President Donald Trump has made repeated claims that China “operates” the Panama Canal in recent weeks and has threatened to ...

The Panama Railroad was meant to revolutionize travel, offering a faster route to the California Gold Rush, but its construction came at a devastating human cost. Disease, treacherous terrain ...

China's BRI project has remained under criticism in recent times, as it is dubbed a 'debt trap' with many countries ...

In his inaugural address last month, Donald Trump described the US decision to hand full control of the canal to Panama, in ...

In the 1850s, as speculators and fortune-hunters travelled from the East Coast of the US to California for the Gold Rush, Wall Street investors constructed a railway across the Isthmus of Panama, then ...

If you're flexible enough to travel on a one-way cruise – and have extra time to explore far-flung locales along the way – ...

In our news wrap Monday, crews started recovering several parts of the passenger jet that collided mid-air with a military helicopter, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Norfolk Southern for ...

(MENAFN- The Rio Times) Panama's government has unveiled plans for a major railway project connecting David to the Costa Rican border. President José Raúl Mulino and the National Railway ...

Frederick Mears worked as an engineer on the construction of the Panama Canal. His work there caught the eye of President Woodrow Wilson, who had plans for a new railroad for the Alaska territory.

Panama’s small Chinese community traces its roots in the 19th century and the arrival of laborers who came to help build the railroad, then the canal, that cross the isthmus. | Ben Schreckinger ...