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...Washington has sought to counter Beijing’s growing influence in Latin America, where China has free trade agreements with Peru, Chile and Costa Rica....
...One of the most wide-ranging literary prizes, the Costa Book Awards, recently announced its shortlists....
...Nathan Bostock: spoofing attack Nathan Bostock, the former exec chairman of RBS’s controversial debt recovery operation GRG, as well as other execs and RBS itself, were formally let off the hook on Thursday...
...Arnot-Roberts, a collaboration between Nathan Lee Roberts and his Napa childhood friend and ex-cellar rat Duncan Arnot Meyers, was founded in 2001 and became one of the first proponents of the new wave....
...(FT) Hong Kong activists granted bail Young democracy activists, Joshua Wong and Nathan Law, have been granted bail....
...Segal won the Costa First Novel Award and a Betty Trask for The Innocents , her 2012 debut exploring similar themes of non-nuclear family life, the everyday fractures and renovations inherent to relationships...
...Who Milan Sotheby’s International Realty, milan-sothebysrealty.com, Tel: +39 02 8707 8300 … Villa, Costa Blanca, Spain, €4.4m Where Altea Hills, a wealthy area on the Costa Blanca in southern Spain, 15km...
...Last year’s overall prize was won by Nathan Filer forThe Shock of the Fall....
...Who Knight Frank, knightfrank.co.uk, tel: +44 20 7861 1098 ——————————————- Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, €9.5m Where Overlooking Cala di Volpe bay on the Costa Smerelda, northeast Sardinia, 115km from...
...Nathan Filer was awarded the 2013 Costa Book Award this week for his debut novel The Shock of the Fall. Filer, 33, previously worked as a mental health nurse....
...Who Knight Frank, www.knightfrank.co.uk, tel: +44 20 8946 0026 ——————————————- Villa Hermosa, Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy, €11m Where In Porto Cervo, on the north coast of Sardinia, 30km from Costa Smeralda...
...Who: Savills, www.savills.com, tel: +44 20 7499 8644 ——————————————- Villa Sa Contissa, Sardinia, Costa Smeralda, Italy, €20m Where: In the northeast of the island of Sardinia, 35km north of Costa Smeralda...
...Sleeping Keys , by Jean Sprackland, Jonathan Cape, RRP£10/Random House, RRP$17.95 In Sprackland’s fourth collection, the Costa prize-winner explores the fragility of the places we call home....
...Here he tells the story of that transformation through a series of trips – from the Camino de Santiago in Spain, to Patagonia, Costa Rica, Kilimanjaro and more....
...Cash-strapped developing countries provide generous incentives that limit companies’ future tax burdens, such as Costa Rica’s eight-year tax holiday on investments....
...Antonio Maria Costa, head of UN’s Office of Drugs and Crime, warned at the weekend that southern Afghanistan was tilting towards collapse....
...From the moment Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katarina Thanou missed drug tests on the eve of the opening ceremony not to mention a turning on their motor bike the Games came alive....
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