Brazilian News: International Edition.
Six-Time Champion TAM Airlines Wins 'Best in Travel and Tourism' AwardMarketWatch - Oct 28, 2008SAO PAULO, Brazil, Oct 28, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — TAM (BOVESPA: TAMM4 and NYSE: TAM) has just been chosen, for the sixth consecutive time …
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Ellensburg's Karen Hull's life full of travel, service, a love to …Daily Record, WA - Oct 28, 2008As a child living in San Paolo, Brazil, she soon learned she loved to interact with people from other cultures. She learned she loved to travel. …
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Wall Street Journal
The Buck Is BackWall Street Journal - Oct 27, 2008Take, for instance, Brazil, one of the emerging markets hit hard by the flight to safety. In local terms, Brazilian stocks have plunged about 53% this year. …
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Wall Street Journal
Airlines Plot Latin America CourseWall Street Journal - 2 hours agos American next month will launch new flights to Brazil, the region's biggest and most promising economy, with one route serving Recife and Salvador, …Delta Adds a Latin Beat to Holiday Travel With Nine New Flights … istockAnalyst.com (press release)Delta Air Lines: Delta Adds [...]
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The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates by half a percentage point to 1 per cent and announced that it would lend bn each to central banks in Brazil, Mexico, South Korea and Singapore to lend on to local banks
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Sydney Morning Herald
Dollar's plunge means good times are over for Australian travellersSydney Morning Herald, Australia - 5 hours agoCountries where the dollar remains strong are few and far between, with Canada, Brazil and Chile among the places that still offer decent value. …
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Richard Belzer, Ice-T Jack Up the ElectionVillage Voice, NY - 5 hours agoI came here from Brazil 26 years ago. We were under a military dictatorship in Brazil—there was a lack of freedom, of civil liberties. …
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Amex Predicts Less Global Business Travel, Higher CostsThe Transnational, NY - 10 hours agoIn Latin America, airfares are expected to rise by a few percentage points, with larger increases in Argentina and Brazil. Brazil also is expected to show …
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ILS3 restructures group website and its travel company becomes the …PRLog.Org (press release), Romania - 12 hours agoPRLog (Press Release) – Oct 29, 2008 – Salvador, Bahia, Brazil – The successful Luxury tailor-made Travel Company, the Discover.Travel Group, previously …
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SkySports
F-1 finish at the start of global recessionproUA.com, Ukraine - 12 hours agoThe final round of the 59th season of the Formula One car racing championship will take place in Sao Paolo, Brazil on November 2. Fans of Formula One racing …Win a trip to the Spanish Grand Prix Times OnlineF1 : 2008 Brazil - Williams F1 [...]
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A team of retired Brazilian footballers left Yangon Wednesday after raising ,000 for victims of Cyclone Nargis via charity games in the country, the Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) said.
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Brazil and Mexico led a recovery of Latin American markets Tuesday, mirroring gains on Wall Street and boosted by positive results from major commodities companies.Brazilian stocks were up sharply aft…
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Brazilian footwear exports to the Middle East have exceeded .5m or 3.1 million pairs from January to September this year, effectively tripling the total value of the country's footwear exports to t…
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Brazil's government is considering pushing back the deadline for companies to pay federal tax, Finance Minister Guido Mantega said Tuesday in a meeting with the country's industrialists. The delay, re…
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Brazil's Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) started on Tuesday its penultimate meeting of this year, in which it will decide whether to modify the country's annual basic interest rate (Selic). Most eco…
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the world economic crisis decided Monday that protectionist policies adopted throughout the region in past decades would be a serious mistake. Foreign and finance ministers from Mercosur economic bloc…
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Top South American officials, in an emergency meeting to discuss the world economic crisis, decided on Monday that protectionist policies adopted throughout the region in past deca…
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oral races in weekend elections — giving it a boost ahead of the 2010 presidential race. Electoral authorities say the Workers Party of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will control 566 city hall…
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A majority of Latin-Americans know little or nothing about the coming US presidential election but a modest majority, 29%, believe Democrat Barack Obama would be more convenient for the region, accord…
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Switzerland-based Syngenta announced that it is developing a new technology to dramatically improve the cost efficiency of sugar cane planting in Brazil. Syngenta's innovation, the company says, w…
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The financial crisis hitting the world has lit a warning light for the Brazilian auto industry, after all, the sector is very global. This does not mean, however, that the companies are pessimistic ab…
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Palestinian National Authority's new ambassador to Brazil, Ibrahim Alzeben, who was inaugurated in July, wants to take the Brazilian experience in the areas of alternative energy, sports and urban…
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equity markets soared Tuesday as investors in the region and on Wall Street set aside worries about global recession to take part in a buying spree.
