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Historic underinvestment, vast needs, and a rapidly improving business environment place Brazil at the forefront of global infrastructure opportunities. The Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce in New York will hold a roundtable updating the progress of the PPI (Investment Partnerships Program) in granting public-private partnerships to meet the country’s needs. The opening speech will be delivered…

The Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza announced that it will start selling physical books online for pickup at its network of nearly 1,000 stores, leveraging its national presence to compete with traditional booksellers and Amazon.com Inc. This move highlights Magazine Luiza’s eagerness to pose a direct challenge to the online retailer Amazon, which began operations in…

Kovi is a Brazilian startup entering the urban mobility market by offering car rentals through its app. Compared to competitors, Kovi collaborates with automakers and small rental companies to rent vehicles to last-mile delivery drivers. Automakers rent cars to Kovi at economical prices, and then the company resells them to users. “We are in the…

The athlete was born in the city of Afogados da Ingazeira, in Pernambuco, on January 7, 1984. From a young age, she showed her interest in sports. She began her sports career as a swimmer at the Clube Náutico Capibaribe in Recife, where she moved at the age of eleven. Yane discovered her passion for…

W. H. Auden (1907-1973) was an English poet, literary critic, and playwright, who became a naturalized American. He was considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) was born in the city of York, England, on February 21, 1907. The son of a doctor, he showed an interest in…

Xenophanes (570 – 475 B.C.) was a philosopher, poet, and sage of Ancient Greece, one of the most important philosophers of the Eleatic school. Along with Parmenides and Zeno, he was later classified as a pre-Socratic philosopher, as Greek philosophy became centered around the figure of Socrates. Xenophanes, or Xenophanes of Colophon, was born in…

How will the world feed a global population of billions by the year 2050? This is one of the questions that the Department of Animal Sciences at Virginia Tech discussed with counterparts from the University of São Paulo. They met during a symposium earlier this year in Brazil on topics such as animal welfare and…

Farmers growing wheat around the world share a common fear: crops destroyed by a disease called wheat blast. The fungal disease first emerged in Brazil in 1985 and wiped out a third of Brazil’s wheat crop in 2009. It is now spreading. With funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, researchers at Kansas State University…