Sao Paulo, Brazil Travel News

Leading South American guitarist Andre Geraissati yesterday said he planned to perform with the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra next year.

Sofitel Luxury Hotels has this week announced a new management contract with Carrasco Nobile S/A, a consortium managed by the Spanish group Codere, to manage the Casino Carrasco Hotel in Montevideo which will become the Sofitel Montevideo Casino Carrasco and Spa.

The University of Western Ontario has announced the reappointment of Ted Hewitt as Vice-President for the term July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2015.

Last Summer I got the chance to visit several Universities while traveling around Brasil.

SAO PAULO, Brazil, November 6, 2009 Dassault Systemes , a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management solutions, will be participating in the France-Brazil Innovation Forum, an event that celebrates the closing of the Year of France in Brazil to be held November 10, 2009, in Sao Paulo.

A global benchmark survey of leading airport hubs has found that online booking among passengers using the Brazilian gateway, Sao Paulo Guarulhos, has risen almost 50% over the last twelve months, it was announced at the ALTA Airline Leaders' Forum in Cartagena, Colombia.

Brazil has many vibrant cities including Sao Paulo and Salvador. Yet, for me, the best city in all of South America is Rio de Janeiro.

NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of digital map, traffic and location data for in-vehicle, portable, wireless and enterprise solutions, announced today at Futurecom 2009 that it has reached a major pedestrian milestone of one hundred cities for its NAVTEQ Discover Cities product including coverage for Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Summary: A record of the biggest sizes of calculations on prime numbers reached so far.

By taking on Honduras as a foreign policy priority, Brazil is expressing a powerful Latin American consensus.

President Obama's speech to the United Nations has been called naive and even "post-American." It was something else, as well: the most extravagant excursion into self-worship we have yet seen in an American leader.

Sao Paulo,Brazil - VOA News -6 September 2009: -- If you travel by bus in Sao Paulo, Brazil these days your vehicle may be powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

SAO PAULO: South American presidents are expected to slam a US plan to use military bases in Colombia when they gather for a summit in Argentina at the end of the week specifically to discuss the issue.

VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports: According to a report in the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, Brazil's Defense Minister, Nelson Jobim said he is satisfied with the Colombian government's explanation for the permission and has confirmed that Colombia has offered guarantees that the use of the military bases will be strictly limited ...

TAM and Amadeus announced yesterday in Sao Paulo a 10-year technology partnership to replace multiple legacy applications currently in use by the airline with a single integrated platform based on Amadeus's Altea Customer Management Solution.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon says he supports the idea of a free trade agreement between Brazil and Mexico, the two biggest economies in Latin America.

The exhibition, curated by Chico Lowndes, spans Guy Bourdin's career from the 1950s through the early 1990s.

A scientific researcher works with embryonic stem cells from in vitro fertilization at the University of Sao Paulo's human genome centre in Brazil.

In a Board of Directors meeting held at TAM's headquarters today in Sao Paulo, resignation letters were received from board members Pedro Pullen Parente and Adalberto de Moraes Schettert.

Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and several local government and business leaders will travel to South America next week.