Artists from Lebanon, Morocco and Kuwait will participate in the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil starting on Friday. They will present videos, installations and pictures.
In a meeting between Arab Foreign ministers and the Foreign Minister of Brazil, Antonio Patriota, topics discussed included food safety and possible agricultural cooperation between the nations.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which runs the country’s transitional government, announced the timetable for the parliamentary elections today.
The European Parliament ratified an agreement signed with the PNA that opens up the continent’s market to agricultural and fishery products from the occupied territories.
The organization collaborates with Qatar Investor Window 2011, an event to bring together companies and investors from the Arab country. Brazilian enterprises will have an enrolment discount.
A total of 322 foreign direct investment projects were announced in the first half of this year, as against 430 in the same period in 2010. The movement reflects the revolutions in the region.
Special Tax Refund Regime for Exporting Companies (Reintegra) should enter into force early next month, according to the Brazilian minister of Development, Fernando Pimentel.
The minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Fernando Pimentel, spoke at a luncheon hosted by the Arab Brazilian Chamber on Monday. He discussed the economic scenario.
The African Development Bank is going to transfer US$ 7.5 million to the IMF for a project to help strengthen financial institutions and to fight poverty.
In the fourth week of September, Brazilian exports reached US$ 5.1 billion and imports hit US$ 5.7 billion.
With 180 great business fairs, Brazil receives almost 50,000 foreign buyers a year. These events are country windows to the foreign market and have a turnover of US$ 1.9 billion.
The writer from Rio de Janeiro is one of the stars of the new crop of Brazilian authors, and will have one of his books, ‘The Enigma of Qaf’, translated into Arabic and published in Egypt.
Brazilian company Ebit estimated the national industry’s revenues for this year. The figure represents a 36% increase over 2010.
IMF figures show that the country has the greatest per capita GDP and show that, in 2016, income of each citizen may be double that of the North Americans.
