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Agência Brasil Recife – Research centres that work with stem cells in Brazil will receive investments from the Ministry of Science and Technology, to expand their scientific activities in search for treatment and cure of diseases, announced Minister Eduardo Campos. He was participating this Monday (4) on a seminar about the new Biosecurity Law, at

From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade announced yesterday (10) that 14 Brazilians were contemplated with the iF Product Design Award 2005, the main international design award that takes place every year, in Hanover, Germany. One of the products, according to the ministry, won the "Gold" trophy, which

The total for the next 10 years was defined during the programme revision works by the Brazilian Space Agency. For 2005, the forecasted budget is of US$ 100 million, but the quantity may be increased. The launching of the fourth prototype of the satellite launcher rocket VLS-1 is expected to take place in 2006, as well as the first journey to space by Brazilian astronaut Marcos Pontes, trained by NASA.

Brazilian company Consult & Television is responsible for the installation in Brazil of the transmission system of 10 television channels from Lebanon, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Libya and Yemen. The service has already been installed for around 3,000 users, according to the company director, Hugo Alabi. The search for Arab television channels has been increasing among Brazilians, said Alabi.

While visiting Brazil, the director of ComputerMan, Abubaker Mustafa Mohd Khair, signed a contract for technology and student and professor exchange with the institution in the Federal District. Khair, who will be returning to Sudan on Saturday, intends to close other similar partnerships up to next year. He is also interested in taking flower cultivation technology to the African country, as his university is going to open a research centre in the area in Ethiopia.

Agência Brasil Brasília – Brazil may have its first astronaut in space in 2006. It is expected that by then Brazilian Air Force lieutenant colonel Marcos Pontes, who has been in training in the US since 1998, will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS). According to the president of the Brazilian Space Agency

Agência Brasil Brasil – One of the bilateral endeavors that Brazil and China are working together on is in the space research area where they have jointly launched satellites. The effort is now about to bear fruit. The sale of images from the Brazil-China Earth Resources Satellite (Cbers-2) should bring revenue to Brazil and China

Agência Brasil Brasília – The First Latin American Conference on Open Source Software (Latinoware 2004) will begin this evening at the Hotel Rafain Palace, in Foz do Iguaçu (PR). The Brazilian director-general of Itaipu Binacional, Jorge Samek, will preside over the opening ceremony. The conference will discuss the evolution, distribution and use of open source