Rio

While its men were detained without charge, Rio appears to have been as much in the dark as everyone else.

BHP and Rio reckon this is unfair and that they should be awarded a bigger piece of the "freight differential" between them and Vale.

But Sir Alex said he won't make up his mind whether to start Rio until the day of the game.

Rio said the comments should be considered in the "context of our ongoing price negotiations" .

Everyone along the valley of the Rio Grande seems to believe that the border is slowly closing.

Rio has headquarters in London but any takeover would also be investigated in Australia, where it has significant assets.

Andrew Harding, head of Rio Tinto's copper division, said the softness in the Chinese market could persist for six months to a year.

Rio has been trying to sell various non-core assets for more than a year but has found buyers thin on the ground.

People close to Rio said yesterday that the offer "isn't even close" to a level that would tempt the company into a friendly deal with BHP.

It's just as well, as Rio Ferdinand is said to be "making progress" with his back injury, but is not looking at an imminent return.

The police station in Cidade de Deus is one of eight, known as UPPs or Pacifying Police Units, set up in Rio's favelas since late 2008.

As demonstrated by Rio's bid for Alcan, even traditionally conservative companies are prepared to pay up to secure high-quality assets.

BHP, although a smaller player in the iron ore market than Rio, is just as keen to see the old model of iron ore pricing break down.

"There" s much to do to get the Olympic Games. The reality for Rio is that this Pan Am Games opens the door for a good bid.

He said the Rio board had decided unanimously this week to pursue the deal with Chinalco, headed by Xiao Yaqing.

The main obstacle had been the extent to which Chinalco would be represented on Rio's board of directors, he explained.

But now relations seem to be improving, at least between Rio and Chinalco.

Meanwhile the question remains of how Rio did not spot corruption in one of its most profitable markets.

A spokesman at Rio Tinto's headquarters in London said late Tuesday that the company was not yet aware that the charges had been filed.

Explaining how he is going to get Rio out of its current mess will put Mr Albanese's oratorical powers to a similarly stiff test.

Howard Stark: The Rio Grande. Billy the Kid's resting place. Los Almos. This and that, you know.

United did not miss the suspended centre-half Rio Ferdinand all that much.

In return, we want Rio Tinto to be a reliable and valued part of China's long-term development, ' he said.

Rio's dealers seem to be an exception to Brazil's national picture of unequal income distribution.

It is owned 50-50 by Rio and BHP, but the companies propose to make the venture mostly autonomous as if it were a third-party contractor.

Rio, which had just taken on its current chief executive, Tom Albanese, was loth to entertain an offer from its archrival.

Even before BHP and Rio decided to team up, China had been trying to undermine the pricing power of the big iron-ore firms.

Rio said the uncertainties over the global economy meant it was reviewing its plans to build new mines and expand existing operations.

"Rio and Vida have missed a few games, which has given me a chance and it's been nice to be back in the centre, " the 30-year-old says.

The Olympics have never been held in South America and Rio is hoping that will count in its favour as it bids for the 2016 Olympics.

Once the men were convicted, Rio immediately sacked them, prompting accusations it had abandoned them to avoid Beijing's censure.

Rio needs shareholder approval for the deal to go ahead and a vote is likely to take place in July.

The Carnival takes place each year at the beginning of Lent, when Rio comes alive with colour, rhythm and a sense of theatre.

Even without all that, however, Rio has some making up to do to its largest shareholder.

Southeast University Law School Professor Zhang Malin that merit, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton have long to realize that this point.

No, Rio. It's cheaper, women are much hotter. . . I could get a little place in Ipanema.

The shock detention of Mr Hu and the other Rio employees seems to have soured the previously solid relations between Beijing and Canberra.

It had already bent: Rio, like BHP, confirmed 50 per cent of its iron ore had been sold on the spot market in the first half.

Lakshmi Mittal is considering entering the takeover battle for Rio Tinto, the mining group, according to people familiar with the matter.

Mr Xiong said the deal would not change Rio's corporate strategy, the way it operates its business or the pricing of its products.

But for now Rio appears committed to Chinalco and is not able to prepare investors for a "Plan B" , even if it has one.

