when workers from China arrived to build the Panama Railway and later the canal. For over six decades, they shed sweat and blood – and thousands paid with their lives – to build the projects ...

Panama City — Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino on Thursday denied the U.S. State Department's claim that his country had reached a deal to allow U.S. warships to transit the Panama Canal ...

the US built a railway. In 1869, French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had delivered the Suez Canal through Egypt, agreed to replicate the feat in 1881 in Panama (then a province of Colombia).

Donald Trump has begun his second term as president by ramping up pressure on Panama – threatening to “take back” the Panama ...

The 50-mile Panama ... Railway, was to halt excavation work and rebuild the rail system so it could carry away the tons of dirt and rock. Stevens also scrapped the plan for a sea-level canal ...