Brazilian News: International Edition.
LatinExcursions' Founder – Eric Sheets – Named in Travel + Leisure …MediaSyndicate (press release) - Oct 22, 2008Founded by Eric Sheets in 2001 and headquartered in Miami, Latin Excursions arranges custom travel to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador & the …
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AsiaOne
Aim: Retire early and travelAsiaOne, Singapore - Oct 21, 2008Tough to pick one, but the most memorable - and counter-intuitive - one was probably when I was working with GE in Brazil in the second half of 1998. …
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SkySports
No Shanghai Surprises for HamiltonThe Epoch Times, NY - Oct 22, 2008Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain (McLaren–Mercedes) leads from Kimi Raikkonen of Finland (Ferrari) and Felipe Massa of Brazil (Ferrari) at the first corner …A race weekend with… Lewis Hamilton Formula 1Lewis Hamilton: All the pressure is on Felipe Massa in Formula One … Telegraph.co.ukSarah's Scorn Corner: [...]
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BBC News
Brazil squares up to economic stormBBC News, UK - Oct 20, 2008"Brazil was doing better than in the past but we still had a long road to travel." Now, watching the scale of recent economic events, agricultural producers …
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AFP
Jordan's king cutting short Latin America tripAFP - Oct 22, 2008On Thursday the royal couple and a delegation of business leaders will travel as planned to Brazil. But they will not then travel on to Costa Rica, …
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PERSONS OF THE WEEKIndia Journal, CA - 2 hours agoThe new business became Student International Travel Association (SITA). Dengler pioneered travel beyond Europe and eventually took a foot hold in providing …
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PM in Beijing to attend AsemLivemint, India - 5 hours agoBeijing: Amid reports that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is getting ready to travel to the US on 15 November to attend a summit meeting on the global …
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Times Online
The ultimate relationship test: round the world togetherTimes Online, UK - 8 hours agoTry some of these suggestions to stave off that mental meltdown, says Alex James Voluntourism combines travel with doing good. …
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Thai tranny pageant cancelledStraits Times, Singapore - 11 hours agoLast year's contest was won by Miss Thailand, with contestants from Brazil and the Philippines finishing as runners up. Organisers of the pageant said they …
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British Grand Prix driver Lewis Hamilton, current leader of the Formula 1 World Championship, is set to become a sort of 'chauffeur' next week in Sao Paulo.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — The president of Brazil's state-run oil company says the financial crisis means investment plans for new oil finds will be delayed.Sergio Gabrielli says some investments for the mas…
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(2 hrs 37 mins ago) State-run Export-Import Bank of Korea said it had raised US0 million (HK.17 billion) through a 1-year Brazilian real-denominated bond issue worth US0 million and a US m…
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Reporting from Buenos Aires and Bogota, Colombia — Argentina's incendiary new plan to nationalize billions of dollars in private pension funds spooked already jittery investors Wednesday and helped …
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Dragged down by the bearish behavior of international markets and fears of a global recession, the Brazilian stock market tumbled over 10% this Wednesday, October 22. Losses intensified at the end of …
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PORTLAND, Ore. - Even as debate has roiled for months over a proposal to bury radioactive waste from Italy in Utah, plans for a shipment from South America have been quietly in the works. But the pl…
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RIO-DE-JANEIRO, October 23 (RIA Novosti) - Fifty-eight penguins have been released into the wild off the coast of the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, national media said on Thursday. So…
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Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said Wednesday that the upcoming summit of the Common Market of the South (Mercosur), will allow ministers of member states to prepare coordinated measures again…
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The CBERS is currently part of the main Earth-observing mission programs in the world, together with the U.S. Landsat, French Spotand Indian ResoruceSat.
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A man holds lottery tickets featuring a photograph of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in Medellin, Colombia, on Wednesday. Gloria Gonzalez, director of the Meta Lottery, said the compan…
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after Congress approved holding a referendum on his new constitution empowering Bolivia’s long-oppressed Indian majority. Bolivia’s first indigenous president wiped away tears as he waded into a c…
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hot in his Rio de Janeiro home told police Tuesday he was responsible for the crime, but said it was “accidental.” Roberto Costa Junior, 28, turned himself in the day after the killing of 73-year-…
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SANTIAGO, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) — Latin American and Caribbean governments should redouble efforts to widen economic and trade cooperation with the Asia-Pacific region, the Economic Commission for Latin A…
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The Ferrari driver said the crowd expected to pack the Interlagos track for the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix on Nov 2 will give him an important advantage as he tries to erase a seven-point defi…
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Perth, Western Australia–(marketwire - Oct. 22, 2008) - Not For Distribution To United States Newswire Services Or For Dissemination In The United States Troy Resources Nl ("troy") (tsx:try)(asx:tr…
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Argentine markets plunged for a second straight session Wednesday after the government formally launched plans to take control of asset management from local, private pension funds.
