Author: Mark Ament
Agência Brasil Asunción – President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is in Asunción, Paraguay, for the 28th Mercosur Summit. He is accompanied by the ministers of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, and Mines and Energy, Dilma Rousseff. Yesterday Lula met with the presidents of the other Mercosur members (Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) and attended a dinner
The 16 medical and hospital product producers from Egypt, who participated in the Hospitalar fair in São Paulo, believe that the Brazilian market has potential to import their products. They intend to return next year, not only to export. They also want to establish joint ventures with Brazilian companies.
Brand Patachou, signed by stylist Tereza Santos, and female shoe producer Spatifilus plan to establish partnerships with local distributors to expand their exports to the Arab countries. Gem and jewel industry Empire, in turn, believes that the Jewellery Arabia fair, to take place in Bahrain, may be a good start for the first contact with the region.
Fahion Rio presents the 2005-2006 spring/summer collections (for the southern hemisphere). The event began on Tuesday (14) and ends on Sunday (19), in the capital of the southeastern Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. In the sidelines of the parades, there is a jewellery exhibition, where jewels made by 26 designers are being shown, and a business fair.
Agência Brasil Brasília – Fifteen out of the twenty-four Latin American and Caribbean nations have met Millennium Development goals in reducing malnutrition and hunger, improving access to potable water and gender equality in education. However, they are behind in reducing absolute poverty, universal access to education and environmental protection. That is the result of a
Agência Brasil Brasília – Fifteen out of the twenty-four Latin American and Caribbean nations have met Millennium Development goals in reducing malnutrition and hunger, improving access to potable water and gender equality in education. However, they are behind in reducing absolute poverty, universal access to education and environmental protection. That is the result of a
The president of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB), Antonio Sarkis Jr., presented yesterday, to businessmen from Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, the sectors in which the Arabs are potential suppliers, among them cotton, fertilizers, gum Arabic and food products, like sardines. The secretary general of the organization, Michel Alaby, was in charge of showing economic figures about the 14 Arab countries that have diplomatic representation in Brazil.
Geovana Pagel, special envoy* Belo Horizonte – Over 100 businessmen from various industrial sectors in the state of Minas Gerais, among them garment manufacturing, mining, jewellery, shoe and medical equipment, participated in the seminar organized by the Federation of Industries of the State of Minas Gerais (Fiemg), during the official visit of the Council of
