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Bikinis and beach clothes by ‘areiabranca’, made in Ilhota, Santa Catarina, have already won the Europeans and North Americans. Now the company is working to supply an order of 9,000 items.

The region is one cattle farm after the other, clumps of woods and small cities. Heading west, however, the scenery changes due to mining, an activity explored by large companies like Vale.

With lower expansion of credit and without speculation, Islamic banks suffered less with the global economic crisis. They follow the laws of Islam and were the theme of a seminar in São Paulo.

ANBA is among a group of journalists travelling from São Paulo to Pará by car, to visit some of the main areas in the Amazon, like Carajás, Serra Pelada and Belo Monte.

Registration of motor vehicles in Brazil reached 3.8 million units from January to September this year, according to data supplied by the National Motor Vehicle Dealership Association (Fenabrave).

The country’s foreign sales generated US$ 18.8 billion in September against US$ 13.8 billion in the same month in 2009. The Brazilian trade balance had a US$ 1 billion surplus.

The dollar has dropped to the lowest value in the last two years this Thursday and is equivalent to 1.69 real. To analysts, however, the variation should not impact greatly on Brazilian foreign trade.

The new OTB Concepts shop, to open in the Kuwaiti capital on the 10th, should join fashion and art of Brazil and five other countries. Among the garment brands are Marcelu Ferraz, Zeferino and Osklen.

Artist Miriam Pires has made her talent into business and has become an exporter of artistic ecological paper. It is made from natural fibre and gets to the Untied States, Spain and France.