The US will deploy troops along the Panama Canal for training, ... despite the decades-long US occupation of the canal zone and US invasion 35 years ago to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega.

They had subsidised housing, their own police and judiciary, ... Fourth of July celebrations in Balbao, in the Panama Canal Zone in 1955. Credit: US National Archive, digitally tinted.

Even if a sea-level canal is constructed on the present site, the economy of Panama will suffer as the result of a significant reduction in the labor needed to operate the canal and in the businesses ...

Chinese antitrust regulators are investigating a US consortium’s deal for two ports in the Panama Canal zone, delaying the deal’s closing that was originally set for next week.

Chinese antitrust regulators are investigating a US consortium’s deal for two ports in the Panama Canal zone, delaying the deal’s closing that was originally set for next week.

Chinese antitrust regulators are investigating a US consortium’s deal for two ports in the Panama Canal zone, reportedly delaying the deal’s closing that was originally set for next week ...

American asset management giant BlackRock has agreed to buy two ports at either end of the Panama Canal from a Hong Kong-based firm whose ownership had angered President Donald Trump.

Under the 1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, the United States took over the 10-mile-wide Canal Zone, paying a one-time US$10 million payment to Panama, and an annual annuity of US$250,000. In 1904 the US ...

Today, Panama has a population of 4.5 million people and operates as a democracy. They have a standing military of an estimated 80,000 personnel. The Panama Canal Zone is 50 miles long and 10 ...