rural titling schemes to encoura...

(Reuters) - The race to find protection against the Zika virus is fuelled by something often missing from tropical disease research: the potential for big profit. The prospect of a blockbuster vaccine against a mosquito-borne virus has accelerated the pace of development and attracted the interest of big drugmakers, including Sanofi SA, GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Althoug...

When it comes to technology we sometimes think we’ve seen it all, “everything has been invented already”, right? Well this statement is far from reality; every day technology innovations surprise us, and this will continue to wherever imagination can take us. How about a T.V. screen that’s invisible when you are not using it? Yes, this is already in the making, by Panasonic. The company present...

An agreement between the Museo del Prado and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and an initiative of the Cultural Center of Spain, the Spanish Embassy in Costa Rica and the San Jose Municipality, will bring Costa Rican’s close to some of the artwork of the famous Museo del Prado (Spanish National Art Museum), with 60 photo reproductions to be displayed in San José...

Consumers of Costa Rican craft beer will be able to get a monthly six pack of different types of beers in their homes or offices. The model is a subscription box by which clients will receive exclusive products from national microbreweries they can savor. The system works through an online registration system where users pick the delivery place and can make their payment through Paypal ; t...

(Reuters Health) - Women with early-stage breast cancer may have fewer treatment complications and lower costs when they don’t get a mastectomy followed by reconstructive surgery, a U.S. study suggests. In recent years, reconstruction following a mastectomy has become more widely available, contributing to a sharp increase in the number of women who opt for this treatment even when less aggress...

The World Surf League Qualifying Series Essential Costa Rica Open Pro came to an end today after 5 days of competition and a lot of good waves, excitement and even crocodiles. Costa Rica’s Noe Mar McGonagle got to the semi-final but was unable to qualify to the final, after getting a score of 6.87 for his last wave when he needed a 7.01. Noe Mar competed against a very tough opponent, Ethan Ewi...

“Connected Public Spaces” is an initiative of the Ministry of Science, Telecommunications and Technolgy the National Telecommunication Fund (FONATEL) and several municipalities that are looking to provide of free internet to the inhabitants of the 72 Costa Rican counties through Wi-Fi networks placed in main parks. The total investment of this project is of about $32 million USD, which should b...

Costa Rica’s male national soccer team “La Sele” scored a 4-3 win in their friendly match against Russia’s national soccer team in Krasnodar, Russia. Costa Rica dominated the first half of the game although missed a lot of good opportunities to score, a Russian team without some of its main players including their goalkeeper, didn’t take advantage of the dead ball and set piece opportunities ...

Travel and Nature journalist, writer, photographer and blogger, Paco Nadal a native from Spain, recently shared in his travel blog in newspaper El Pais, a video that summarizes a year of traveling to eleven countries in five continents and filming with a dron some of the most beautiful places in the world. Costa Rica was one of these countries, others included in the video are: Kazakhstan, Peru, J...

With no crocodiles making an appearance in Esterillos today, the male and female quarterfinals of the WSL Essential Costa Rica Open Pro are defined, only one Costa Rican went through to this stage in the competition, Noe Mar McGonagle, Carlos Muñoz was eliminated in Round 5 and female competitors, Emily Gussoni, Coral Wiggins, Lisbeth Vindas and Leilani McGonagle all were eliminated in round 2. ...

The company Resonetics announced the opening of a new factory with state-of-the-art technology in laser micro-manufacturing systems, the same will be located in the Coyol Free Zone in Alajuela. The construction of the new plant began back in May and is expected to be concluded this month. The new factory of 1,486 square meters will offer larger volume of production, a clean room with laser process...

(Reuters Health) - Men with prostate cancer may be more likely to have the most serious form of the disease if their diet contains a lot of fat from meat and dairy, a recent U.S. study suggests. The increased risk tied to saturated fat and cholesterol was greater for the prostate cancer patients who had not been taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, researchers report in the journal Prostat...

(Reuters) - Hurricane Matthew's winds diminished on Saturday as it headed towards the Carolinas after killing almost 900 people in Haiti and causing major flooding and widespread power outages in the southeastern United States. As winds dropped to less than 85 miles per hour (135 kph), making it a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale of 1 to 5, the storm was about 20 miles (35 km) s...

(Photo Credit: Ruth Garita/ OCM) “DesplazaTEC” is the name of the app created by Alexander Chaves a student of a Masters in Computer Sciences at the Costa Rican Institute of Technology (TEC). This application serves as a guide within the TEC campus for blind people or population with low sight problems by informing them through voice system of any hazards they can find ahead (stairs, obstacles...

The Essential Costa Rica Open Pro is in its third day of action and for the second time in these three days a delay occurred because of the presence of a crocodile in the water. Round 5 of the male competition was underway when Brazilian surfer Tales Rodrígues alerted of the presence of the reptile, which he later told Surfline website was about the size of his surf board. Immediately the ...

(EFE).- The death toll in Haiti from Hurricane Matthew climbed on Friday to more than 800, making it the worst natural disaster since a 2010 earthquake claimed roughly 300,000 lives. The latest fatalities figure came from a Haitian government source, who told EFE that 820 people had been confirmed dead. The magnitude of the disaster was only beginning to become apparent on Friday, three days...

Things to do in Costa Rica this weekend: Saturday, October 8 If you like opera, Eugene O’Neill Theater located in the main branch of Centro Cultural in San Pedro, will kick off their Live Opera season Saturday, October 8 at 10 a.m. from The Metropolitan Opera (MetLive in HD), with the play Tristan und Isolde, and opera in three acts by German Richard Wagner and based largely on the romance b...

Eduardo Li, former president of the Costa Rican soccer federation (FEDEFUT) pleaded guilty today (Friday, October 7) of three of the 14 charges against him, raketeering conspiracy, wire fraud, and wire fraud conspiracy. Li is being accused of requesting kickbacks and bribes for the commercialization of marketing and broadcasting rights of the Costa Rican male National Soccer Team matches betwee...

The second day of competition of the Essential Costa Rica Open Pro 3000 at Esterillos Este beach in Parrita, Puntarenas, came to an end, and out of the starting 224 competitors there’s only 96 left (64 men, and 32 women). The level of competition is high, today after round 3 concluded, 4 male Costa Rican athletes continue in competition: Jason Torres, Noe Mar McGonagle, Jair Pérez and Cali Muñ...

Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica, is one of those volcanos that you see in postcards and photos, the perfect shape cone is visible from many areas and the wonderful nature that surrounds it makes it one of the most popular National Parks in Costa Rica among both domestic and foreign tourists; this volcano is still considered active, but its currently dormant, a few years back glowing lava used to flow...

(EFE).- Hurricane Matthew strengthened on Thursday to Category 4, with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (220 kph), and continues to approach the east coast of Florida, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. As of 1500 GMT, the "extremely dangerous" hurricane was located 25 miles (40 kilometers) west-northwest of Nassau, Bahamas, and 180 miles (290 kilometers) southeast of West Palm Beach, F...

(EFE).- South Korean giant Samsung Electronics said Thursday it is going to examine the mobile phone that caught fire aboard a US plane and forced its evacuation, to check if it is one of the replacement Galaxy Note 7 phones. A day after a smartphone caught fire aboard a Southwest Airlines plane at the Louisville international airport in Kentucky, US, a statement by the company said until the d...