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...“We are losing a historic opportunity,” said Luis Afonso dos Santos Senna, professor of transport economics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and a former head of ANTT....
...“It speaks to the youth; it’s the energy, the R&B tempo and the happy vibe....
...Upholding an earlier court decision, the federal judge in Santos presiding over the case against Neymar ordered him to repay about R$63.6m in taxes he allegedly avoided, or a total of R$192.8m including...
...For the year to March 2013, the group reported a 16 per cent fall in net income from the previous year to R$86.3m....
...“The port of Santos [in southeastern São Paulo state] is linked to the centre of Brazil’s economy, and the port in São Luís [in northeastern Maranhão state] is linked directly by rail to Carajás, a mining...
...“To operate in Brazil’s cards business you really need scale and a lot of investment, and Citibank has a relatively small presence here,” said Luis Miguel Santacreu at Austin Asis, a banking sector consultancy...
...On a busy day in Brazil’s main port of Santos at the height of the soyabean harvest, the relentless convoy of grain trucks is forced to stop suddenly....
...Next in line was São Paulo, with R$225m, up 15 per cent, and Santos, based in the nearby port city of the same name, with R$189m, up 62 per cent....
...It had total assets of about R$6.74bn ($3.61bn) at the end of last year, up nearly 50 per cent from a year before....
...Today, he earns R$1m a month, de Souza said, one-fifth of which comes from Santos and the rest from sponsorship deals....
...Luis Alfonso Hoyos, Colombia’s ambassador to the OAS, supplied video and photographic evidence to support claims of an “active and growing presence” of terrorist groups on the Venezuelan side of the border...
...But they rallied by 8 per cent in early trading on Thursday after its owner, Silvio Santos, a high-profile media magnate, said he would sell assets to repay an emergency loan of R$2.5bn from Brazil’s credit...
...Of R$7.9bn (US$4.6bn) of planned spending on railways between 2007 and 2010, just R$1.1bn had been completed by the end of last year. On waterways, of a planned R$700m, just R$8.3m had been completed....
...This is in addition to 80 per cent of the new sponsorship deals Ronaldo’s presence helped Corinthians cut for their football kit – branding on shoulders at R$4m, shorts at R$4.5m and sleeves at R$6.2m....
...He bought one combine harvester in 2001 for R$220,000 and another in 2003 for R$280,000....
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