New Year’s Eve Around Rio
By Sibel Tinar, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Millions, including a good portion of Cariocas and the...
December 28, 2010Topic
Rio
Réveillon 2011 in Copacabana
By Sibel Tinar, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As the world counts down to 2011, Rio is...
December 28, 2010
New Year’s Eve in Rio de Janeiro
By Sibel Tinar, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – New Year's Eve on the beach with over 2,000,000...
December 21, 2010
‘Fast Five’ and ‘Twilight’ Film in Rio
By Sibel Tinar, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As a city increasingly establishing itself as a prime...
November 23, 2010
Oil Investment in Brazil Continues
By Amy Skalmusky, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - With the recent Libra oil field discovery promising reserves of...
November 9, 2010
Amazonas Suffer Record Drought
By Anita Kirpalani, Contributing Reporter AMAZONAS, BRAZIL – On October 24th, the Rio Negro (Black River), one of the tributaries...
November 2, 2010
Samba Schools Line up for Carnival
By Vânia Maciel, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - For many, Carnival 2011 remains in the distant horizon, anticipated...
November 2, 2010
‘Rio!’ Travel App for Mobile Devices
By Doug Gray, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – With words like iPad, Kindle, and ‘apps’ now entrenched...
November 2, 2010
Rocinha Pacification Date Approaches
By Cecilie Hestbæk, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Government officials have provisionally slated the pacification peacekeeping mission in...
October 26, 2010