Tag: Brazil
After the party: Rio wakes up to an Olympic hangover
When Brazil won the Olympics in 2009, its future looked bright. Seven years on, as the Games come to a close, Rio’s residents are counting the costs. The Olympic Games arecoming to a close, having demonstrated once again that Rio de Janeiro knows how to organise and promote big events. But after theparty, and the […]
Buildup to Rio 2016 part of a chaotic and shameful tradition of Olympic hosts | David Goldblatt
Preparations have often been chaotic but Rios buildup may be the most disorderly yet and no matter how special the Games a disaster of unprecedented proportions will have already happened The final days of preparation before the first modern Games in Athens in 1896 offered many of the tropes that still structure Olympic coverage a […]
Datalogic expands in South America and receives an award in Brazil for its local activities in the manufacturing industry
(PRWEB) December 19, 2014 Datalogic a global leader in Automatic Data Capture and Industrial Automation markets, and world-class producer of bar code readers, mobile computers, sensors, vision systems and laser marking equipment, received the Award Investe São Paulo, a prestigious prize which the State of São Paulo – together with Investe São Paulo, an investment […]
More Than Half of Adults in Brazil Are Overweight or Obese, According to Kantar Health
New York, NY (PRWEB) November 11, 2014 More than half of adults in Brazil are overweight or obese, with 34 percent having body mass index (BMI) levels that classify them as overweight (BMI of 25 kg/m2 or higher and BMI less than 30 kg/m2) and 18 percent having BMI levels that classify them as being […]
Liquid Investments Bullish on Brazil in Light of Rousseff Re-Election
(PRWEB) October 29, 2014 After a tight run off that at times was too close to call, Dilma Rousseff of the Workers Party (PT) was re-elected as Brazil’s 36th president. For those committed to Brazil in the long-term as one of the major geopolitical and geo-economic powers of the 21st century, the outlook is a […]