Brazilian designer Milena Hamaní creates the threads that she uses in her collections using yarn made from PET bottles. She has just closed her first foreign sales deals.

A partnership between the Export Promotion Agency and the Architecture Firms Association aims to export US$ 3.5 million in services. One of the first actions will occur in October, in the Emirates.

Iraqi minister of Industry Fawzi Hariri, who visited Santa Catarina, said that the popular housing project should take seven years. The government should also build 4,000 schools and 28 hospitals.

The restaurants owned by Fakher Shames, in Tripoli offer typical dishes and also Brazilian food, as a result of the influence of almost 14 years during which the Libyan businessman lived in Brazil.

Publishing house Martins Fontes launched book "Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales" in Brazil. The work retrieves tales told among populations in African countries, among them Morocco.

Article ‘A new age in the farmland,’ by journalists Isaura Daniel and Geovana Pagel, won the Internet category. This is the third consecutive year that the agency is granted the journalism award.