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Grand Formosa Regent Taipei is now hosting a Central American food festival where diners can enjoy some of the finest cuisine from the region.
For this occasion, the hotel has invited six guest chefs from six Central American nations — Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama — to prepare fine dishes for guests throughout the duration of the Central American Gourmet Fiesta from now to Sept. 22.

The six chefs are Jose Antonio Vasquez from El Salvador, Manuel Enrique Rosales from Honduras, Alfonso Jaen from Panama, Euda Lisseth Morales Ruiz from Guatemala, Juan Nogueras Bussalleu from Nicaragua and Oscar Castro O’Sullivan from Costa Rica.

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Tegucigalpa. The presidents of Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras will sign an agreement to get rid of their air borders, press sources informed Wednesday.

The presidents will meet on October 4 in Tegucigalpa to authenticate direct flights among their jurisdictions, without migratory procedures.

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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian invited Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Rosales on Wednesday to visit Taiwan in October to attend National Day celebrations.

Chen extended the invitation while receiving Roberto Micheletti Bain, president of the National Congress of Honduras. He said he had a pleasant chat with Zelaya when they attended the inauguration ceremony for Costa Rican President Oscar Arias in May.

Expressing confidence that the political and economic development of Honduras will continue to improve under Zelaya’s leadership, Chen pledged that Taiwan will support Honduras’ development projects, including a hydraulic power generation project.

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Environmental Organizations and people from the locality of Valle del Siria protested the pollution of the water table with cyanide and arsenic.

Faced with evidence of locals with skin, respiratory problems and other afflictions, the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry (SERNA) confirmed those reports Wednesday.

According to the ministry, studies by experts from the organization revealed the existence of cyanide over international levels in tests of water in the Valle de Siria, the country’s eastern zone.

SERNA Minister Mayra Mejias stated that results of these tests made from August to December 2005 contained illegally high cyanide levels.

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