Featuring two art exhibitions, authors’ meetings, debates, film screenings and music group performances, the Travel Literature Festival in Rome casts an eye on the East.
Cattle slaughter in Brazil grew 7.2% in the second quarter of the year as against the previous period, according to IBGE figures. Some 7.587 million heads of cattle were butchered in the period.
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.
The capital of Kurdistan is open to investment and import of products from several sectors. In October, Erbil International Fair will take place with the presence of the Arab Brazilian Chamber.
The industry’s revenues reached US$ 27.3 billion in the first eight months of the year, as against US$ 24.2 billion in the same period of 2009.
A business mission led by the Saudi minister of Agriculture, Fahad Abdulrahman Balghunaim, should arrive in the country next week. The group should meet with ministers and entrepreneurs.
The surplus in the Brazilian inflow and outflow of dollars was greatly influenced by the Petrobras capital increase, which generated great interest among foreign investors.
The 99, a group of super heroes developed by the Kuwaiti Naif Al-Mutawa, will have a Brazilian member. He should have his first appearance in the miniseries that will join the team to Justice League.
Omani and Emirati importers attended the business roundtables at the Fruit & Technology fair in São Paulo. They are seeking products such as grapes, apples, peaches, cherries, strawberries etc.
Next week in São Paulo, Islamic Development Bank representatives will give lectures on how Brazilian companies may have access to the system.
Brazilian production of the agricultural input reached 6.04 million tonnes from January to August this year, an increase of 13.9% over the same period of 2009. In august, the output rose by 11.9%.
A project develops a children’s book to tell the story of 44 Unesco world cultural and natural heritage sites in Italy. The idea is for the initiative to be reproduced in other countries.
The Brazilian and Iranian team should play a friendly game on October 7th in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the Arab country. The match was negotiated by presidents Lula and Ahmadinejad.
The organisation, responsible for promotion of Arab culture in Brazil, should promote, on Thursday, a culture festival with Arab and Gypsy dance and Samba, among others.
