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They also seem to travel well. A woman in Brazil made a recording of Wiggles songs in Portuguese and sold 650,000 CDs. A man in Germany is trying to put together a group with the same name, outfits, philosophy and playlist, but in German. The Wiggles are looking into creating an Asian version of the band...
...brands such as SEAT and Skoda. And Piëch has added some boutique carmakers like Lamborghini and Bugatti to give the company, which also includes Audi, some additional cachet. Under Piëch, Volkswagen commands 51% of the car market in China and 25% of sales in Brazil. Perhaps most important is what Piëch hasn't done: made expensive mistakes, as BMW did in buying British car-maker Rover and as Mercedes committed by acquiring U.S. giant Chrysler...
...same time the AIDS rebels hit on another front. The tac's chairman, Zackie Achmat, went to Brazil to obtain a consignment of cheap, generic antiretroviral drugs for a program of treatment of 85 HIV/AIDS victims, adults and children, in the black township of Khayelitsha, outside of Cape Town. Achmat's shopping trip to Brazil was in open defiance of South Africa's patents law. "Potentially we face a civil action from the drugs companies," said Achmat last week. "We'll just have to wait and see." But public opinion is so firmly behind the activists that drugmakers in South...
...provinces - Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal - have declared their intention to provide anti-AIDS drugs to all HIV-positive pregnant women and their children. The Congress of South African Trade Unions, a close political partner of the ruling African National Congress, allied itself with Achmat's drug purchase in Brazil. Many state doctors and health officials, especially in the rural areas, are quietly accepting offers of funding from the private sector and overseas to obtain antiretrovirals. "It's a revolt that's gone underground," said a KwaZulu health worker. But in some provinces officials have been suspended and doctors have...
According to the pamphlet and website, the Twelve Tribes span the globe from Dorchester to Australia, Brazil and Germany. Today, the group has between 1,000 and 1,500 members, with 45 in the local Boston-area chapter. They make their living picking up rice in the church where a wedding has been, as well as making candles, futons and other products “that the community itself uses.” Not surprisingly, the cult has faced opposition from community and governmental groups. Their open inclusion of minors in production has led to child labor citations...