The General Assembly first voted in December 2006 to work toward a treaty regulating the growing, multibillion dollar arms trade. Last December, the 192-member world body […]
Um polêmico projeto em tramitação na Assembleia Legislativa do Paraná dá mais uma mostra das divergências entre o governador Orlando Pessuti (PMDB) e seu antecessor, Roberto […]
Brazil’s plan to tap billions of barrels of offshore oil to spur economic development for the coming decade could be changed or even scrapped depending on […]
About 120 kilometres south of Port Stanley, capital of the Falkland Islands, a geological survey ship has been prospecting for oil in the one of the […]
While you can’t invest directly in water – yet – you can dip into the market through specialist funds and companies supplying water technologies Water, as […]
Internal market commissioner says harmonisation is necessary to guarantee consumer confidence. The European Commission proposed today (12 July) to harmonise schemes that member states have in […]
The Port of Paranagua, Brazil’s second-biggest soybean port, won an injunction overturning a suspension of its operations by the nation’s environmental agency. The port announced the […]
A Empresa Brasileira de Engenharia e Comércio S.A recorreu ao Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) contra a retenção do Imposto sobre Serviços de Qualquer Natureza (ISS) realizada […]
A Comissão de Defesa do Consumidor aprovou nesta quarta-feira (7) projeto que cria uma tarifa de 0,5% sobre o preço das passagens aéreas para subsidiar as […]
A Comissão de Finanças e Tributação rejeitou o Projeto de Lei 4077/08, do ex-deputado Juvenil, que isenta o contribuinte de depositar em juízo o valor dos […]
O Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis (Ibama) interditou hoje (8) o Porto de Paranaguá, no Paraná, maior exportador de grãos e […]
Empresas terão de informar os salários de executivos à Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM), de acordo com a Folha.com. A 8ª Turma do Tribunal Regional Federal […]
PRESS RELEASE – 6.29.2010 I – Fiscal results The non-financial public sector registered a primary surplus of R$1.4 billion in May, compared to R$1.1 billion registered […]
The Brazilian government doesn’t plan to slow record lending by the state development bank before the October presidential elections, said Nelson Barbosa, economic policy secretary at […]
The International Monetary Fund today called the government’s spending cuts into question, warning western countries that cutting budget deficits this year risked derailing economic recovery. In […]