" Information Asymmetry and Competition in Credit Markets", by Joao Manoel Pinho de Mello, January 2005.

ECONOMIST: Sources and acknowledgements

Spokesman Manoel de Almeida de Silva said he had been receiving reports of violations for the past two years.

BBC: NEWS | South Asia | US in full review of Afghan jails

At ethanol plants such as Sao Manoel, they say they keep within rules set by the government for rural workers, and have introduced changes to improve working practices.

BBC: Brazil defends biofuel's merits

"We started when we realised that we had to do something before rubbish completely destroyed our environment, " the bank's manager, Joao Manoel Ribeiro dos Santos, also a former bricklayer, said.

BBC: Paying with 'kisses' as Brazil��s social currencies spread

Mr. Brahimi's speech, delivered by his Spokesperson, Mr. Manoel de Almedia e Silva, said that "perhaps more than any other people, Afghans understand and know the importance and value of independent information".

UNESCO: Communication and Information

The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, a centenarian, reaches to the world beyond for this story of mad love and self-consuming art, set in the rustic realms of the Douro wine country.

NEWYORKER: The Strange Case of Angelica

When the director Manoel de Oliveira wants to show that his elderly protagonist, Gilbert (Michel Piccoli), is an actor, he starts the film with fourteen minutes of a stage performance of a play by Ionesco (featuring Catherine Deneuve, in a cameo).

NEWYORKER: I'm Going Home

This recession-age fable, which revolves around love, work, family pressures, and hidebound traditions, is set in contemporary Lisbon but breathes the air of a dreamy, timeless romanticism one that befits the long view of life taken by its hundred-year-old director, Manoel de Oliveira.

NEWYORKER: Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl