2014 – Page 140

Dominican national basketball team player Karl Towns Jr. won the award for the United States National High School Athlete of the Year (2013-2014), and the national prep athlete of the year. He was honored on Tuesday, 15 July in a ceremony in Los Angeles, California sponsored by Gatorade. He was chosen for athletic excellence, academic …

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President Danilo Medina has confirmed that the collaboration between the Dominican Republic and the United Nations is strengthening in areas such as the fight against poverty, climate change, food supply and education, amongst others. He made the comments on occasion of the visit of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday, 15 July 2014. Ban Ki-moon has …

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Speaking at a lunch hosted by the Dominican Exporters’Association (ADOEXPO), Jean Alain Rodriguez, director of the Center for Export and Investment in the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD) said that exports registered a growth of 6% from January to July 2014. He said that there were still challenges to overcome but the country had become more competitive …

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Puerto Rica’s Institute of Statistics indicates that exports to the Dominican Republic in 2014 were US$381.87 million, up from US$196.75 for the same first five months of the year. The difference of US$185 million is a 94% increase. Read more in Spanish: http://elnuevodiario.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=382950

The Embassy of Taiwan in the Dominican Republic reports that bilateral trade was US$146 million in 2013. This includes Taiwan exports of US$115 million (up 6% compared to 2012) and Dominican exports of US$31 million, as reported in Diario Libre.

According to Antonio Vargas Hernandez from the General Agency for Multilateral Cooperation (Digecoom) and Antonia Calvo, political advisor to the European Union delegation in the Dominican Republic, the European Union will make available for the Dominican Republic, EUR72 million as part of the program of non-refundable cooperation as laid down in the 11th European Development …

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