As a shareholder, Chinalco would be happy to see Rio focus more on its own operations.

Rio is in an expansion phase and in the next few years they should go over 300m tonnes [of iron ore a year].

"I understand Rio's frustration because racism is a very ugly phenomenon and I feel we need to stamp it out, " Gaillard told Sky Sports.

BHP's efforts to acquire Rio might, like the mining business itself, turn out to be cyclical.

Until the $38bn blockbuster deal in 2007, Rio had been a conservative custodian of assets rather than a trader or acquirer of companies.

When the new arrivals got to Rio, often the only way to find a home was to build one out of orphaned bits of timber and masonry.

Rio Tinto n will owe it a $195 million break-up fee, on top of recent gains on its existing Rio stake.

Stern Hu, the Australian executive detained by China, was one of Rio Tinto's top price negotiators .

A final option might be something like Rio has done: sell part of the company to China.

He promised that the Rio Tinto board would continue to run the company, and argued that Chinalco was paying a premium for the assets.

Rio, Ivanhoe and the hordes of other mining groups marauding over the steppe may want to see this as a piece of theatre.

Upon arriving back in Rio, Ronaldo placed his rehabilitation programme in the hands of his boyhood idols Flamengo and their medical staff.

A mudslide struck a small luxury hotel on an island southwest of Rio de Janeiro early Friday due to heavy rain, killing at least 15 people.

A community of Brazilians from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has grown up in Ford Lauderdale , Florida .

Steven Gerrard is set to captain England at the World Cup after Rio Ferdinand was ruled out with a knee injury.

If the Chinalco deal falls apart or evolves, it is prepared to step in with its own offer to buy some of Rio's top-tier assets.

Corruption seems to be fairly common in the notoriously murky iron ore worldinChina, but only Rio's employees were targeted.

The dynamic duo to which he refers is the fearsome partnership of Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic.

Rio plans to team with BHP in iron-rich Western Australia in a joint venture the steelmakers fear could turn out to be monopolistic.

Much of that destruction was to make way for cities like Salvador, Recife, Rio de Janeiro and S? o Paulo.

Rio maintains that it needs funds of about $20bn to pay off debts due for payment over the next two years.

Unless the price is extraordinarily high, it is hard to see why Rio would prefer this to a rights issue, however arduous.

Both of these conventions came out of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Rio is only the second South American city to be a candidate, after Buenos Aires had three unsuccessful attempts.

Hu was arrested a month after Rio Tinto rebuffed state-owned Chinalco's attempt to double its stake in the company.

And the company is expected to announce it is in advanced talks with BHP over a sale of some of Rio Tinto's Australian iron-ore assets.

It confirmed yesterday that Rio Tinto would pay it a $195m break fee for withdrawing from the deal.

Xiao Yaqing, president of Chinalco, said yesterday that the company was content with its minority interest in Rio Tinto.

And since the deal was struck in February, Rio's share price rose enough to wipe out the premium Chinalco had offered.

In the week before the Olympic committee's decision, the New Yorker magazine ran a chilling account of a Rio drug lord and his fief.

Chinese firms are among the front-runners to build a $19 billion "bullet" train line between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

All this with the meandering bend in the Rio Grande and the Sierra del Carmen beckoning from across the river in Mexico.

In the town of Guardados de Abajo, another army unit is camping along the Rio Grande when soldiers hear a truck rumbling in the dark.

It also confirms the growing market power of a few big mining companies, including BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto PLC and Vale.

The action often takes place in Rio de Janeiro, where Globo is based, among families which are smaller, whiter and richer than average.

The Rio deal would give Chinalco as much as an 18% stake in the Anglo-Australian miner as well as direct stakes in a number of its mines.

Rio Tinto indicated it intends to hold out in hopes of securing bigger payouts from its Asian customers.

Rio's investigation, crucially, did not extend to the men's private dealings.

'Arguably some of the mud may stick, although there has been no direct linkage to Rio Tinto, ' he said.

Mr Albanese said any hold-up of ships carrying ore to China for spot market sales had not had "any material impact" on Rio.

Fabio Capello has no intention of wrapping his players in cotton wool to avoid another Rio Ferdinand-type injury.

