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...At a recent conference Germany’s K+S said a new floor price of $500 a tonne was possible — half the current spot price but double the average price of the previous decade....
...She began working part time at the age of 17 in the family store in Franca, a shoemaking city in São Paulo state, and built the business into one of Latin America’s retail powerhouses....
...Additional reporting by Gideon Long in Bogotá and Carolina Pulice in São Paulo...
..., Zurich, Switzerland, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Chicago and Elk Grove, Illinois, in the U.S....
...“Piedmont is the Burgundy of Italy,” says Greg St Clair, Italian wine buyer for K&L Wine Merchants in San Francisco and Los Angeles....
...PotashCorp of Saskatchewan might have borne this in mind when it made what was described as a friendly “private proposal” to its listed rival K+S. This was swiftly rejected....
...Zero K, by Don DeLillo, Picador, RRP£16.99/Scribner, RRP$27 At 79, the American master surprises yet again with a dystopian take on our desire to preserve life beyond its sell-by date....
...Intriguingly, its low blocks and greenery have become reminiscent not so much of a US city but more of a Latin American quarter such as Jardins in São Paulo....
...With the Thai bid was disqualified, the other contenders are Ekaterinburg in Russia, Izmir in Turkey and São Paulo in Brazil....
...Brazil, an upper middle income country, is finally discovering the fortune that lies at the bottom of the pyramid, to borrow from the title of the late academic C.K....
...This makes him part of an exclusive club that includes William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Gabriel García Márquez …and Paulo Coelho....
He may be more Tom Lehrer than Cormac McCarthy – but the American singer-songrwriter is an effective chronicler of life on the Tex-Mex border
...Paulo Pong of Hong Kong’s Altaya Wines claims that “there are times when we pay to open bottles to taste before we purchase”....
...Clegg on mission to beef up Brazil links Nick Clegg will pledge to double British exports to Brazil by the end of this parliament as the deputy prime minister kicks off a trade trip to São Paulo on Tuesday...
...The Kraft bid is about Mumbai, about Johannesburg, about Mexico City and about São Paulo....
...However, N.K. Singh, a member of the upper house of parliament, believes the letter is part of an attempt “to move the goal posts”....
...Alexandre Ferraz, Sao Paulo, Brazil John Fortier: I think that there is little chance of an Obama Clinton ticket....
...“One thing is clear: we can’t go toward large reliance on private vehicle transport in this country,” says India’s Rajendra K....
...Meanwhile, business is waking up to the what C.K....
...“Civilisations have always been urbanised,” says K.E. Seetharam, a water and sanitation expert at the Asian Development Bank in Manila....
...Bloomsbury, which famously struck gold by publishing J.K. Rowling, already has Brazilian writers on its list....
...Thiago Luiz de Salles GomesSao Paulo, Brazil Mi más sentido homenaje a todas las víctimas del criminal atentado. R....
...Overhearing C.K....
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