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• BYD construction site in Brazil shut over ‘slavery-like’ conditions

  24-12-2024 12:30
  
  More than 160 Chinese nationals were found living in ‘degrading’ conditions and working excessive hoursBusiness live – latest updatesBrazilian authorities have halted the construction of a factory for the Chinese electric vehicle company BYD, after they found more than 160 Chinese nationals living in “slavery-like” conditions.The workers, based in a construction site in the north-eastern Brazilian state Bahia, were found to be labouring for excessive hours – s
  
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• ‘I don’t want a fight’: the Brazilian samba composer suing Adele for plagiarism

  24-12-2024 11:30
  
  Toninho Geraes has alleged in a lawsuit the British pop star plagiarised his track Mulheres in her Million Years Ago songThe British pop superstar Adele is not on tour in Brazil at the moment, but her absence was deeply regretted last week in Rio de Janeiro – not at a major festival like Rock in Rio or a mega-concert like Madonna’s at Copacabana Beach, but rather on a computer screen in a courtroom.The 16-time Grammy award winner had been expected to participate via video call in a c
  
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• Brazil’s mysterious ‘man of the hole’ is dead. Should his land remain protected?

  24-12-2024 09:00
  
  The death of Tanaru, the last member of an uncontacted group in the Amazon, raises questions about ethnic cleansing of Indigenous people, justice and the future of ancestral landsRead more in this seriesFor at least 26 years a man known as Tanaru lived alone in a small forest in the south-western Brazilian Amazon, moving around his territory, building several houses, planting crops and hunting. He also dug large, mysterious holes inside his homes.When a team from the National Indigenous Peoples
  
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