Posted on April 8, 2008 by Colin Brayton
The morning newswire of Exame (Editora Abril, Brazil) suffers from a defect common to a lot of online news portals here: Flash-powered roll-down ads that fail to roll back up, obscuring your view of the headlines if you happen to prefer the Firefox browser. The proportion of non-events — “[São Paulo governor] Serra has not [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2008 by Colin Brayton
“Cost of living in São Paulo rises 0.45% in March”: New World Lusophone Bloomberg this morning.
The Jornal da Cidade de Bauru in (think of it as) “upstate” São Paulo reports:
A partir de 2 de junho, as operadoras de canais de TV por assinatura não poderão mais cobrar pelo ponto adicional para a recepção do sinal. [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2008 by Colin Brayton
Among other things, increased disclosure is a boon to publishers, such as São Paulo’s Official Diary (above, occupancy and booking figures for two convention facilities, from SPTur’s 2007 Management Report) — and manufacturers of reading eyeglasses needed to squint at all that fine, fine print.
Juntas poderão decidir sobre balanços de limitadas: Valor reports on [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2008 by Colin Brayton
Caption: “City councilmember arrested is accused of using the Batman symbol in areas that pay for ’security’ (Photo: TV Globo archives).” Source: G1/Globo (Brazil).
Justiça acusa deputado Natalino de integrar grupo de milícia: A member of the state assembly, the brother of a Rio de Janeiro city lawmaker accused of heading “militia” groups in the Western [...]
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