Plan to Clean Rio Beaches by 2014: Daily
Rio State government and the City Hall have announced that Ipanema will be the first beach to be cleaned-up as...
March 6, 2012Topic
São Conrado
Rio Carnival in Luxury Penthouse Style
Rio offers some of the best options in luxury living for those with the means, and this Carnival, more jet-setters...
February 14, 2012
Plans to Demolish Matinha Favela: Daily
Unsafe hill-side construction led to plans to demolish Matinha, a small São Conrado favela, which sits next to the recently...
November 24, 2011
Police to Pacify Rocinha and Vidigal Favelas
Last week a local media R7 reported that Rocinha, considered the largest favela in Brazil, is next in line to...
November 8, 2011
Rio’s Beautiful Rock: Pedra Bonita
Astonishingly beautiful and relatively unknown, Pedra Bonita is a hidden gem, towering above the Forest of Tijuca National Park and...
June 21, 2011
São Conrado: Luxury Living
By Tim Anderson, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – São Conrado is an upmarket suburb in Zona Sul (South...
March 1, 2011Hostages Taken at Luxury Hotel in Rio
By Sibel Tinar, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – A violent confrontation between drug traffickers and the police led to...
August 21, 2010
Beaches Out West
By Lindsay Spratt, Sub Editor [caption id="attachment_12963" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Prainha, photo by Lindsay Spratt."][/caption] RIO DE JANEIRO - Although the...
October 20, 2009