Author: Alexandre Rocha
Agência Brasil Brasília – The minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, will travel to Geneva this weekend in an attempt to give a fillip to the negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) over fairer trade rules. Negotiators from the member countries of the organization were unable to achieve the desired progress towards the so-called
Agência Brasil Brasília – In an ongoing effort to expand trade with Central American countries and identify investment opportunities, the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade is sending a commercial mission to Panamá, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras at the end of May. Some 50 business leaders will be part of an
Agência Brasil Rio – Petrobras, the Brazilian state owned oil company, has announced a new discovery of light petroleum in the Espírito Santo basin, in the southeastern region of Brazil. The estimated reserves in the new well are 280 million barrels equivalent (both petroleum and natural gas combined). Spokespersons for the company say the petroleum
Agência Brasil Star City (Russia) – The three astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) who will return to planet earth this weekend, the Brazilian Marcos Pontes, the Russian Valery Tokarev and the American Willian McArtur, will make the final leg of their journey in a round capsule weighing 2.9 tons containing four square meters of
