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Visa Waiver for Pakistani Fans Travelling for the World Cup

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It was recently reported from Islamabad that almost 500 fans are travelling from Pakistan to Brazil in order to attend one of the largest footballing events in the history of the sport.   The Brazilian ambassador, Alfredo Leoni, came out in the open and spoke about how Pakistanis are travelling from different parts of the […]

Bacray Sagna praises Jack Wilshere’s performance in the International friendly – football news

Bacray Sagna praises Jack Wilshere’s performance in the International friendly – football news Bacray Sagna praised his Arsenal’s teammate, Jack Wilshere, after he gave his man of the match performance at the Wembley stadium against Brazil. The English youngster, who was ruled out of football for whole last season due to injuries, displayed tremendous football […]

Neymar: Bayern switch a possibility

The Brazil international expressed his desire to play in Europe in the not too distant future. Santos star striker Neymar has said he has the ambition to play for Bayern Munich in the near future. Der FCB came in the limelight after Pep Guardiola’s appointment at the German club. The attacker claimed that he is […]

United Kingdom’s education ranks 6th in global ranking: Report

A global league table published by education firm Pearson declared the United Kingdom’s education system as ranked sixth best in the developed world. The first and second places are taken by Finland and South Korea.   According to the media reports, the rankings combine international test results and data such as graduation rates between 2006 […]

Public telephones in Sao Paulo

In the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, a project design telephone booths. The purpose was that they were more visible to the people who used more. The project involved one hundred artists who contributed their designs.

Mozilla introduces new Firefox OS, potential of going forward on new strategy

Mozilla is going after the smartphone market unlike other web browser-making companies. Though it has a prominent presence in the mobile computing environment, it still felt the need of its own operating system. Recently the company announced its own Firefox OS that runs all applications on HTML 5. The smartphone market is already fighting tooth […]

WB approves US $300 million Development Policy Loan for Brazil

WASHINGTON, August 30th 2012 – Up to 16 million inhabitants of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil will benefit from a US$300 million Development Policy Loan (DPL) approved today by The World Bank Board of Directors. The Rio State Development Policy Loan lll will improve the State’s financial and tax administrations, as well as […]

Amazon formally enters Brazil’s local market for e-books and Kindles – Part 1

The largest e-commerce website already operates indirectly in Brazil but the formal entry is more difficult with direct competition from the likes of MercadoLibre Amazon.com, the largest book sellers in the world, were inspired by the great Amazon river and the surrounding forest in Brazil. And Jeff Bezos took the company to dazzling heights were […]

Amazon formally enters Brazil’s local market for e-books and Kindles – Part 2

“Amazon is looking at Brazil as a future growth market,” said S&P Capital IQ analyst Michael Souers. “But the way of doing business in Brazil is different than here. There are complications, delays.” MercadoLibre, whose literal meaning is FreeMarket, has the benefit of being the first entrant in the market. It covers almost 550 million […]

USA provided visas to one million Chinese in 2012 alone

The US consulates in China in 2012 alone have provided visas to about one million Chinese so far while the number is still counting with about five months of the year still to go. According to a press brief released by the US department of State, “Consular Officers at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and […]

Mireya Belmonte and Charles Gipson Houchin pocket gold medals – Maria Lenk Trophy

Mireya Belmonte and Charles Gipson Houchin pocket gold medals – Maria Lenk Trophy Mireya Belmonte and Charles Gipson Houchin pocketed gold medal of the 400m freestyle in Women and Men’s category on day five of the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Belmonte stayed prominently ahead of her challengers in the mediocre distance […]

Fabiola Molina and Thiago Pereira capture gold medals – Maria Lenk Trophy

Fabiola Molina and Thiago Pereira capture gold medals – Maria Lenk Trophy Fabiola Pulga Molina and Thiago Machado Pereira captured gold medal of the 100m backstroke in Women and Men’s category on fifth day of the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Molina stunned the crowd by winning gold medal of the double […]

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