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Australian Taj Burrow has lived up to his top billing by advancing past the first round of competition at the Santa Catarina Pro in Brazil.Burrow, the 2005 winner of the event, is the top seed followi…
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A government Web site for Brazil's prostitutes that suggests they be prepared to perform fantasies and offer specialties, among other tips, is going to be toned down. Pro…
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BRAZIL: October 29, 2008 SAO PAULO - The global credit crunch delivered the latest punch to the gut of Brazil's ethanol and sugar industry, which has been struggling with low margins over the past c…
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After two days of meetings, the second China-Latin America Entrepreneurs Summit came to a close on Oct 21. The summit has achieved great results and more than 10 business or association agreements wer…
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Posted on: Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 15:00 CDT Team Latin America walked away as winner of the "Engine Room," an original, short-form online series in which four teams of digital artists from aroun…
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Bolivian President Evo Morales on Tuesday launched work on a 0 million petroleum exploration effort in the northern province of La Paz. The project is part of the 3 million in investment plan…
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SAN SALVADOR, Oct 28 (IPS) - On the eve of the 18th Ibero-American Summit in the capital of El Salvador, President Antonio Saca still refuses to sign the bloc's Convention protecting young people's ri…
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Several multinationals in the auto industry have elected Brazil, for some time now, as the hub for development of new cars. This way, among the main novelties of the 25th International Automobile Trad…
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US-based Continental Airlines announced this Tuesday, October 28, that it has filed an application with the American Department of Transportation (DOT) to operate daily year-round service between its …
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368 academics specializing in Latin America. anticipating a democratic victory in the November 4 US presidential elections sent a letter urging Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama to becom…
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A new report says Latin America and the Caribbean will feel the impact of the global economic slowdown in lower demand for commodities and less money sent home by family members working elsewhere.The …
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Petrobras and Galp Energia will sign a MOU during the 9th Brazil-Portugal Summit Meeting in Salvador to assess the possibility to establish and/or maintain partnerships with Petrobras to allow Galp to…
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Exports from Latin America and the Caribbean are on track to grow at an estimated 23 per cent this year, despite the global financial crisis, according to a report released today by the United Nations…
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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Major Latin American equity markets surged Tuesday and were on pace to break multi-session losing streaks, led by Brazil's rebound from a three-year low largely on strengt…
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-(Dow Jones)- Brazilian auto makers will be looking back on another year of record sales come Christmas but will be casting a wary eye on the prospects for 2009.
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Brasil Telecom and Oi (formerly known as Telemar) have been in talks for several months over a proposed deal in which Oi would buy BrT for an estimated R.85bn (.8bn).However, the deal depends on t…
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The striker has not payed since rupturing a tendon in his left knee since in February and has been recovering in his homeland after leaving Milan over the summer. He is eager to sign with Flamengo …
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Posted on: Tuesday, 28 October 2008, 09:00 CDT GENBAND Inc., a market-leading developer of next-generation IP infrastructure solutions, today announced that Sanjay Bhatia, Director of Product Line …
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TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire - Oct. 28, 2008) - Apogee Minerals Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:APE) today announced it has increased the mineral resources at its Pulacayo-Paca project (To view Figure 1, please vi…
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SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — Despite talking to Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, Ronaldo says he wants to play for Brazil's Flamengo next year — but may retire if he fails to get back to his bes…
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YANGON, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) — Associacao Missao Esperanca (AME) soccer team from Brazil played second fund-raising charity soccer match for Myanmar cyclone Nargis victims with the Myanmar All Stars team…
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Brazil's Central Bank on Monday announced new steps to ease reserve requirement rules in a bid to increase liquidity in the markets. One of the steps is to give a discount in the compulsory deposits t…
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United States is in decline. "The U.S. Fourth Fleet can come to Latin America, but a Russian fleet can't?" said Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa. "If you ask me, any country and any fleet that …
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Paraguay has broken the Guinness World Record for the largest one day open-air barbecue. In total, some 30,000 participants consumed 28 kilos of meat over the course of six hours in the Mariano Roque…
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Protectionism "cannot be the response," Brazil's foreign minister says says Foreign and finance ministers and central bank presidents attend meeting Protectionist economic policies would hur…
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Brazilian striker Ronaldo, one of the finest players of his generation, has decided to turn his back on European football in favour of a move back to his homeland and a possible contract with Flamengo.
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