Author: Gabriel Kawamura Pomerancblum
Ministries of Social Development in Arab and South American countries are going to create professional groups turned to cooperation between the two regions in the social field. This was one of the decisions made during a meeting of ministers in the area, which ended yesterday in Cairo.
A medical doctor from the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, Júlio Doin Vieira released the "Dictionary of Arabic Terms of the Portuguese Language", which reveals the origins of several words used in everyday life in Brazil. He spent two years leaning over dictionaries to research the subject.
Representatives of the Brazilian Tourism Institute (Embratur) are now in Dubai to promote Brazilian tourist destinations among professionals in the field. The idea is to present the main Brazilian tourist spots to the Arab and Asian public, as a preparation for the Dubai-São Paulo flight that the Emirates Airlines company will inaugurate in October.
Brazilian network Mundo Verde ("Green World"), which sells natural products – such as whole foods, dietetics and cosmetics – and esoteric items, such as incenses and meditation CDs, opened its first international store this year, in Luanda, Angola. Now, they are preparing to open new gateways in Portugal and in the United Arab Emirates.
The secretary general at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Michel Alaby, will participate, beginning today, in a congress of Arab Chambers. The meeting to be held in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, will serve as a forum to discuss the operation of the organisations and the rise in relations between Arab and non-Arab businessmen.
The secretary general at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Michel Alaby, will participate, beginning today, in a congress of Arab Chambers. The meeting to be held in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, will serve as a forum to discuss the operation of the organisations and the rise in relations between Arab and non-Arab businessmen.
This was one of the issues tackled yesterday by the Moroccan minister of Economic Affairs, Rachid El Alami, in a meeting with the secretary general at the Itamaraty (Brazilian foreign office), Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães. The minister also had meetings at the ministries of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Social Development, Tourism, and at the Brazilian House of Representatives.
This is one of the subjects under discussion by high-level government officials from Arab and South American countries in Cairo. They are preparing a document that will be presented at a meeting for ministers in the social field, to be held next Wednesday and Thursday at the headquarters of the League of Arab States, in the capital of Egypt. The meeting is a follow-up to the agenda set at the summit of the two regions, held in May 2005 in Brazil.
This is the largest amount ever invested in a single unit belonging to state-owned Brazilian company Petrobras. The oil company will implement 19 projects in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná by 2011. The resources will be applied in the production of coke, petrol and diesel, liquefied petroleum gas, propylene e hexane.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Brazilian Ministry of Tourism inaugurated today (27), in Dubai, an intense promotion campaign for Brazil in the Arab country. Representatives of Embratur (Brazilian Tourism Institute) are currently in the Emirates to attend the Emirates Holidays workshop, held by Emirates Airlines, and the Arabian Travel Market trade fair, which
The region has been putting effort into developing new types of production, other than petroleum, and Brazil should contribute to that process by installing local industrial bases, according to the director at the Eclac, João Carlos Ferraz, who gave a lecture at the 2nd Brazilian Congress of Innovation in Industry, which ended yesterday in the southeastern Brazilian city of São Paulo.
