The organisation headquartered in Davos is going to promote a meeting in the United Arab Emirates in October to discuss a ‘Global Agenda’. Among the themes are food safety and financial stability.
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A group of children in the country flew kites in Gaza to break the world kite-flying record, which belonged to China.
The country was visited by 4.2 million people in the first half of this year. There was growth in the number of visitors from many European countries, despite the continent’s dire economic situation.
Aircraft maker profited US$ 99.5 mn in the second quarter, as against US$ 77.5 mn in the same period of last year. In comparison with the first three months of 2011, however, there was a decline.
World Economic Forum will have its regional edition for the Middle East and North Africa from October 21st to 23rd. The meeting will have the ‘Arab Spring’ as its backdrop.
The Brazilian government will send 38,000 tonnes to Somalia and another 15,000 tonnes to refugee camps in Ethiopia.
The rate concerns the first half of 2011 when compared with the same period of 2010. Foreign sales reached US$ 2.746 billion. Arabs are among the leading buyers.
The Economic and Social Development Council will have partnerships with Algeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to exchange experiences and promote representative exchange.
Procable Energy and Telecommunciations, from São Paulo, should open, together with the Japanese Fujikura, a cable production unit in Rio Grande do Sul.
The Brazilian oil company’s foreign currency debt rating has gone from Baa1 to A3. The company claims that this will enable it to raise funds in better conditions.
France loaned 45 million euros to the Arab country for financial restructuring and balancing of the local electricity sector.
Volkswagen Brazil has already manufactured six million engines at its unit, opened in 1996. At the facility, 3,100 complete engines and 300 partial ones are made each day.
American Airlines announces the purchase of 460 new jets from the United States-based Boeing and the European Airbus.
Rio de Janeiro-based company Lemnos Metais will invest US$ 20.8 million in a processing unit for recyclable aluminium, copper and plastic residue in the city of Sarzedo, in the state of Minas Gerais.
