Agência Brasil Brasília – Duo Torben Grael and Marcelo Ferreira guaranteed Brazil its third gold medal today (26), at the Athens Olympic Games. They arrived in fourth place in the tenth and second to last event in the Star class. Grael and Ferreira could have arrived up to the tenth position and guaranteed gold. With
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Agência Brasil Brasília – The government of Brazil wants to generate 200,000 new jobs in the tourism sector. Figures supplied in the Third Tourism Economic Bulletin show that businessmen in the sector are attuned to the government targets, as 63% believe in greater revenues in the coming three months. According to minister of Tourism, Walfrido
Agência Brasil Brasília – Foreign direct investment in Brazil totalled US$ 1.6 billion in the month of July. This was the best result this year in this area, well above the US$ 737 million in foreign investment in the previous month, and over the US$ 1.2 billion of July last year. These figures were supplied
Agência Brasil Athens (Greece) – Brazilian judoka Flávio Canto (-81kg) won the second Brazilian Olympic medal today at the Athens Olympic Games, at the Ano Liossia Olympic Hall. The medal, the second bronze, was also the twelfth of Brazilian judo in the history of the games. The sport has now equalled athletics and sailing as
Agência Brasil Brasília – Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be meeting minister of Tourism Walfrido dos Mares Guia at the Presidential Palace at 03:00pm today (19). Soon after that meeting, the Brazilian president will participate in a meeting regarding flights to the Middle East. Topics to be discussed include a new flight
Agência Brasil Brasília – The Brazilian trade balance registered, in the first week of July, a surplus of US$ 271 million – with export of US$ 699 million and import of US$ 428 million. With the result, the accumulated surplus in the year has risen to US$ 15.32 billion. Export from January to July 4
The Brazilian extile and garment industry generated 20,892 jobs in the first four months of 2004. This figure is way over the 2,602 in the same period last year. The sector has also had its largest trade balance surplus in 11 years.
Brazilian minister of Planning Guido Mantega stated that Brazil could increase its attraction to foreign investment in infrastructure.
The Brazilian president is going to address over 300 US, Canadian, and Mexican businessmen. The idea is to present positive facts and figures about Brazil.
Agência Brasil Brasília – The Brazilian trade balance surplus registered, in the third week of the month, between June 14 and 20, a surplus of US$ 880 million, with export of US$ 2.2 billion and import of US$ 1.32 billion. With the result, the trade balance surplus has risen to US$ 13.435 billion – export
The Brazilian government has decided to pay a larger price for organic produce from family farming. This is so as to encourage ecological agriculture in Brazil. The country already has the second largest number of farmers practicing ecological farming, losing only to Italy.
