Author: Agência Brasil

Agência Brasil Brasília – The Ministry of Culture reports that it intends to open 1,300 new public libraries by the year 2006. The libraries will be established in locations that do not have libraries. The project is part of a new "Hunger for Books" program launched by minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil. "The idea is

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Agência Brasil Brasília – The Ministry of Culture reports that it intends to open 1,300 new public libraries by the year 2006. The libraries will be established in locations that do not have libraries. The project is part of a new "Hunger for Books" program launched by minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil. "The idea is

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Agência Brasil Brasília – The Ministry of Culture wants Unesco to declare the samba a World Cultural Heritage. The decision to make the request official was made at a meeting attended by minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, the president of the Institute of Historical and Artistic Landmarks (Iphan), Antônio Augusto Arantes, and the sociologist and cultural

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Agência Brasil Brasília – The Ministry of Culture wants Unesco to declare the samba a World Cultural Heritage. The decision to make the request official was made at a meeting attended by minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, the president of the Institute of Historical and Artistic Landmarks (Iphan), Antônio Augusto Arantes, and the sociologist and cultural

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Agência Brasil Recife – Brazil will encourage the population to increase fish consumption, which currently amounts to 6.8 kilograms per capita, annually, well below the international average of 20 kilos. This information was provided today by the acting Minister of the Special Secretariat of Aquiculture and Fishing, Romeu Porto, during the Seminar on Strategies for

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