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...Chongqing Zhifei Biological Products is listed in Shenzhen, focusing on vaccine R&D and sales....
...“Who R U?” and the prickly political polemic “6 Summers” lurched with low-slung bass grooves....
...“The total renovation of the museum would have cost R$100m. Two politicians with R$51m [each] in their suitcases could easily have paid that,” said one angry voter on WhatsApp....
...Since the fire, president Michel Temer has committed R$25m for fire prevention in the nation’s museums....
...In their plea bargain, JBS executives also taped the PSDB’s national leader and former presidential candidate, Senator Aécio Neves, asking for R$2m....
...The local robusta price hit a record of almost R$570 a kilogramme last November, up more than 50 per cent since the start of 2016, although it has since dropped back below R$440 on speculation about imports...
...R Vijayaraghavan, San Jose, CA, US A woman ran for the US presidency in 1872 “Victoria Woodhull was nominated to run for president by the Equal Rights party in the 1872 race against Horace Greeley for...
...said José Guimarães, leader of the government in the lower house of congress....
...While OAS installed the kitchen, a large team from Odebrecht, Brazil`s biggest construction company that is also heavily implicated in the Petrobras scandal, completed a wider renovation together with José...
...Letter in response to this editorial: S-I-M-P-L-E R-E-A-L-L-Y / From Jonathan P Kahn...
...The detention of Mr Lula da Silva, once so popular inside and outside Brazil that President Barack Obama called him “the man”, came a day after the country that was a few years ago one of the world`s fastest...
...Others include the treasurer of Ms Rousseff`s PT, João Vaccari Neto, and the former chief of staff of ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, José Dirceu....
...In April, Petrobras, which has also been hit by a corruption scandal, announced a write-off of R$51bn in 2014....
...[This is] a historic date,” said José Roberto de Toledo, a columnist for newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, on Twitter....
...Headlines in Brazil this month have been filled with allegations of corruption involving Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras and the ruling coalition led by president Dilma Rousseff`s centre-left...
...Vocalist José James leads a posse of Blue Note label contemporaries and Polar Bear stand out in the fringe. MH lovesupremefestival.com Photograph: Getty...
...He said a sack of the green coconuts he sells now cost R$70 (US$31) compared with R$30 a few weeks ago....
...marking what would be one of the most valuable London office transactions since the start of the financial crisis. http://on.ft.com/YH3NV1 Judge seeks closure in Apple v Samsung The judge who oversaw a San Jose...
...The ban was later lifted after the three companies promised to invest R$20bn ($9.8bn) over the next two years....
...To be built at OSX´s shipyards, these will be leased to Brazil’s national oil company, Petrobras....
...“The rise of ‘class C’ [the lower middle class] is no longer the future of Brazil; it is now the reality,” says José Roberto Pacheco, director of control and investor relations at OdontoPrev....
...José de Jesús Méndez Vargas, known as El chango or “The Monkey Méndez” was detained at a federal roadblock in Aguascalientes, in Central Mexico....
...“Bottom-of-pyramid” sales were R$1.3bn of a total R$16bn revenue in Brazil in 2009, and grew at 27 per cent over 2008: twice the national average and four times the global rate....
...B-r-u-t-u-s. You know – the guy who killed Caesar. Caesar, the Roman emperor. Rome, the hit HBO show.” This is the conversation I overheard while on the beach in Punta del Este, Uruguay....
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