2011年5月17日星期二

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Travel industry looks to China, India, Brazil for boom (AFP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 01:59 PM PDT

A group of Chinese tourists look for sourvenirs at the National Palace Museum in Taipei in 2009. China, India and Brazil are poised to fuel an explosion in international tourism in the coming years, showering money and jobs on countries ready for it, and trouble for those that aren't, industry leaders say.(AFP/File/Patrick Lin)AFP - China, India and Brazil are poised to fuel an explosion in international tourism in the coming years, showering money and jobs on countries ready for it, and trouble for those that aren't, industry leaders say.


Brazil judge convicts US pilots, suspends prison (AP)

Posted: 17 May 2011 12:00 PM PDT

AP - A Brazilian federal judge has convicted two American pilots for their role in an airline crash that killed 154 people, but ordered them to perform more than four years of community service in the U.S. instead of going to prison.

Brazil convicts U.S. pilots for 2006 crash (Reuters)

Posted: 17 May 2011 06:18 AM PDT

Reuters - A Brazilian court convicted two U.S. pilots of negligence for their role in the 2006 crash of a Brazilian airliner over the Amazon rain forest that killed 154 people, but the judge suspended their sentence.

French probe raises no urgent A330 safety concerns (Reuters)

Posted: 17 May 2011 04:28 AM PDT

The Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), one of two flight recorders from the Rio-Paris Air France flight which crashed in 2009, is carrying to be displayed for the media before a news conference at the BEA headquarters in Le Bourget, northern Paris, May 12, 2011. REUTERS/Charles PlatiauReuters - Preliminary readings of black box data recovered from a French Airbus plane that crashed in the Atlantic have eased any immediate concerns over the safety of A330 aircraft, but investigators warned on Tuesday against rushing to blame crew for the 2009 disaster.


Young Brazilian craftsmen rescue indigenous music (AFP)

Posted: 16 May 2011 11:09 PM PDT

Brazilian musician and luthier David Rocha poses with a small guitar in Sao Miguel Paulista, outskirts of Sao Paulo. Rocha makes musical instruments from wood he collects from garbage.(AFP/File/Nelson Almeida)AFP - In a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, the sounds of a fiddle merge with the buzz of an electric saw as apprentice craftsmen build Brazilian folk instruments -- often using wood found in city dumps.


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