Agência Brasil* Brasília – The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) should commission today (04) two Mirage 2000-C aircraft of a total 12 that the country purchased from France. The commissioning ceremony, to include Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, should take place at Anápolis Air Base, in the midwestern Brazilian state of Goiás. The aircraft
Author: Mark Ament
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) signed last week an agreement with Brazilian oil giant Petrobras. In the period, the company is going to invest US$ 4.9 million in the implementation of a centre for the research of material used in oil refining. A building will be raised
Group Al Fallahin, from the city of Belo Horizonte, capital of the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, is going to release at the beginning of next year a CD with Egyptian classical music. The group is also preparing a Lebanese operetta. The group is made up of six musicians and plays classical music from 24 countries, mostly Arab.
Group Al Fallahin, from the city of Belo Horizonte, capital of the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, is going to release at the beginning of next year a CD with Egyptian classical music. The group is also preparing a Lebanese operetta. The group is made up of six musicians and plays classical music from 24 countries, mostly Arab.
The Brazilian company is a leader in technology for production in deep and ultra deep water, which should guarantee the organization new areas for work on the international market. Currently, most of the oil reserves in the world are in these areas, according to information supplied by the company.
Agência Brasil* Rio de Janeiro – The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) has approved the concession of a line of credit of US$ 420 million for the technological modernization and environmental protection at two mills belonging to the Usiminas ironworks group. The credit, to be granted over the next five yeas, is part of a special
Agência Brasil* Brasília – The extraordinary Brazilian ambassador to the Middle East, Affonso Celso de Ouro-Preto, announced today (1), in Stockholm, Sweden, a contribution of US$ 500,000 by the Brazilian government to humanitarian projects developed by the United Nations (UN) in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. He is coordinating the Brazilian delegation at the International Conference
The forecast is that 132 enterprises should be built, among hotels, apart-hotels and resorts, up to 2008. The investment should sustain the foreign tourist demand, which has been growing, and generate 15,000 jobs.
The Brazilian Savings Bank (Caixa Econômica Federal) is going to sign up to the end of the year an agreement for cooperation with the Arab country. The Moroccans want to take to their country the model of work that the Brazilian institution develops in the financing of habitation for low-income families. Caixa has similar agreements with other countries in Africa and the Caribbean.
Agência Brazil* Rio de Janeiro – The Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the sum of all that is produced in the country, grew 0.5% in the second quarter of 2006, when compared to the previous quarter. In comparison to the same quarter last year, the growth was 1.2%. In both quarters, the Brazilian economy has accumulated
The Arab countries imported 219,000 tonnes of Brazilian soy in grain in the first seven months of this year. The volume is 185% greater than that registered in the same period in 2005 and the same as the volume purchased in the whole of last year. According to the secretary general at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Michel Alaby, the Arabs are diversifying their suppliers.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Randon Group, which makes lorry trailers, railway wagons and auto parts, had revenues of R$ 1.03 billion (US$ 481 million at current exchange rates) in the first half of this year, according to figures supplied by the company. The figure was 5.4% more than the performance from January to
Students and professors of teaching institutions in the city met yesterday at the event about culture and the Arab world promoted by the Jerusalem Institute of Brazil in the city of Campinas, in the interior of the state of São Paulo. Now the idea is also to discuss the theme in colleges.
