Sao Paulo (City- Brazil)

CORRECTED-Brazil's real posts biggest 1-day loss since Jan (at Reuters)

yahoo.com     3 hrs ago   1 related          

SAO PAULO, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Brazil's currency had its biggest one-day tumble in more than seven months on Thursday as investors sold off emerging market securities because of a global market rout. The real BRBY slumped...                    

Workers vote to extend strike at Brazil car plants (at Reuters)

yahoo.com     2 hrs ago          

SAO PAULO, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Workers at automobile plants in southern Brazil owned by Volkswagen AG (VOWG.DE: ) and Nissan Motor Co Ltd (7201.T: ) voted on Thursday to extend a strike now in its fourth day to push for a...                    

Brazilian Day festival parades through Pacific Beach

sdnews.com     23 hrs ago          

San Diegos large Brazilian community is transforming a small slice of Cass Street into Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia for the 1st annual Brazilian Day Festival Sunday, Sept. 7. Sept. 7 is Brazilian Independence...                    

TMAI AT BRAZIL'S FIRST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

phayul.com     yesterday          

The Federal University of Sao Paulo's School of Medicine (UNIFESP) and Sao Paulo based Palas Athena Association jointly organize the 'International Symposium on Traditional Medicine Contemplative Practices' on September...                    

Low-cost STB platform boosts Brazil's TV viewing

eetasia.com     yesterday          

Proview will be using ST's MPEG decoder technology in its new XPS-1000 digital terrestrial STB. The new STi7101 low-cost HDTV MPEG2 / H264 single chip video decoder will retail for about $180, bringing affordable digital...                    

IBI Announces Investment in Glycerin Plant (PR Newswire)

yahoo.com     yesterday          

Integrated Biodiesel Industries, Ltd announced today an investment of US$ 300,000 as part of a larger US$ 1 million capitalization in a glycerin processing plant in Brazil. The plant is located in the city of Jau, 250 km...                    

Brazil gov. wants $1.8B Rio-Sao Paulo highway

iht.com     Sep 3, 2008   2 related          

Sao Paulo Gov. Jose Serra is proposing the construction of a new 3.1 billion real (US$1.8 billion) highway linking Brazil's two biggest cities. The new road could be ready for bidding in two years. It would run parallel...                    

Brazil’s Largest Metropolis Takes On the Pollution Challenge

alternative-energy-news.info     Sep 3, 2008          

Brazil's Sao Paulo is the largest city in size and population. With this eminence of being the richest and the most populous comes the other not so flattering tag of also being one of the worst polluted. We don't have to...                    

Brazilian official considers int'l financial crisis not over

xinhuanet.com     Sep 3, 2008   1 related          

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Central Bank president Henrique Meirelles said on Tuesday that the international financial crisis caused by the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States has not come to an...                    

Brazil's spy chiefs suspended in bugging scandal (AFP)

yahoo.com     Sep 2, 2008   39 related          

SAO PAULO (AFP) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has suspended the leadership of the country's intelligence service after the spy agency was accused of bugging the supreme court chief's telephone. Lula on...                    

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