Or to put it another way, China will buy Rio in order to run it into the ground.

The end result of the talks with Chinalco could be a two-way or three-way agreement between Ivanhoe, Rio and Chinalco, Rio added.

She flew down to Rio the next week, and he came to the airport with a driver to meet her.

'It was the shareholders' reaction that fundamentally saw Rio go off and cut another set of arrangements.

Investors were disappointed that Rio had not benefited more from the currently high spot price, some 50 per cent above the benchmark.

Unlike the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, where gun-toting adolescents rule, the poor parts of Contagem were not abandoned by the state.

But Arslanian said there was no indication of problems with the plane before it left Rio de Janeiro on Sunday night en route to Paris.

Rio, which has a bigger share of production, relies more on traditional benchmarking once a year, while BHP favors a spot price.

He made this very clear today in the press conference given to Brazilian journalists, in Rio de Janeiro.

Given Rio's tricky financial situation, Chinalco is in position to get a good measure of control of such assets at a decent price.

Nor would such a discussion happen unless the Rio board approached Chinalco, having accepted some shareholders' complaints.

By then it will also be clear whether work for the Olympic games to be held in Rio de Janeiro two years later is on track.

One of the detained Rio employees, Stern Hu, is an Australian citizen and the case has raised tensions between Beijing and Canberra.

The message on Thursday was that the debt-financed era into which Rio plunged with Alcan was over.

Compared with the recent dust-up between Rio Tinto and Chinalco, this is just the virtuous circle that China is trying to draw offshore.

For old times' sake. check out Britney performing this classic at Rock in Rio for her Onyx Hotel Tour in Brazil.

Rio Tinto said it was still waiting for regulatory clearance for the joint venture, which many steelmakers claim would be anti-competitive.

Rio Tinto was more attached to benchmark pricing but has become more receptive to a different system.

Rio Tinto said it would have to invest "over a billion dollars" in infrastructure to develop Riversdale's coal project in Mozambique.

As a result of seizing computers during the arrests it seems that China believes it has found evidence of Rio's wrongdoing.

But now that Rio is the subject of a hostile takeover bid from BHP, it has taken the lead on aggressive pricing.

Towers in the Guanabala bay Nankou's two as if bread mountain peaks (Austria storehouse Kashan) is Rio de Janeiro's symbol.

But even if it lifts its holding to the maximum, it will not qualify for a seat on Rio's board.

That's what happens and Rio's decided to sort it out.

A: As I said before, the Rio Tinto case is an individual judicial case.

Explanation: As the Sun rose, a nearly full Moon set in this serene seaside vista captured last Monday from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Up to now, heavy rain caused landslides and mud slides have resulted in the Brazilian state of Rio more than 400 deaths.

It would have been $47 a tonne if Rio had settled at Vale's level, he said.

He went 3, 000 miles on an odyssey to Rio to the Earth Summit to tell the world what was happening in his tiny , little corner .

The famous Copacabana song may have been about a New York nightclub but almost everyone has heard of this amazing beach in Rio de Janeiro.

If lessons are to be learned from Rio's tragedy, the place to look is not in the clouds.

The other big question is whether Chinalco and its allies would be willing to make a full offer for Rio.

If Xstrata's deal involves helping an old friend, Rio is supping with its toughest customers.

To overcome these big drawbacks Rio would have to exhibit a degree of dealmaking skill that has so far eluded it.

One of my favorite pictures of the month is from our visit one night to Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The plane went down in the mid Atlantic while on a flight between Rio de Janeiro and Paris.

The concept of "sustainable development" was generated from the Earth Summit of the United Nations held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992.

The arrest was the latest stage of a crisis that started over Rio's negotiations to fix an annual price for iron ore.

Fellow centre-back Rio Ferdinand, who did not fly with the team on Monday morning, is rested.

Yet should one of those options to raise money be via a Rio Tinto-style deal with China, ArcelorMittal should think again.

Analysts said that despite the Rio setback, if demand continued to grow, China would explore all options.

Australian officials yesterday gained consular access to one of the four Rio employees being held, Australian Stern Hu.

