Researchers in Brazil will no longer be hit with big import duties on research equipment, following changes made to legislation last week. Previously, taxes were levied on imports regardless of whether they were bought or donated.

The world has not forgotten. Though it is eight years since the cold blooded massacre of 19 MST activists in Eldorado dos Carajás, in the state of Pará, the world continues to be baffled as to how nobody has yet been imprisoned for these crimes.

Speaking, Tuesday (16), in the Ministry of Foreign Relations, in Brasília, at a dinner in honor of South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reaffirmed Brazil's desire to have South Korea as a strategic partner in Asia.

In December, Brazilian stylist Caio Von Vogt will be exporting his first load of cloth produced from jute fiber, made from a plant grown in the north of Brazil for the production of food storage bags.