Booting up Brazil
Brazil exploits potential as web use spreads
2010. March 11. 8:55
Brazil tribes let workers leave [BBC NEWS] Jul. 26. Indigenous people protesting against a hydro-electric plant in the Brazilian Amazon allow most workers to leave the site. Menezes accepts Brazil coach job [BBC NEWS] Jul. 24. Corinthians boss Mano Menezes agrees to become Brazil's new national team coach. Pearson takes£326m stake in Brazil education group [Telegraph.co.uk] Jul. 22. Pearson, the education and publishing group that owns The Financial Times, has bought part of a Brazilian education company for 888m reais (£326m). Dead penguins washed up in Brazil [BBC NEWS] Jul. 21. Scientists in Brazil are worried after hundreds of penguins are washed up dead on the country's beaches. Brazil leader seeks spanking ban [BBC NEWS] Jul. 15. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sends to Congress a bill proposing a ban on corporal punishment. World Cup 2010: 'real chance' of goal-line technology at Brazil 2014 [Telegraph.co.uk] Jul. 9. Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke has given the strongest indication yet that goal-line technology could be brought into the game. Brazil football star surrenders [BBC NEWS] Jul. 8. Footballer Bruno Fernandes surrenders to Brazilian police after an arrest warrant over his ex-lover's disappearance is issued. World Cup 2010: Brazil President turns cheerleader for grieving nation [Telegraph.co.uk] Jul. 5. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told his countrymen to forget this year's World Cup. Dunga sacked as Brazil head coach [BBC NEWS] Jul. 4. Dunga is sacked as Brazil's coach after the side's quarter-final exit from the World Cup. Brazil reels [BBC NEWS] Jul. 3. Fans look to 2014 for payback after team exits Cup Paris Hilton arrested for 'smoking marijuana' during Brazil Holland game [Telegraph.co.uk] Jul. 2. Paris Hilton has been arrested in South Africa for allegedly smoking marijuana during the Brazil-Holland match. World Cup 2010: Holland's Giovanni van Bronckhorst ready to break Brazil hoodoo [Telegraph.co.uk] Jul. 1. Giovanni van Bronckhorst has warned Brazil that Holland are ready to break their World Cup stranglehold over them.
