Vietnamese Envoy Courts Trade, Investment during National Day Reception
Mexico is currently Vietnam’s second-largest trading partner in Latin America, and Vietnam is Mexico’s eighth-largest trade partner in Southeast Asia
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Demonstrators Don’t Sing Anymore
This was November 1969. Despite the daily casualties in Vietnam, despite the two recent assassinations, we were still on a high from Woodstock and believed all we had to do was gather, show our united presence, and sing “Give Peace a Chance”
Read moreA Pressing Agenda for AMLO and Biden
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreMexico’s Patria Vaccine Still Far from Ready
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s long-promised Patria vaccine against covid19 infections, announced as an emergency measure by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in the spring of 2020, is nowhere close to getting into people’s arms. According to government sources, the vaccine is currently in phase 2 testing — there are five requires testing stages for a vaccine’s
Read moreBritain Opens Free-Trade Talks with Mexico
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
Read moreMexico to Launch Digital Currency in 2025
XINHUA Mexico will begin operating a digital currency issued by the Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) in 2025, the bank’s governor, Victoria Rodríguez Ceja, announced Thursday, April 21. The new digital currency, which will be known as Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), is intended to generate alternative means of payment and providing greater financial inclusion. The social benefits derived from
Read moreSalazar, 16 Other Envoys Present Diplomatic Credentials
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. envoy Ken Salazar, along with 16 other then-ambassador-designates, presented diplomatic credentials to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in a solemn ceremony at the National Palace on Tuesday, Sept. 14, just three days after Salazar’s arrival in the country. After the ceremony, in which Salazar was the last to present credentials due
Read moreUS Must Help Afghans Who Helped It
Two U.S. pundits point out that their country owes Afghans more than a quick goodbye
Read moreMexico and UK Sign Trade Deal
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
Read moreSoutheast Asia’s Spectacular City of Lights
By LARRY ANTHONY PANNELL When most people hear the phrase “City of Lights” they think of Paris. But when I hear a reference to the City of Lights, I think of the colorful central Vietnam coastal town of Hoi An, and its brightly, multihued buildings, French architecture and streets adorned with hundreds of lanterns of various shapes, sizes and colors
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