Tag: Rio do Janeiro

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 08:22 UTC

  Brazil investing to be in the top ten medals table for the Rio Games of 2016

  

  The host nation of the next Olympics had a mixed outing in London and is hoping that a surge in spending (700 million dollars) on athletes and facilities will ensure it makes the top 10 medals table in 2016 on home soil in Rio de Janeiro.

• Saturday, July 21st 2012 - 07:51 UTC

  Chavez confirms Dilma’s invitation to Mercosur meeting in Rio on July 31

  

  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said he had talked with his peer from Brazil Dilma Rousseff who confirmed the invitation to an extraordinary meeting of Mercosur next July 31 in Rio do Janeiro.

• Monday, July 2nd 2012 - 05:53 UTC

  Rio do Janeiro and its spectacular landscape declared world heritage site

  

  Rio do Janeiro's iconic landscape, marked by soaring granite facades that drop into the ocean and white-sand beaches that go on for miles, is now an official world heritage site.

• Monday, May 14th 2012 - 19:22 UTC

  Brazil military police occupies favelas in Rio to prevent full fledged drugs war

  

  Brazilian police was out in full force to occupy for an indefinite period a group of favelas (shanty towns) surrounding the ‘marvellous’ city of Rio do Janeiro following the killing of the state’s most wanted drug lord.

• Wednesday, April 25th 2012 - 06:58 UTC

  Rio do Janeiro admit a dengue epidemic: over 50.000 cases and 12 deaths

  

  The Brazilian ‘marvellous city’ of Rio do Janeiro officially declared it is suffering an epidemics emergency of the mosquito transmitted disease of dengue, following confirmed reports of over 50.000 cases so far this year, and 500 in the last week.

• Friday, January 6th 2012 - 06:45 UTC

  Heavy rains and mudslides threaten Rio do Janeiro; 35.000 residents displaced

  

  Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state placed emergency teams on maximum alert as heavy rains that have displaced 35.000 residents were forecast to continue, reviving fears of mudslides and flooding that killed about 900 people last year.

• Monday, November 14th 2011 - 06:32 UTC

  Brazilian troops take over Rio’s main favela without firing a shot

  

  Three thousand troops backed by helicopters and armoured vehicles occupied Rio de Janeiro's largest favela (slum) without firing a shot, the biggest step in the Brazilian city's bid to improve security and end the reign of drug gangs.

• Friday, September 30th 2011 - 01:36 UTC

  Rio do Janeiro top cop resigns over killing of high anti-corruption profile Judge

  

  The top commander of the military police in Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil has resigned amid a scandal that linked a top officer and other policemen to the assassination of a high-profile judge.

• Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 00:52 UTC

  Brazilian forces try to regain control of shanty town again lost to criminal gangs

  

  As Brazilians celebrate Wednesday September 7, Independence Day – a national holiday – Brazilian forces are engaged in trying to regain control of one of Brazil’s largest favelas.

• Friday, July 29th 2011 - 06:40 UTC

  World Cup set to boost Brazil’s GDP by 1.5%, estimates the country’s main bank

  

  The three-year build-up to the 2014 soccer World Cup is set to boost Brazil’s economy by 1.5% of GDP, according to Ilan Goldfajn, chief economist of the Itau Unibanco Holding, Latin America’s largest bank by market value.