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Air Travel Growth Continues to be Driven by BRICS Members and South East Asia
Asia leads the world’s growth in air travel and holds seven out of the ten busiest inter-city routes. In addition to the BRIC markets, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Chile showed an impressive growth, according to analysis by the market intelligence
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Santander Committed to Brazil as Major Contributor to Bank’s Profits
Chairman Botin confirms the strategic importance of Santander Brazil, which accounts for the vast majority of the bank’s world-wide profits for the 1st quarter 2012. By Marco dos Santos The deepening crisis in Spain last week cast shadows over the financial
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HSBC Continues to Sell Non-Core Assets
HSBC is selling businesses in four South American countries as it carries on its plan of leaving what it regards as less promising markets. The deal is still subject to regulatory approval but HSBC has reported the sale of its
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Gold Becomes Peru’s Main Export Item in the First Quarter of 2012
Peruvian gold sales totalled 2.57 billion dollars in the first quarter of this year, making the commodity the country’s top export, the National Mining, Petroleum and Energy Society, SNMPE, announced. Total exports of gold soared 30% last year reaching 10.1bn
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Investing in São Paulo
Welcome to a world of opportunities! Exciting information about the state of São Paulo. There are a lot of bussiness opportunities in this well developed region of Brazil, from agriculture to high-end technology, this state boast the best conditions for
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Arabian World Construction Summit 2012
Date: 20 – 23 May 2012 Location: Westin Resort & Spa, Abu Dhabi Arabian World Construction Summit 2012 will be the definitive construction & infrastructure event in the Middle East and the only place to meet and hear from project owners
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The Transformation of Africa’s ICT Market
Event: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 9-11 May 2012 Africa holds exciting new business opportunities for international companies in many sectors, including in ICT (see below graphs and tables). Africa is on the brink of a major transformation. Over the last decade,
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WEF in Ethiopia: Shaping Africa’s Transformation
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 7 May 2012 – More than 700 leaders from business, government, civil society, academia, media and the arts from over 70 countries will meet at the 22nd World Economic Forum on Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 9
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More Phones Than People in Brazil
With the privatization in 1998, Brazil stopped being a country where the telephone was a privilege for the few. With over $ 235 billion of investments since then, the country is already has the world’s sixth largest telecommunications market. But
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Chow Tai Fook’s $2.8B H.K. IPO May Beat Prada
Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd. aims to raise as much as HK$22 billion ($2.8 billion) in what may be Hong Kong’s biggest initial public offering this year as luxury-goods companies tap growing affluence in China. The jewelry chain with revenue greater than Tiffany
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