By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The British government on Friday, May 20, announced that it has begun preliminary negotiations with Mexico to establish a bilateral free-trade agreement. According to British Trade Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan, using as a template the European Union-Mexico agreement that was negotiated over two decades ago, the United Kingdom, which ceased to be included in that
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Toto, the last surviving orangutan in Mexico City’s Chapultepec Zoo, has died, the city’s Environment Secretariat (Sedema) reported late Wednesday, Dec. 8. Toto, a male ape that was donated to Mexico by the Indonesian government, was one month short of reaching age 30. According to zoo sources, he had begun to be listless and
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By KELIN DILLON After a period of consecutive hiccups in Mexico’s air travel sector, including near-collisions, construction accidents during the building of the new Santa Lucia airport, and a suspension of Mexico City’s new airspace redesign, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) concluded its audit of the Mexican Federal Civil Aviation Agency’s (AFAC) aviation security, which will decide whether the
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS With covid-19 restrictions finally beginning to ease in Mexico City (thanks to a drop in infection numbers), Indonesian Ambassador to Mexico Cheppy T. Wartono and his wife Santy Triprakoso Wartono were among the first diplomats stationed here to venture back into the world of official social gatherings, offering a 18-person, sit-down dinner at their residence on Friday,
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XINHUA Great Britain and Mexico have signed an agreement aimed at securing the existing bilateral trade following the end of the Brexit transition period on Dec. 31, the British Department for International Trade (DIT) said Tuesday, Dec. 15. The UK-Mexico Trade Continuity Agreement (UKMCA) will provide certainty for British and Mexican businesses “trading the goods and services that make up
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Their very name means “man of the forest,” and anyone who has ever seen an orangutan up close and personal will understand why these highly intelligent primates, with their human-like features and their acute sensitivity, are considered to be one of our closest living relatives. And yet, despite their gentle, unaggressive nature and their compassionate personalities, the
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After just short of three years in Mexico, Malaysian Ambassador Mohammed Azhar bin Mazlan and his wife Amelia Amani Lee Abdullah will be heading back to Kuala Lumpur next week, where he will take up a new position inside his country’s Foreign Ministry. But in the short time he served in Mexico (he had to wait nearly
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