Brazilian soccer team Grêmio will compete on the FIFA Club World Cup on December 12 to 16 in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi. Qualification increased sales of travel agencies and motivated the fans to visit the Middle East.
The organization welcomed clerics from the Arab community in São Paulo on Monday at an event to mark the end of the year.
Industrial production climbed year-on-year and hit its highest number since April 2013.
Brazilian medical technology association Abimo and export promotion agency Apex-Brasil have renewed their commercial promotion agreement, with plans including going to four expos in Dubai, as well as having a mission to the region in 2018.
The comic book ‘Brimos’ (translated as ‘Cousins’, alluding to the way Arabs called themselves) will have its script written by journalist and historian Marta Tajra and architect and designer Paulo Akl. It will be launched in mid-2018.
The United Nation’s agencies will need USD 22.5 billion for basic aid to 91 million vulnerable people in 2018.
The financial market expects the economy to grow 0.89% this year, against last week’s forecast of 0.73%. Estimative for 2018 also improved.
The second issue of Projeto Walk features the results of a survey on consumption trends and brands in the Arab city. The project’s creator and researcher Marcos Hiller travelled to the emirate in 2016.
Tivoli Hotels & Resorts is now managing the Souq Waqif hotel chain in Doha. This allows for the sharing of staff and sales platform, and it should give Brazil-Qatar tourist flows a boost.
The trade surplus from January to October is the highest for the period and is the result of USD 200 billion in exports and USD 138 billion in imports.
Brazilian economy expanded from July to September over the three previous months, in the third consecutive increase. Over the same period of last year, the growth reached 1.4%.
Women from Brazil who live in Lebanon formed a group to raise awareness through education. ‘Ecogrupo Brasil Líbano’ is currently 30-strong and accepting new members.
Brazil’s ministries of Agriculture and Foreign Affairs are taking companies that need cash for their projects to a meeting in Abu Dhabi with funds from across the Gulf. Registration ends on Monday.
The changes that the new bill brings to the relations between employers and workers were detailed to the organization’s members this Thursday (30) by law firm Souto Correa Cesa Lummertz & Amaral Advogados.

