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Brazilians will aid Lebanese schools
This Tuesday (1) in your ANBA Bulletin: Rotary launched a campaign in Brazil to help bring electrical power to schools in Lebanon, a country facing a severe energy crisis. The Light for the Future [Luz para o Futuro] project was launched at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce headquarters in São Paulo and aims to install photovoltaic panels in ten Lebanese educational institutions.
In a special report on the changes taking place in Brazilian retail since the pandemic, specialists give tips on what foreign brands should consider when selling to the Brazilian market and the main current consumption channels.
Scientist Ricardo Martinez Garcia, from São Paulo State University (UNESP), is participating in international research on Sudan. The study assesses the desertification process in the Arab country.
Brazilian mining company Vale signed Memoranda of Understanding with partners in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. They will study the joint development of hubs aimed at low-carbon products for the steel industry.
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Brazilian miner Vale said on Tuesday (31) it has signed agreements with local authorities and clients to look at developing industrial complexes, or mega hubs, in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. These complexes will be focused on low-carbon steelmaking products such as hot briquetted iron (HBI) to supply both local and foreign markets.
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Iraq recorded a 70.6% increase in crude oil exports in the first nine months of 2022 compared to the same period last year. Revenue from January to September reached USD 90.3 billion. The monthly average was USD 10.04 billion.
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Sudan was the object of study of scientists trying to understand how the desertification process takes place. Ricardo Martinez Garcia, now a professor at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the State University of São Paulo (Unesp) and associated researcher at ICTP-SAIFR is one of the researchers of a study started by Michiel P. Veldhuis of the Leiden University in the Netherlands and published on scientific journal Ecography. Now at Unesp, Garcia continues to work in similar topics. ICTP-SAIFR is the South American branch of the international center for physics.
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The Children of the Ghetto trilogy by Lebanese author Elias Khoury has been translated from Arabic into Portuguese for the first time. The first title of the trilogy, My Name is Adam, contains an extensive glossary of terms and references at the end of the book. The cover and first page photographs were taken by Laura Di Pietro, editor-in-chief of Tabla. The book is translated by Safa Jubran, and graphic design is by Marcelo Pereira.
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As part of measures to ensure macroeconomic stability and provide sustainable and thorough growth to Egypt, the country’s Central Bank announced this Thursday (27) the adoption of a floating exchange system for the Egyptian pound to foreign currencies. The main goal is for rates to reflect the forces of supply and demand. The Central Bank aims at price stability.
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After two years of the pandemic, with 81% of the population vaccinated, life has returned to the old normal in Brazil in the second half of 2022. Stores reopened, a large part of Brazilians returned to in-person work, smiles reappeared from behind the masks. But at least one habit has changed forever: How to buy. It is estimated that due to the confinement, which was stronger and stricter in the first year of the COVID-19, in 2020, almost 20 million Brazilians started buying online, which accounts for 10% of the population.
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This Thursday morning (27), Rotary launched the Light for the Future [Luz para o Futuro] project at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) headquarters in São Paulo, which aims to install photovoltaic panels in schools in Lebanon. The Arab country is facing an energy crisis and only has one to two hours of electrical power daily. The initiative’s goal in Brazil is to raise USD 150,000 to help the first ten schools.
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The specialty coffee market in the UAE is booming, said ambassador Eliana Zugaib, chargée d’affaires at the Brazilian Embassy of Brazil in Abu Dhabi. The diplomat accompanied the Brazilian Coffee Week that wrapped up on Tuesday (25). The event was organized by the Embassy of Brazil in Abu Dhabi and the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC).
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The United Nations (UN) warned this Thursday (27) current international policies are leading the Earth to a 2.8° C warming by the end of the century. UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the world is headed for catastrophe.
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