Paraguay News

The NYT yesterday finally got around to covering what it called "the curious case of Mr Arbizu" - I appreciate the reference to a series of blog entries I wrote in June and July last year .

ICANN has announced today that it has signed an accountability framework with the country code top level domain manager for .PY , The National Computer Center from the National University of Asuncion and Laboratory Electronycs Digital Telecom of the University Catholic Nuestra Senora de la Ascuncion , together known as NIC.

"Silvino was riding his bike on a dirt road near our home when he was poisoned by toxic agrochemicals, sprayed on a nearby field of soybeans.

Dear Readers: this history of Santa Cruz de la Sierra was contributed by Arril Bruun who was born and raised here when it was still just a small forgotten town struggling to grow on its own.

They also criticised the inadequacy of laws and administrative provisions for combating gender violence, protecting victims, and punishing perpetrators.

Paraguayan humanitarian organizations demanded a judicial process and punishment for former minister Augusto Montanaro, accused of torture during the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner.

Asuncion, Jun 25 The Paraguayan government is considering reorganizing its Armed Forces to better defend national sovereignty.

A woman who claims that Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is the father of her son on Tuesday accused the former Roman Catholic bishop of raping her in their first sexual encounter.

After working for 17 years as a housekeeper at a school in Paraguay, Fermina Bogarin was offered a chance in 2007 to come to Paris for two years to do a similar job at the official residence of her country's ambassador.

Asuncion, Jun 17 Labor ministers from the Southern Common Market are to meet Wednesday, on the occasion of the 98th International Labor Conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

Video camera in hand, Isidro Romero is getting ready for another day of classes in the Paraguayan capital.

Then there are strange and weird holidays that really have no meaning besides the mere purpose to have an excuse to celebrate something.

New cases of the AH1N1 virus have been confirmed in Paraguay. The total people infected rose to 25, however, there have not been any deaths linked to the virus.

Everyone on the bus got off at the immigracion on the Argentine side, people were running out of the bus to be ahead of the queue, i just followed them, it took no more than 5 minutes for me to be processed, then boarded the same bus which luckily was still there.

Mexico, Jun 8 The lack of government infrastructure to the fight A/H1N1 virus was exposed at the Summit of Mayors of Ibero-American Cities.

La Paz, Jun 10 Bolivian President Evo Morales will visit Paraguay Sunday to commemorate, together with his counterpart Fernando Lugo, the 74th anniversary of an end to hostilities of the Chaco War confirmed a government source.

Asuncion, Jun 9 An agreement to undertake environmental tasks was signed by the president of the National Defense Commission of Natural Resources, Herminio Chena and Environment minister, Oscar Rivas.

Nine visiting mayors from the Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities on Sunday received the title of distinguished citizens from the Mexico City's mayor.

Asuncion, Jun 5 Nearly 12,000 Paraguayans have been assisted by the Operation Miracle program, through which the governments of Cuba and Venezuela provide free opthalmologic services.

A preferential trade agreement between India and the South American economic block MERCOSUR has come into effect on 1 June.