Brazilian authorities probing BYD’s labour practices in the country say the carmaker brought hundreds of Chinese workers on irregular visas to build the factory

Workers at the site, which was to be BYD's first EV factory outside of Asia, faced forced labour, long working hours, and sleep deprivation caused by inadequate housing conditions

Chinese exports of pure electric and plug-in hybrid cars to Brazil soared 13-fold year-on-year partly due to a drop in shipments to EU on the back of an ongoing anti-subsidy probe

Putin said Russia was discussing increasing the presence of Chinese cars on the Russian market as well as the opening of Indian supermarket Chains.

That gave it the third-largest share of the central bank's reserves. US dollar reserves fell to 80.34% of the total from 86.03% a year earlier

Samarco, a joint venture between Brazil's Vale and Australia's BHP Group, changed its restructuring plan to offer a new alternative to pay creditors

The company will assemble cars in the city of Iracemápolis in São Paulo state at a factory owned by Mercedes-Benz until August last year 

US exporters in some recent years have sold in excess of 3 million tonnes of soybeans to China in the second half of the marketing year

São Paulo-based company does not rule out acquisitions in China but senior executive prefers building the company's own factory there

China's economic slowdown will hit Brazil and Chile, plus South Africa, Ethiopia, Germany, Saudi Arabia and many countries in the Asia-Pacific, analyst says.

Burgeoning e-commerce group became Brazil's most-downloaded shopping app, luring customers via in-app mini-games that offer coupons to winners

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