Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFerve
Is the brain capable of observing without an observer? What is the observer? What part does it play in the division, conflict, and fragmentation of the world?
These are crucial questions, not only for awakening the meditative...
Lance Harrell
Editor in Chief
The Costa Rica News is happy to announce the addition of Anita Verma to our writing staff! Ms. Verma has a passion for exotic cultures, sports, legal/political issues and the beach lifestyle. Ms. Verma obtained a...
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFerve
Set to the lyrics from Willy Wonka’s “A world of pure imagination,” the business ad invites participants into a brave new world of technology, where the only reality is what the mind and self invent at...
Featured Columnist – Meditations
Martin LeFerve
The Dalai Lama has said that he may not reincarnate again, and if he does, it will not be in Tibet. He isn’t referring to illumination however. After all, bodhisattvas reincarnate; illumined beings incarnate.
The Dalai Lama...
by PABLO FONSECA Q
Costa Rica has officially adopted the digital television format created by Japan, but adapted to be used by Brazil in Latin America.
By an executive order published in La Gaceta, Costa Rica and joined countries such as...
by ALONSO MATA B
Boulders up to one meter in diameter fell this weekend on the new San José-Caldera highway due to heavy rains.
Landslides left three people injured, who had to be transferred to medical facilities.
In addition, debris and rocks...
by VANESSA LOAIZA N.
Street vendors in San Jose appear to be separated by blocks and boulevards, according to whether they are Colombians, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Costa Ricans.
At least 1,800 street vendor have invaded the few areas dedicated to pedestrians in the...
(Reuters) - Google TV, a service that will bring the Web to television screens, is likely to create more headaches for broadcast and cable executives already concerned with being sidelined by free online video shows on computers.
At stake are...
(Reuters) - The U.S. government is forced to rely on BP and the private oil sector to try to plug the gushing Gulf of Mexico well because only they have the technical know-how to stop the spill at those...
by JAIRO VILLEGAS S.
The lack of interest in learning is the main cause of college dropout, according to the Survey of Multi-Purpose Household, by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC).
Almost 32% of young people between 12 and...