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The Brazilian national soccer team received a new sponsorship from the Brazilian bank Itau on Wednesday. The bank will be offering the team nearly 15 million U.S. dollars per year. The objective of th…
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(SPP/IFEX) - The following is an abbreviated version of a 21 October 2008 SPP press release: Lawyer assaults journalistsSPP condemns assault on journalists in Ciudad del Este The SPP condemns th…
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Sao Paulo/Buenos Aires - Trading at the Sao Paulo stock exchange was again suspended Wednesday, for the sixth time in three weeks, after the fall in its leading index Bovespa went beyond the 10 per ce…
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Trading on Brazil's stockmarket, the biggest in Latin America, was automatically suspended Wednesday when the main Bovespa index plunged more than 10 percent. The stockmarket was suspended for 30 minu…
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22 October 2008 A long standing land dispute in Brazil between landless workers movements and a Swiss multinational, which led to the deaths of two men, has been brought to a conclusion. Agrochem…
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"We originally expected to reach 26 million tons in 2008, and now we expect to reach about 24 million tons, close to last year's figure, due mainly to the lack of credit," Daher told Dow Jones Newsw…
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The Brazilian national soccer team will be sponsored by Banco Itau until 2014 in a deal reportedly worth nearly US0 million (euro77.8 million).The Brazilian bank will be joining Nike, cell phone op…
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Four miles under the ocean's surface off Brazil's lush coast lie billions of barrels of recently discovered light crude — a treasure that could transform the country into an oil su…
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Brasilia - The Brazilian government on Wednesday authorized the country's main state financial institutions - the Bank of Brazil and the Federal Economic Bank (CEF) - to acquire stakes in private bank…
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Evo Morales celebrated after Congress gave the green light to the referendum, with the proposed constitution expected to easily pass in the January vote
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SAO PAULO, Brazil – The Brazilian government announced Wednesday it will allow two state-controlled banks to buy stakes in private financial institutions, hoping to limit damage from the global …
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As America's Hispanic population grows, music from Latin America has surged in popularity in the United States. Musicians - particularly those from Mexico - have struck a cord with US audiences. But a…
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CORDOBA, ARGENTINA–(Marketwire - October 22, 2008) - Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) — Brazilian miner Vale (NYSE:RIO) (Rio de Janeiro), the world's largest iron ore pr…
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CHICAGO, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ — NAVTEQ, a leading global provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, has been chosen by Elef, a Brazil-based mobile phone provide…
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October 22, 2008 - 11:05 a.m. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentina's benchmark stock index plunged nearly 13 percent in early trading Wednesday after the president announced plans to nation…
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HELSINKI, FINLAND–(Marketwire - October 22, 2008) - Metso Corporation Press release on October 22, 2008 at 1.00 p.m. Metso will supply a complete crushing and screening system to Construtora N…
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Bolivia's Congress has approved holding a referendum on a new constitution that President Evo Morales says will empower the country's indigenous majority. The decision came after hours of debate in w…
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Argentine markets reeled Tuesday as worries mounted that the government would launch a takeover of local, private pension funds. A proposal by President
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The Brazilian government collected 55.66 billion reais (25.89 billion U.S. dollars) in taxin September, up 2.95 percent from August and 8.06 percent from the same period last year, the country's Inter…
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A Brazilian delegation of businessmen, scientists and technicians in the area of renewable energy will be attending the second edition of the World Renewable Energy Forum, to be held from January 19 t…
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The presidents of the central banks of the main economies in Latin America met this Monday, in Santiago, Chile, and disclosed a joint statement showing that their countries are "in better conditi…
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Reported from La Paz, Bolivia and Buenos Aires — Bolivian legislators on Tuesday agreed to schedule a national referendum on their country's controversial draft constitution, a major victory for lef…
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SAO PAULO, Brazil — Brazil has spent .9 billion since the worldwide financial crisis began in an attempt to stabilize its tanking currency against the U.S. dollar, the central bank president said…
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BRASILIA, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) — Brazil has so far injected 22.9 billion U.S. dollars into the country's economy in a bid to boost its currency against the U.S. dollar since the world financial shock beg…
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ion and early polls next year after left-wing indigenous President Evo Morales vowed to contest just one more re-election. The accord paves the way for a vote in congress to enshrine the deal and set …
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