Posted on 10 July 2018.
Portuguese club Sport Lisboa and Benfica (Benfica) has invited the 12 rescued Thai young soccer players and their soccer coach to spend an all-expenses-paid week in Portugal, at their Seixal training academy, Reuters reported. The boys were rescued from a vast cavernous system in northern Thailand on a complex three-day operation. Rescuers completed the rescue […]
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Posted on 06 July 2018.
Portuguese lawmakers rejected a bill banning bullfights, submited by PAN, the People-Animals-Nature party. The bill was rejected by all major parties with few abstentions. During the debate, Deputy André Silva of the PAN, a party represented by a single deputy, defended that bullfighting is execrable fun, based on torture, “consisting in showing the most abject […]
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Posted on 05 July 2018.
The 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, will be the keynote speaker at a conference titled ‘Climate Change Leadership Porto 2018 Summit’ taking place on Friday, July 6, at the Porto Coliseum. The event will address environmental issues focusing on climate change and solutions. Climate change was one of President Obama’s main concerns […]
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Posted in Conferences, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
Posted on 02 July 2018. Tags: 2018, Algarve, Athens, Greece, Lisbon, Madeira, Portugal, winners, World Travel Awards, WTA
Portugal was voted for the second consecutive year the ‘Best European Destination’ for travelers at the 25the World Travel Awards (WTA), known as the ‘World Tourism Oscars.’ With Portugal, Lisbon and Madeira Island also received international recognition. Lisbon was voted the ‘Best City Destination’ in Europe for the third consecutive year and for ‘Best European […]
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Posted in Awards, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, Portugal, World
Posted on 30 June 2018.
Traditionally a navigating and migratory people, Portuguese settlers came to the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century. The ancestors of the modern Portuguese community in Trinidad and Tobago hailed from the archipelago of Madeira, fleeing their homeland in search of an economic and religious haven from the 1830s onwards. They came neither to explore […]
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Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, People, Portugal, World
Posted on 30 June 2018.
Portuguese carrier politician, António Vitorino, former European Union commissioner, was elected on Friday, as the next Director General for the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Elected by acclamation by the 169 IOM member states, he bypassed United States nomenee, Ken Isaacs, President Donald Trump’s pick for the post. Current IOM Deputy Chief Laura Thompson of […]
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