https://www.scmp.com/rss/523142/feed The latest news and top stories on Dilma Rousseff, the president of the New Development Bank since March 2023, reelected to a second term in 2025. She was Brazil’s first female president from 2011 until her impeachment in 2016. She was the Minister of Mines and Energy and then the Chief of Staff in the cabinet of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Igor Patrick Igor Patrick Brazil’s top military court has closed a dictatorship-era case against nine Chinese citizens who were arrested and tortured in 1964, ending a process that stayed open for more than six decades despite the lack of evidence behind the original charges. In a decision released on Sunday, Brazil’s Superior Military Court ruled that the case should legally have expired in 1981 but was never closed. As a result, a 50-volume case file remained on the docket. The closure lifts a lingering point of... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3333168/brazil-ends-60-year-case-chinese-detainees-tortured-under-military-regime?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3333168/brazil-ends-60-year-case-chinese-detainees-tortured-under-military-regime?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:58:24 +0000 Reuters Reuters Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Luiz Fux voted on Wednesday to acquit former president Jair Bolsonaro of forming a criminal organisation and voted to annul his trial over jurisdiction, breaking with peers and raising the odds of an appeal after the final verdict this week. The high court still seems likely to convict Bolsonaro of plotting a coup to remain in power after he was voted out of office in 2022. Two judges on the five-judge panel have already voted to convict, and the remaining two... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3325105/brazil-judge-votes-acquit-bolsonaro-coup-case-breaking-peers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3325105/brazil-judge-votes-acquit-bolsonaro-coup-case-breaking-peers?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:53:33 +0000 David Dodwell David Dodwell Back to April 2016, at the Qingfeng steamed bun restaurant in Beijing’s bustling Xicheng district, Jin Liqun lunched with the Asia editor of the Financial Times to introduce himself and China’s newly created Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Beijing’s decision to establish a development bank reflected in part a deep frustration with the reluctance of the world’s leading economies to give China (and other leading developing economies) more influence in Bretton Woods institutions such... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3317731/after-10-years-aiib-welcomes-new-leadership-and-fresh-us-challenges?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3317731/after-10-years-aiib-welcomes-new-leadership-and-fresh-us-challenges?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:30:07 +0000 Igor Patrick,Khushboo Razdan Igor Patrick,Khushboo Razdan Brics leaders have called for stronger cohesion, expanded trade and increased use of local currency to improve the Global South’s clout as an alternative to Western power, even as the bloc of emerging markets maintains ties and partnerships with wealthier countries. As two new members joined the New Development Bank, also known as the “Brics bank”, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim told business leaders and investors on Saturday that this delicate balancing act and bid for greater momentum... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3317125/brics-leaders-urge-cohesion-trade-and-use-local-currency-grow-global-south-clout?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3317125/brics-leaders-urge-cohesion-trade-and-use-local-currency-grow-global-south-clout?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 06 Jul 2025 05:00:15 +0000