Brazilian Forest Service General Director Tasso Azevedo demanded that French President Jacques Chirac propose concrete actions, such as satellite images to help fight deforestation, instead of proposing a UN agency to deal with climate problems.
A three-day international conference on the United Nations´ peacekeeping mission in Haiti began in Brasilia.
RealNetworks Inc., a maker of software for listening to music and playing games on the Internet, bought Brazilian gaming site Atrativa to further its global expansion.
Iguatemi Empresa de Shopping Centers SA, a Brazilian operator of commercial real estate, raised 477 million reais ($229 million) in an initial public offering.
Move over, free trade. The Bush administration has a new theme to court Latin American nations: ethanol.
"A street person was clubbed to death at dawn on Sunday," reads the Rio Body Count Web site, which counted 38 people dead and 25 wounded since Feb. 1, when the page launched.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva criticized Friday industrialized countries for turning a blind eye to global warming with insufficient efforts to cut the emission of greenhouse gases.
The United States has endorsed a one-year extension of the mandate for the U.N. stabilization force in Haiti, MINUSTAH, proposed by Brazil, which leads the multinational military force in the country.
Net Servicos de Comunicacao, Brazil´s biggest cable television provider, said on Friday its fourth-quarter profit tumbled 78 percent because of increased tax costs after the company incorporated some loss-making subsidiaries.
Brazil´s government plans to reduce the maximum toll that can be charged on 2,600 kilometers (1,615 miles) of highways that it plans to auction to non-state companies, Valor Economico newspaper reported.
Coffee exports from Brazil, the world´s biggest producer, fell 1 percent in January from the previous month as heavy rainfall in areas that produce Robusta beans hindered transportation to ports.
Brazil´s National Institute of Space Research (INPE) said on Wednesday that CBERS-2B, the third satellite to be launched in cooperation with China, is being assembled, integrated and tested.
Brazil´s central bank said on Thursday a recent pick-up in inflation will be temporary and its decision to trim the size of rate cuts will allow monetary easing to last longer.
Brazil´s real rose a third straight day on speculation international investors will seek the higher yields of local assets as interest rates in the U.S. may remain stable.
Brazilian telephone company Brasil Telecom Participacoes posted a fourth quarter profit of 267.8 million reais ($125.7 million) on Tuesday, as revenue rose modestly and costs fell 21 percent from the same period a year earlier.
Uniao de Bancos Brasileiros SA´s Pedro Moreira Salles, chief executive officer of Brazil´s No. 3 non-government bank, said he expects rising loan defaults to weigh on profits in 2007.
Brazilian companies pulled in revenues totaling 152.9 million U.S. dollars from exports to Iraq in 2006, against 49.9 million dollars in 2005, according to the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade on Monday.
Brazilian Minister of Mining and Energy Silas Rondeau said on Monday that the economic growth would result in power shortage to some extent, but there were no worries about severe blackouts.
Brazilian low-cost airline Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes said on Tuesday fourth-quarter profit fell by nearly half due to flight cancellations and delays that reduced its load factor.
Brazil´s Lula da Silva and Argentina´s Nestor Kirchner called on their Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez to avoid decisions that could "debilitate" democratic institutions in Venezuela reported the Brazilian press this Sunday.
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