‘Dialogues with the Pharaonic world’ will be the theme of a conference due in the city from June 4th to 6th. The director of the Egyptian Museum in Munich, Sylvia Schoske, should give two lectures.
During the event, the Abimo is going to promote business roundtables with 24 importers from 15 countries, among them Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Qatar. Companies from Egypt, in turn, should exhibit.
The Asian country disclosed a list of 22 slaughterhouses in Brazil that are authorised to sell to China. As a result, foreign sales of chicken meat should rise by 5% this year and by 10% in 2010.
The Brazilian Development Bank and the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade should create the institution turned to export finance.
Representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture told farmers that they must unite to expand their production and cater to the market. The Middle East is one of the most promising destinations.
The Export Promotion Agency is planning an exhibition of Brazilian products in Senegal. West African countries will be invited, including Mauritania. Minister Miguel Jorge should tour the region.
Brasília – The volume of credit in the financial system totalled 1.248 trillion Brazilian reals (US$ 592 billion) in April, a figure equivalent to 42.6% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), i.e. the sum of all goods and services produced in Brazil. The figures were disclosed today (27th) by the Central Bank. In March, the
Brasília – The chairman of the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES), Luciano Coutinho, said today (27th) that the Brazilian economy may grow up to 4% in 2010. According to him, the industry should “start getting out of idleness” still this year, as a result of a solid domestic market. “In the coming months, investment may be
Brasília – The 2009-2010 crop will count on 93 billion reals (US$ 45.9 billion) in financing, of which approximately 15 billion reals (US$ 7.4 billion) are earmarked for family farming. The information was supplied by the Brazilian minister of Agriculture, Reinhold Stephanes, while leaving a meeting with the minister of Finance, Guido Mantega, during which
A book by Italian designer Vincenzo Scarpellini shows pictures of the city, in pastel. Among the sceneries identified by the foreign eye of the artist is restaurant Almanara, in the centre.
This month, their expenses have totalled US$ 653 million. In the year, Brazilians have already spent US$ 2.687 billion abroad.
The Arab country is starting to establish a sports community and wants to become reference in Olympic education. For this, the director of the Doha Olympic Museum, Christian Wacker, is in Brazil.
Biologist Marcelo Mazzolli went to the Dhofar mountains, in Oman, to study the animal. The conclusion, pointing to smaller numbers of the creature, will be disclosed to the scientific community.
Brasília – Current transactions (all operations of Brazil abroad) resulted in a surplus of US$ 146 million in April. However, year to date, the result is a deficit of US$ 4.874 billion. This information was disclosed today (26) by the Central Bank. The positive result last month was the first after 18 months running of

