Bolivia´s request to enter Mercosur "strengthens" the importance of the South American trade bloc, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said.
The world´s supply surplus may triple this year as bumper harvests in India and Brazil outstrip demand, the International Sugar Organization said.
Spanish telecommunications group Telefonica has announced plans to invest seven billion dollars in Brazil over the next four years.
Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company, will introduce in Brasília (the capital of Brazil) the Petrobras Cultural Program (PPC), for public selection of projects for sponsorship.
Brazil and Russia are the favorite stock markets among investors in developing economies, according to a survey by Merrill Lynch & Co. India is the least preferred.
Brazilian trade negotiators will travel to the United States and India this week to try to revive the stalled Doha round of global trade talks, the country’s chief trade representative said.
The Brazilian Ministry of Health does not have the capacity to reach its goal of distributing one billion condoms annually as part of a campaign to fight the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in the country, Mariangela Simao, coordinator of the National Program to Combat HIV/AIDS, said in a statement.
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil´s third-biggest soybean-producing state, is seeking financing for irrigation projects to help avert crop losses during summer droughts, Governor Yeda Crusius said.
Brazil´s stocks and currency fell on Tuesday on concern a slump in the price of oil and other commodities may reduce investment flows to Latin America´s largest economy.
In a ranking by journalists at the Lonely Planet travel guide, Brazil featured among the best international tourist destinations for 2007. The list includes eleven countries and is headed by China.
A Brazilian government plan set to go into effect this year will bring large-scale logging deep into the heart of the Amazon rain forest for the first time, in a calculated gamble that new monitoring efforts can offset any danger of increased devastation.
The body of a 75-year-old woman has been found in the rubble of a construction site which collapsed on Friday in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Rescuers are looking for six other people feared buried in a crater left by the collapse of the metro station.
Rio de Janeiro State Legislative Assembly (Alerj) announced on Thursday that it will honor Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with its best award -- the Tiradentes Medal.
The mystery surrounding ball lightning is all but over, thanks to a Brazilian research team.
A Brazilian general took command of U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti on Thursday and said he plans no change in the strategy to stabilize the troubled Caribbean nation.
The waves of gang crime which have spread fear among millions of ordinary people across Brazil´s main cities are to face a major crackdown by the authorities, the country´s government said Wednesday.
Minas Gerais state government halted production at Mineracao Rio Pomba Cataguases´ bauxite mine at Mirai after a rejects dam burst early on Wednesday, said a state environmental agency (Feam) spokesman.
Brazil has never made so many cars: 2.61 million last year, up 3.1% over 2005, according to a release Wednesday in São Paulo from the Association of Automobile manufacturers, Anfavea.
Brazil´s Aracruz, the world´s top producer of bleached eucalyptus pulp, said on Wednesday fourth-quarter profit surged 65 percent on rising pulp prices and record sales volumes.
Dutch mail company TNT NV said on Wednesday it had acquired Brazilian firm Expresso Mercurio.
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