The Cira Gracia, Cimex and other hospitals that treat the foreigners have no shortages of staff, medicine or equipment and bear comparison with the world's best.

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In a letter to the CIRA Board (I was a member of the board at the time), it delivered an official request for multilingual domains to allow for the use of French language characters.

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For example, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), which manages the dot-ca domain, should pass one million domain name registrations by early 2008, yet implementation of French language characters is only likely to take place in the next few years.

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