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  • Four mn jobs created in two years Brazilian president

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has said that 4.13 million full jobs have been created since the beginning of her administration in January 2011. In her weekly radio show "Breakfast with the President", Rousseff said Monday the achievement was much more significant against the backdrop of the global economic woes, which had seen many developed countries struggling with rising ...

  • Spain not yet on Brazils level Iniesta

    Andres Iniesta says Spain cannot yet claim to be on the same pedestal as Brazil in football's international hierarchy. The Barcelona midfielder has been a key member of a Spain team that has won the two European Championships and the 2010 World Cup. In an interview with Brazilian daily O Globo, Iniesta said Brazil had maintained a unique aura owing to the country's rich football history. "To ...

  • Paraguay becomes South Americas used car paradise

    Paraguay has become the main destination in South America for used cars from Japan, the US and other countries, thanks to new regulations aimed at making it easier to import automobiles so low-income consumers can purchase vehicles. Used cars are all the rage in Paraguay, where vehicles that have been shipped from thousands of kilometers away are put to use as soon as they are repaired and made ...

  • Telefonica MasterCard to launch first mobile money service in Brazil

    Online journal MobilePaymentsToday reports that Telefonica (Vivo), the fixed and mobile operator owned by Telefonica of Spain, has established a Brazilian joint venture with MasterCard Worldwide to launch Brazil’s first mobile payment service. Dubbed 'Zuum', the new service will launch in five cities in the state of Sao Paulo and in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. It will be ...

  • Credit Crazy Brazil Is Heading forTrouble

    Brazil faced a minor bank run over the weekend sparked by false rumors over the country's social security fund, but one analyst told CNBC on Tuesday that the real issue facing the country's banking system is a runaway credit boom. Neal Shearing, chief emerging markets economist at macro-economic research firm Capital Economics told CNBC that the massive increase in credit in Brazil ...

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Kagemusha [Blu-Ray]

Kagemusha [Blu-Ray]

By 1980, as he was entering the fifth decade of his career as a film director, Akira Kurosawa was probably best known outside of his native Japan for his samurai films, including Seven Samurai (1954), The Hidden Fortress (1958), Yojimbo (1961), and Sanjuro (1962). W ... ...

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  • PMs South America trip turns focus from turmoil to trade

    Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads to Peru and then to Colombia for trade talks this week - after he speaks to his caucus about a growing Senate expense scandal that claimed his chief of staff over the weekend. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...

  • HRT announces drilling of well 1-HRT-11-AM concluded

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  • Brazil Lagging in Fight against Human Trafficking

    RIO DE JANEIRO, May 20 2013 (IPS) - In contravention of international law, in Brazil trafficking in human beings remains invisible and unpunished, which encourages the practice of trafficking for sexual exploitation, forced labour, illegal adoption and the trade in human organs, according to ...

  • Biofuels a boon for Brazils rural poor but obstacles remain elsewhere | Paige McClanahan

    Brazil , a country that is home to both a sizeable biofuels industry and about 4.1m small-scale family farms. But while some of the country's biofuels policies have fallen short, others have proved a boon to the rural poor. Smallholder farmers have seen their incomes rise thanks to the introduction of more progressive standards and new rules on contract negotiations."The numbers show ...

  • Brazil main opposition party elects a new leader and 2014 presidential hopeful

    Brazilian opposition unified over the weekend behind Aecio Neves who was elected by a landslide president of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, PSDB. His naming opens the way for his candidacy to the 2014 presidential election, when President Dilma Rousseff will be bidding for another four ...

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