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Colombia extends national quarantine until July

Reuters
Posted at May 29 11:43 AM

BOGOTA - Colombia on Thursday extended a nationwide quarantine to contain the spread of the coronavirus until July 1, while allowing more freedom of movement in some parts of the country. Read more »

Colombia declares first case of coronavirus

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 07 06:47 AM

Colombia declared its first case of novel coronavirus on Friday after a 19-year-old woman arriving from Italy tested positive for the virus, the health ministry said. Read more »

3 foreigners in Palawan negative for 2019-nCoV; Brazilian kid under observation

Arlie Cabrestante, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 28 07:02 PM

Three foreigners have tested negative for the 2019-nCoV, while their companion remains under observation after showing symptoms of the SARS-like illness. Read more »

Drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's family launches folding smartphone

David Estrada, Reuters
Updated as of Dec 24 09:20 PM

Years after his death, Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's family is reinventing itself by going into the smartphone business.  Read more »

First woman mayor of Bogota marries girlfriend

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 17 02:38 PM

BOGOTA, Colombia - Claudia Lopez, the first woman elected mayor of Colombia's capital Bogota, married her girlfriend of three years on Monday.   Read more »

Study: PH deadliest nation for farmers, indigenous people over land disputes

Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Dec 11 06:38 PM

The Philippines was also ranked the deadliest nation for land rights activists last year by another human rights group, Britain-based Global Witness, which recorded 164 killings worldwide. Read more »

‘Shining brighter together’: Gazini finds new ‘amigas’ in Miss Colombia, Miss Brazil

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 04 06:07 PM

"If we shine together, we shine brighter." Read more »

China consortium wins Colombian capital metro contract

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 18 06:58 AM

China's APCA Transmimetro has won a $4 billion contract to build an elevated metro line in Bogota, Colombia's President Ivan Duque announced Thursday. Read more »

Medicinal cannabis could bring in $6 billion a year for Colombia, gov't says

Reuters
Posted at Sep 20 07:23 AM

BOGOTA - Colombia could export $6 billion a year in medicinal cannabis products, making marijuana its third-largest source of foreign exchange, the government said on Thursday, as investors called for simpler regulations for marijuana producers. Read more »

Amazon countries sign forest pact, promising to coordinate disaster response

Luis Jaime Acosta, Reuters
Posted at Sep 07 10:20 AM

Seven Amazonian countries on Friday signed a pact to protect the world's largest tropical forest via disaster response coordination and satellite monitoring, amid recent fires that torched thousands of square miles of the jungle. Read more »

Peru, Colombia propose emergency Amazon summit as fires blaze

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 28 07:54 AM

LIMA - Peru and Colombia proposed on Tuesday an emergency Amazon summit for countries in the region in order to coordinate a strategy to protect the vast rainforest currently blighted by numerous fires. Read more »