Tag: Sao Pablo

• Friday, November 22nd 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  China buying all Brazilian beef available; meat prices in Sao Paulo at record high

  

  Chinese demand is increasingly swallowing up Brazil's beef supply, pushing the country's cattle prices to a record high. China’s hunger for foreign meat has shot up as an outbreak of African swine fever has reduced its domestic pig population and has sent it looking for substitutes.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Brazil's truck makers anticipate a strong 8% growth prospect this year

  

  Brazil’s largest truck makers are expressing optimism again about the growth prospects for Latin America’s largest economy, even as the country continues to struggle to rebound from a deep recession that began in 2015.

• Saturday, October 5th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands/Sao Paulo air-link will be serviced with a Boeing 767, Argentine sources

  

  The Argentine media has revealed some additional details about the coming weekly airlink between the Falkland Islands and the South American continent, scheduled to begin “sometime in the second half of November”.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:41 UTC

  Chinese mining group plans to build an US$ 2.2bn complex in Brazil

  

  The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais has signed a protocol of intent with Sul Americana de Metais, a unit of Chinese miner Honbridge Holdings, for the construction of a 9.1 billion reais (US$ 2.2 billion) mining complex, newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo reported.

• Wednesday, September 4th 2019 - 09:17 UTC

  Restructuring Ford's Sao Paulo truck plant means sacking 1.300 workers and lowering salaries of the remaining

  

  Brazilian automaker CAOA reached an initial agreement to buy Ford Motor Co's plant in Sao Bernardo do Campo, the companies said on Tuesday, but CAOA could slash 1,300 jobs, according to the union representing the plant's workers.

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Falklands/Sao Paulo weekly air link with stopover at Cordoba, officially authorized by Argentina: Decree 602/2019

  

  The Argentine government made official the authorization for a second weekly flight between the South American continent and the Falklands Islands, this time to Sao Paulo, Brazil with a stopover once a month, on both ways in the city of Cordoba. This means all is ready for the inauguration.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Daytime smoke blackout in Sao Paulo blamed on Amazon rainforest fires

  

  Brazil's Amazon rainforest has seen a record number of fires this year, according to new data from the country's space research agency. The National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) said its satellite data showed an 83% increase on the same period in 2018.

• Monday, July 29th 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  
Brazilian police arrest suspect of gold shipment theft at Sao Paulo airport

  

  Brazilian police said on Sunday they arrested one person and are seeking an arrest warrant for another in connection with the theft of a gold shipment at São Paulo’s international airport on Jul 25.

• Friday, July 26th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Armed men steal US$ 40 million in precious metals from Brazil's busiest airport

  

  Armed men stole US$40 million of gold and other precious metals on Thursday from a Sao Paulo cargo terminal at South America's busiest airport, taking two hostages, police said. Several of the suspects arrived at the Guarulhos airport in a black pickup truck with livery resembling Brazil's federal police, according to security footage.

• Monday, June 10th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Brazil’s Lava Jato: Recordings questioned impartiality from Sergio Moro and prosecutors in sentencing Lula da Silva

  

  The Intercept Brazil investigation media published private conversations between public agents who participated in the Lava Jato operation in Brazil and questioned the impartiality of the investigation, which led to the imprisonment of former President Lula da Silva.