Illegal loggers profit from Brazil’s carbon credit projects
World 10:52 08/07/2025PORTO VELHO, Brazil - Companies around the world have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into conservation projects in Brazil designed to protect the Amazon rainforest in return for carbon credits offsetting their emissions.
Brazilian firms eye expanded cooperation, investment in Vietnam
Vietnam News 17:49 07/07/2025Leaders of major Brazilian enterprises in food processing, biofuel, aerospace, and agriculture expressed strong interest in expanding business and investment ties with Vietnam during their meetings with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.
Vietnamese goods set to gain stronger foothold in South America
Vietnam News 13:22 07/07/2025Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s ongoing working trip to Brazil has opened new avenues for Vietnamese exports to penetrate the vast and growing South American market.
Vietnam, Brazil set sights on $15bn trade by 2030
Vietnam News 13:23 06/07/2025Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pledged to deepen the two countries’ cooperation in trade and other sectors, aiming to boost bilateral trade turnover to US$15 billion by 2030—underscoring the strategic significance of their partnership.
Hot-air balloon crash in Brazil kills eight people
World 10:42 22/06/2025SAO PAULO - Eight people were killed after a hot-air balloon carrying 21 passengers, including the pilot, crashed on Saturday in Brazil's southern state of Santa Catarina, state officials said.
Brazil, others to tap $1 billion industry decarbonisation program
World 13:13 15/06/2025LONDON - Brazil, Egypt, Mexico are among seven middle-income countries chosen by multilateral lender the Climate Investment Funds to tap a $1 billion program to cut emissions from their industrial sectors.
Hyper-realistic dolls fascinate and creep out Brazil
World 18:07 04/06/2025Gabi Matos looks the quintessential doting mum as she changes Ravi's nappy, cooing reassuringly as he stares up at her.
Brazil can no longer export poultry, meat to EU due to bird flu
World 12:28 20/05/2025BRUSSELS/PARIS -- Brazil, the world's largest poultry exporter and main poultry meat importer into the European Union, is no longer allowed to ship poultry and meat products to the EU due to the outbreak of bird flu, the European Commission said on Monday.
Brazil threatens Vietnam’s reign as ‘King’ of Robusta coffee
Economy 11:15 19/05/2025Vietnam’s position as the world’s top producer of Robusta coffee is under threat as Brazil edges closer to taking the lead within the next two to three years thanks to technological advancements and sustainable development policies.
Brazilian ritual root gets second life as potential anti-depressant
World 16:34 06/05/2025Long used in Indigenous Brazilian rituals, the jurema preta plant, which contains a potent psychedelic, is gaining ground as a potential treatment for depression.
Oldest-known ant preserved in 113 million-year-old Brazilian fossil
World 16:09 27/04/2025Scientists have identified the fossilized remains of the oldest-known ant - a winged insect with fearsome scythe-like jaws that lived about 113 million years ago during the age of dinosaurs and was preserved in limestone unearthed in northeastern Brazil.
Still reeling a year on, Brazil's Porto Alegre fears next flood
World 15:14 24/04/2025Armed with brushes and paint, volunteers touch up houses left standing after devastating floods last year that killed nearly 200 people and displaced half a million in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.