June 15, Rio Tinto spokesman said the implementation of the prisoner exchange treaty could not comment.

Rio seems to have served as a lesson.

However, if the bank lends you $10 million, you are more likely to fly off to Rio to celebrate.

"It will be of value from Rio's perspective and of value from the Chinese state company's perspective, " he said.

I've visited Brazil many times, and on my last trip I convinced myself that I was an honorary Carioca, a true Rio native.

Rio confirmed that its Australian iron ore mines were producing at a maximum capacity of 200m tonnes a year.

Adam made a direct run through midfield and was only stopped by a foul from Rio Ferdinand on the edge of the area.

Deutsche and Rio declined to comment. CIC did not return phone calls seeking comment.

The last drawing is of a proposed Goodyear airship from 1939 for the New York to Rio route.

12-year-old little girl Matilda has a pair of early maturity and vicissitudes of the eyes, she looked blankly asked Rio.

Rio has a market capitalisation of about $140bn, with 77 per cent of its shares listed in London and the remainder in Sydney.

Rio Tinto has not acknowledged that it has lost the title to the northern block of Simandou, which Vale now controls.

Liverpool captain Gerrard was given the armband after Rio Ferdinand was rule out of the tournament due to injury.

Rio said earlier this week it was unaware of any evidence to support the allegations.

The project, off Rio de Janeiro, is expected to attract up to $40bn in total investment and should serve both miners and oil companies.

Harry Winston owns 40 percent of the mine and operator Rio Tinto, based in London, owns the remainder.

BHP and Rio estimate that the joint venture will save at least $10bn from production and development synergies.

England captain Rio Ferdinand injured his left knee in training Friday and went to a hospital for a scan, AP reported.

In his remarks, Mr. Xiong avoided any of the heated nationalist talk that has shadowed the Chinalco-Rio deal in both China and Australia.

A Brazilian judge known for her work against organised crime has been shot dead in Rio de Janeiro state.

The Rio investment brings with it two board seats and no guarantee Chinalco will not pursue a larger stake later.

Rio has maintained it has complied with its obligations and has rights to the whole concession.

In addition, Vale, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton will not see any big expansion in supply for the next two years.

Stern Hu, Rio's former head salesman, does not appear to have made a statement either way.

If Linda, his owner, brings him to Rio, the bird can mate the last female blue macaw and re-start the species.

Rio and BHP have said the JV will be "production-only" , combining infrastructure and budgets but not pricing power.

Start asking them about feelings and the next thing you'll see is their credit-card receipt for a one-way ticket to Rio.

'We have been advised by the Australian government of this surprising allegation, ' a spokeswoman for Rio Tinto said.

"We have been advised by the Australian government of this surprising allegation, " a Rio spokeswoman in Sydney said.

"Rio is still struggling with a calf strain, " the manager told his pre-match press conference.

China may disagree, but the best way to clear the air would be simply to make its own legitimate, honestly priced bid for all of Rio Tinto.

This Mongolian copper deposit, near China's border , has also been rumoured as the site of a potential Rio-Chinalco joint venture .

BHP had been expected to launch an offer of three BHP shares for each Rio share on Wednesday, the deadline set by the UK Takeover Panel.

Sales to China by Rio's operations in Australia account for about a fifth of the company's $60bn annual turnover.

But China has never been comfortable with any coziness between Rio and BHP.

Many of Rio's subsequent travails are a result of the enormous debt it took on to outbid America's Alcoa with a knockout $38 billion offer.

In recent weeks, such tensions have been nowhere in sight. Rio Tinto expressed a desire to move on.

Just like any other over-leveraged asset manager, Rio Tinto is reining in the non-essential spending.

Finally, the Rio de la Plata deposits nitrogen and iron-laden sediment into the ocean just north of the area shown in the image.

The credit crunch would have made it hard for BHP to service Rio's debts in addition to the ones it would acquire during the takeover.

She and fellow sex workers were to parade the novelty t-shirts in a Rio fashion show later Wednesday.

China is also trying to whittle down iron-ore prices in talks with Rio and other suppliers.

Mr. Hu was in charge of Rio's China iron-ore department, and oversaw the company's ore sales to Chinese steelmakers.

