Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be honoured by the Federation of Muslim Associations in Brazil next Monday in São Paulo.
Exhibition at the Tomie Ohtake Institute, in São Paulo, features contemporary artwork by Arabs and Muslims. The show will continue until April 3rd.
This week, Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik started a cycle of lectures on the foreign policies of Latin American countries. The first theme was Brazil.
On Monday (18) the city of São Paulo should receive a programme celebrating the National Day of the Arab Community. There should be from talks and shows to homage to descendants.
The Brazilian Development Bank and the Studies and Projects Funding Body should finance development of new sector technologies and products. The aim is to keep Brazil in the biofuel lead.
The increase took place over an eight-year period. During the period, annual consumption in Brazil has gone from 113 to 125 kilograms per person. The information was supplied by the IBGE.
The president claimed that Brazil is going to invest US$ 6.5 billion in fertilizer manufacturing. The country imports most of what it consumes.
The National Service of Industrial Education (Senai) signed an agreement with TVTC, a Saudi professional training institute, to provide training to its managers and teachers this year.
The city of Uberaba, in Minas Gerais, should receive an ammonia production unit and a gas pipeline turned to the enterprise. The works should begin in February next year.
Delegation of businessmen from the African country visited a construction fair in São Paulo seeking partners and domestic products. They praised the products but found the prices to be high.
The Foreign Trade Chamber has extended the tax exemption on the product’s imports to trading companies. In the past, only textile industries were eligible.
The company is slowly resuming operations at its assembly centre in the Arab country. In Libya, however, plans to open a similar unit have been postponed.
The increase was recorded over December. Compared with January 2010, there was growth of 4.58%, according to information supplied by the Central Bank.
For the first time since it was established, in 1974, the Arab-Syrian Cultural Centre of São Paulo is headed by a woman. Majd Al Shara is a master and doctoral student in literature.
