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House Hunters International TV show will be in Medellin
Written on 14 Mar, 2011 at 13:00 in News and Views, Real Estate, What To Do | viewed 1,956 times | 14 Comments
Home & Garden TV -HGTV- network will be filming a new episode in Colombia of the popular show House Hunters Internationals. The first city in Colombia chosen by the producers is Medellin and they have plans to make at least... (Continue reading)
Medellin’s Mining Boom Brings the World Mining Expo to Town
The Colombian mining industry remains one of the most dynamic and promising sectors of the country, in just one year mining investment has reached record figures in excess of 2,000 million dollars and the trend in the short term will... (Continue reading)
New Survey Reveals 99% of Visitors are Highly Satisfied with Medellin
I recent survey carried out by the Ministry of Tourism between October and November last year revealed that Medellin ranks higher than just about any other city in the world for tourist satisfaction and confirms Medellin’s position as one of the... (Continue reading)
Making a Mint in Medellin
Shares of the top bank in the world’s hottest emerging market should keep marching higher. It’s not really a surprise that emerging market stocks are kicking sand in the face of the developed world’s equities. With China and India doing... (Continue reading)
Medellin Woman Crowned Miss World Colombia 2010
Laura Marcela Palacio Restrepo was crowned Miss Mundo Colombia 2010 at the finale held yesterday 16th of August at the Plaza de los Artesanos in Bogotá. Laura is 23 year old and stands 5’8”. She will represent Colombia in Miss... (Continue reading)
Is Colombia a new emerging leader?
The May 6 “flash crash” panicked a lot of U.S. investors, but it might have also marked the entry of a new country to the global-growth story: Colombia. The Global X InterBolsa FTSE Colombia20 exchange-traded fund ( GXG ) has... (Continue reading)
HP to Open Global Service Center in Medellin, Colombia, Building on $2.5 Billion of ICT Investment in Country
HP to Open Global Service Center in Medellin, Colombia, Building on $2.5 Billion of ICT Investment in Country On July 13, Hewlett Packard announced plans to open a state of the art Global Service Center in the city of Medellín.... (Continue reading)
For Real Estate Investors, Colombia Has a Bright Future
Written on 2 Jun, 2010 at 10:44 in News and Views, Real Estate, What To Do | viewed 642 times | 0 Comments
A few days ago, Colombian voters went to the polls for the first round of their quadrennial presidential elections. For many, it will be the most important decision of the new century thus far. The current President, Alvaro Uribe, leaves... (Continue reading)
Safety in Medellin vs The Rest of The World
I had a really great long weekend in Chicago and was fortunate enough to meet up with a couple of very interesting subscribers. President Obama was even in town, and the entire city was in a heightened state of security.... (Continue reading)
Medical Tourism on the rise in Colombian City of Medellín
Having endured waves of violence for being the command centre of a well-known cocaine empire in Colombia, the city of Medellín is experiencing a surge in medical tourism. During the 1980s and early 1990s the hospitals and morgues in Medellín... (Continue reading)
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