brazil makes new tax cuts to revive economy
21 May 2012, 8:58 pm
BRASILIA (Reuters) - brazil's government on Monday unveiled a new round of temporary tax cuts worth about $1 billion to boost the struggling automotive sector and other industries in its latest attempt to restore a lost economic boom. Investor jitters about the economy at home and abroad helped send brazil's currency to its weakest closing level in three years on Monday. But Finance Minister ...

Michael Jackson wanted to marry me: brazil's Xuxa
21 May 2012, 8:21 pm
brazil's children's television show host Xuxa has revealed that the late Michael Jackson wanted to marry her and that she had been sexually abused as a child.

brazil fights illegal logging to protect Amazon natives
21 May 2012, 7:57 pm
brazil said Monday it was working hard to stop illegal logging in Amazon rainforest land inhabited by the ethnic Awa people, a group said to be threatened with extinction.

brazil Stimulates Banks to Boost Car Lending as Sales Slump
21 May 2012, 5:22 pm
brazil eased reserve requirements on car loans and cut taxes on consumer borrowing in a bid to boost slumping vehicle sales and prevent growth in Latin America’s biggest economy from stalling.

brazil Posts $761 Million Trade Surplus For May 14-20
21 May 2012, 2:06 pm
brazil posted a $761 million trade surplus in the third week of May, but import growth continues to outpace gains made by exports so far this year, the Trade and Development Ministry said Monday.

brazil's president says nation doubled high-speed net connections in a year
21 May 2012, 12:41 pm
brazil's president says the nation has nearly doubled its high-speed internet connections in the past year.

India Ink: For India and brazil, a Rare Tie-up in Cinema
21 May 2012, 4:54 am
India's independent film director Anurag Kashyap and Beatriz Seigner of brazil hope to strengthen ties between the two countries by co-producing a film.

brazil's Truth Commission May Find Inconvenient Answers
20 May 2012, 1:59 am
Unlike countries such as Argentina and Uruguay, brazil has never prosecuted anyone for human-rights offenses carried out during its military dictatorship, which lasted from 1964 to 1985.

Key Ingredient to Tech Success in brazil Is In The Silicon Valley
18 May 2012, 5:09 pm
brazil is being described as the "next hot tech market" and several VCs are getting aggressive in "the country of the future." Recently, The??New York Times??announced that ??Redpoint and BV Capital??have begun a new venture capital firm called Redpoint eVentures based in S??o Paulo, brazil. The??Samwer brothers,??through Rocket Internet, are also raising the stakes and ...

Troubled brazil economy shrinks again in March
18 May 2012, 3:06 pm
Economic activity in brazil fell for the third straight month in March, a surprisingly weak performance that may lead the central bank to slash its benchmark interest rate to all-time lows and prompt further ...