Brazil

• Monday, September 30th 2013 - 16:29 UTC

  UK minister in Brazil at scientific research and education program signing ceremonies

  

  UK Minister of State for Latin America at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Hugo Swire is in Porto Alegre, south Brazil where he will attend the signing for a Memorandum of Understanding between the King’s College and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul on biological research.

• Saturday, September 28th 2013 - 05:08 UTC

  Petrobras makes ‘beautiful’ discovery and generates a new promising oil province

  

  Brazil's Petrobras and its Indian partners have made a “beautiful” oil discovery off Brazil's northeast coast, Sergipe-Alagoas basin, and it will produce a minimum 100,000 barrels of petroleum a day starting in 2018, the company's CEO said on Friday.

• Saturday, September 28th 2013 - 04:48 UTC

  Rousseff is running for re-election: turns on her twitter after three years of silence

  

  Breaking almost three years of silence from her official Twitter account, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday sent a series of tweets joking with a famous parody account and defending Brazil’s economy.

• Friday, September 27th 2013 - 21:40 UTC

  Jobs market remains strong in Brazil; unemployment down to 5.3% in August

  

  Brazil's jobless rate fell unexpectedly and salaries jumped in August from the previous month, government data showed this week. It was the second consecutive month-to-month drop in Brazil's jobless rate, which remains close to record lows.

• Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 06:39 UTC

  Brazilian industry forecasts higher GDP growth this year: 2.4%

  

  The Brazilian industrial federation on Wednesday upped its 2013 growth forecast to 1.4% from 1% and its GDP growth projection from 2% to 2.4%. But, despite the better data, the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) urged caution. “The improved economic outlook is no guarantee of a strong growth rate,” it said.

• Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 06:27 UTC

  Brazil’s “Clean record” bill shows a third of lawmakers have pending bills with Justice

  

  The recently approved Transparency Law has exposed that at least a third of the 594 Brazilian federal lawmakers have pending bills with criminal and administrative courts referred mainly to cases of corruption, which is expected to have an impact in the coming elections of next year when most of Congress will be renewed.

• Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 06:01 UTC

  Brazil’s main manufacturing lobby calls for urgent resumption of trade talks with EU

  

  The powerful manufacturers lobby, Sao Paulo’s Industry Federation, Fiesp believes a free trade agreement between Mercosur and the European Union is very much needed so that Latam’s largest economy climbs out from the “commercial isolation” in which it currently stands.

• Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 05:58 UTC

  Brazil’s development bank ‘overbooked’ needs support from the private sector

  

  The Brazilian state development bank BNDES is “overbooked” and needs the private sector to step up funding in investments, according to bank president Luciano Coutinho. Lending by BNDES and other public banks has increased six times faster than credit by non-state bank this year, as the government tries to fuel economic growth.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 07:46 UTC

  UK at Amazon biodiversity, sustainability and innovation seminar in Brazil

  

  The year 2013 is a special one for researches in the northern region of Brazil: the Ferreira Penna Scientific Station, research base of the Emílio Goeldi museum and research unit of the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology, completes 20 years of existence.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 05:40 UTC

  Rousseff implicitly accuses the US of breach of international law and calls for UN regulation of internet

  

  Addressing the United Nations General Assembly Brazilian President Dilma Roussef claimed that spying in the lives and affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and urged the United Nations to play a leading role in protecting Internet users from illegal interception of communications and data, and decried recent allegations of electronic information spying as “serious violations of human rights”.