And from the parading samba schools in Rio to the calypso tents on Trinidad, the art form most identified with carnival is that of music.

"Rio is unlikely to budge on the price cuts because of the arrests as it won't be consistent with its business practices, " Hu said.

Rio Ferdinand did not fail a drugs test. He escaped a scheduled drugs test.

"China's meeting memos were secretly leaked to Rio Tinto, " The Economic Observer, a state-controlled Chinese newspaper, reported Friday.

It's difficult to think of who else Rio Tinto could approach right now to raise a sum speculated to be as high as $15 billion.

The main reason for this delay is the time needed by the regional indicating office (RIO) to do their assessment and to give approval.

This investment gives them a 9 per cent overall stake in Rio which enjoys dual listing in London and Sydney.

An Amcor spokesman declined to comment. Rio said earlier that it intends to sell the rest of the business.

They can barely dig it out fast enough to meet demand. Rio Tinto plans to double its 2007 iron-ore production (160m tonnes) in four years.

Last week Rio said that it was considering a rights issue, but that would doubtless need to be deeply discounted.

Rio Ferdinand did not fail a drugs test. He missed a scheduled drugs test.

An Air France Airbus A330 jet crashed at sea on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris last week, killing all 228 people on board.

Rio has said it is not aware of any evidence that supports China's allegations against the four.

Rio from Italy to the United States not to kill the time is a very ordinary little man, only his killer as a means to earn a living.

Cristo Redentor, or Christ the Redeemer, opens his arms wide as if to embrace all of Rio de Janeiro.

Rio, with its superior near-term growth, must be particularly upset.

This culminated in a bid by one of the world's biggest diversified miners, BHP Billiton, for another, Rio Tinto, in November 2007.

The Rio Grande formed part of the border between the United States and Mexico.

In contrast, Rio is one of many resources companies that want to offload assets, pushing down acquisition price tags.

Aluminum Corp of China suspended its shares yesterday amid expectations of a deal with Rio Tinto, the Anglo-Australian miner.

Chinese companies have been talking about taking a stake in miner Rio Tinto, the target of a bid from BHP Billiton.

It has taken Rio a long while to repair the damage to its balance-sheet to the extent that it can again try to grow by acquisition.

The end result of the talks could be a two-way or three-way agreement between Ivanhoe, Rio and the Chinese company, Rio said in the filing.

Rio Tinto yesterday said it was still negotiating with its Chinese clients.

The official flag of the Olympics has arrived in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, the host city of the next Games.

The headquarters of IOC is located in Switzerland; the headquarters of aN OC is in France; The headquarters of rio is in Greece.

An upbeat Provincial Tobacco Group president Enrique Cruz said Pinar del Rio "is in a position to recover completely. "

Chairman Paul Skinner's claim that Rio would have done this deal with Chinalco anyway is laughable.

So, too, will the deal on tax that she struck with BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata, Australia's three biggest mining companies.

In the short-term, only Rio and Edwin miss out on Saturday's tea-time clash with Arsenal.

Rio is currently the subject of hostile takeover interest from rival BHP Billiton, meaning voting interest on Rio's shares could be crucial.

The mountainous park in Mexico's Coahuila State joins with Big Bend National Park on the U. S. side of the Rio Grande.

Perhaps the best indication of the shifting balance of power within the industry is the endless upheaval at Rio.

Rio, which has spent months conducting its own investigation of what happened, has never commented on details of case.

Rio said its deal with Chinalco needed to be approved by 50 per cent of shareholders plus one vote in a poll expected in May.

In return, Chinalco buys its way up to a 47 per cent stake in the Rio-Chinalco joint venture.

Chinalco's original raid on Rio, orchestrated by the late Lehman Brothers, was a sophisticated example of City slickness .

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke at the opening of the event, known as the Rio 20.

So far, Rio has financed the project in return for a growing stake in Ivanhoe.

Were the arrests an attempt to unsettle Rio and gain the upper hand in the negotiations?

Rio state government estimates that the state government to be included in the list of 401 missing people may have killed most people.

Chinalco is already the single largest shareholder in Rio Tinto Group, with 9. 25 per cent, but has no board representation.

Rio was an interesting windowing system with some unique attributes.

A few months after Rio bought Alcan, BHP approached Rio with an audacious takeover bid worth some $135 billion.

The idea of a rights issue has not disappeared with brokers fuelling the debate about Rio's future.

Around this time, Rio's advisers were talking to Rio's leading investors to assess the appetite for a sale of new shares.

But the damage still being wrought by Rio's all-cash acquisition of Alcan two years ago should not be glossed over.

Rio Ferdinand faces a critical 24 hours in his race to be for the Champions League final against Barcelona next Wednesday.

Although it loses Rio money, the provisional agreement gives both sides the breathing room to make changes to the system.

Rio hasn't been able to make contact with the employees since they were detained, said Nick Cobban, a spokesman for London-based Rio.

The United States borders Mexico along parts of the Rio Grande.

"Rio will continue to negotiate in good faith for a pricing outcome that reflects the continuing strong market fundamentals. "

At Rio Tinto, a mining firm with a habit of digging holes for itself, a fifth of voting shareholders rejected its remuneration policy.

Monsanto said in a statement that similar suits have been overturned by the Rio Grande do Sul court system.

A giant sculpture of the head of a 14-year-old girl has been unveiled on the famous Botafogo beach, in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.

Water dark with tannin inspired the name Rio Negro, or "black river, " which swirls across virgin sand.

But there was better news about Rio Ferdinand, who could return from a hamstring injury by the end of August.

But a government whose officials bristle at what they see as western condescension demands that Rio publicly accept its decision.

If Rio's accident-prone board is recommending the deal, there must be a prima facie case for doing something else.

Recent warnings from miners Rio Tinto and Alpha Natural Resources of a reversal of orders and tepid US petrol demand are ominous.

The case was broken into two parts, allegations the four Rio Tinto employees accepted bribes and that they stole industrial secrets.

Rio played very well on Saturday but we have Vidic with us here and I felt it was a good opportunity to give Rio a break.

Police accused a local trafficker of torturing kidnap victims with the reptiles, which are native to parts of Rio de Janeiro.

A 2009 bid by the state-owned Chinalco, the top Chinese aluminum producer, to take a stake in the mining company Rio Tinto was abandoned.

Other foreign joint ventures in Cuba cut corners, but Rio Zaza's alleged misdeeds involved particularly large sums of money.

Unlike Fortescue, Rio Tinto's survival was not in doubt, but it faced an extraordinarily difficult refinancing.

Where Rio is trumpeting a "Pioneering strategic partnership" , Fortescue's is a more muted "Share Subscription Agreement" .

Many cariocas, as residents of Rio are known, saw these events as a turning point for a city which has suffered decades of misgovernment.

The takeover has encountered strong opposition from Rio over the price, and has faced resistance from steelmakers in Asia and Europe.

Mr Hu and three Chinese staff of Rio's iron ore trading team have been detained since the weekend.

If that's the case, a BHP-Rio deal would be but an opening act in a world-wide competition for resources for which there are few precedents.

When democracy was restored in the mid-1980s, she had an economics degree and soon became energy secretary in Rio Grande do Sul.

Rio will have to seek regulatory approval from the governments affected by the deal, which include Australia and Chile.

"We consider these initiatives are a superior outcome for Rio's credit quality as opposed to the Chinalco deal, " Nomura International said.

One of the more popular picture postcard sights are the white sand beaches of Rio.

A gunman has shot dead at least 11 children at a school in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.

Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese said completion of the joint venture would be a "priority" in 2010.

Rio also appears to have accepted information that steel mill representatives handed over voluntarily.

Yet, however unpalatable Rio may find going cap in hand to China, the alternative is no more enticing.

One of the most beautiful New Year's Eve celebrations takes place on Copacabana, a beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

BHP Billiton pressed the case for its proposed takeover of rival Rio Tinto as it unveiled record full-year profits yesterday.

Rio beat the Spanish capital Madrid in a final round of voting by the International Olympic Committee meeting in Copenhagen.

Chinese prosecutors never publicly detailed what information the men -- who were later fired by Rio Tinto -- possessed.