Tag: Curitiba
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Ten Brazilian capital cities present intensive care units (ICU) occupancy rates of over 70%, according to the Fiocruz Covid-19 Observatory report released on Friday, November 28th. The sudden increase in new cases and deaths...
By Xiu Ying, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The wave of threats to schools and educational institutions has reached the largest public university in the Southern state of Paraná, UFPR. In the past few days, a threat of...
By Xiu Ying, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Researchers in Brazil are up in arms after President Jair Bolsonaro's government announced late last month that it had frozen 42 percent of the budget for the country's Science and...
By Richard Mann, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Twelve IT companies have recently threatened to leave Curitiba because of taxes on services (ISS) of five percent. City Hall is now responding and wants to lower taxes.
"We have companies...
By Jack Arnhold, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Roger Waters is returning to Rio de Janeiro this Wednesday, October 24th to play the iconic Maracanã Stadium, after last visiting the Cidade Maravilhosa for a performance of ‘The Wall’...
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Federal Police (PF) in Brazil launched Operation Hipster today (Wednesday, October 17th) from Curitiba, to arrest those responsible for the production and distribution of ecstasy in several states of...
By Jack Arnhold, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Fans of pure eighties pop music will be rubbing their hands together in glee as legendary London two-piece Erasure are playing a midnight show on Saturday, May 12th, at Rio’s...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – After almost 24 hours after the deadline to surrender to authorities, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva finally left the Metalworker Union building in São Bernardo do Campo,...
By Nelson Belen, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – According to the latest FipeZap Residential Rental Index, which tracks residential rental listings across Brazil’s fifteen largest cities, rental prices in November dropped for the sixth consecutive month, declining -0.14...
