Portugal’s parliament is debating new procedures to amend its Nationality Law. If approved, anyone born in Portugal will gain jus soli or the right to citizenship, including the children born in the country to immigrant parents. Proposed by the governing Socialist Party, in coalition with the Communist Party, the measure will amend the current Nationality […]
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Citizenship: Portuguese parliament debates easing naturalization laws – Portugal
Posted on 13 June 2017.
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FIRST Global: Team Portugal competing at the International Robot Olympics – Washington, DC
Posted on 12 June 2017.
A team of Portuguese high school students will travel from Portugal to participate in the inaugural International Robot Olympics to be hosted in Washington, DC, at Constitution Hall, July 16-18, to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge. Contestants from 160 countries will build robots revolving around access to clean water. The goal is to show […]
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Memoir: ‘My first books were baseball books’ – By George Monteiro
Posted on 11 June 2017.
In 1942, for Christmas, I was given Paul Gallop’s book about Lou Gehrig. Its cover and dust jacket were in bright orange, with a picture of the “Pride of the Yankees” on the jacket, along with a picture of the movie-star Gary Cooper, who played Gehrig in the sentimental movie directed by Sam Woods. I […]
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Community: Whaling Museum launches Portuguese language website – New Bedford, MA
Posted on 09 June 2017.
The New Bedford Whaling Museum has launched a Portuguese version of its website timed to coincide with New Bedford’s opening ceremony for the international Day of Portugal celebrations. The website will increase access to information about Whaling Museum programs, exhibitions, research, and scholarship. More than 300 pages of the Museum’s content-rich website have been translated. […]
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Book: ‘Warning to the Crocodiles’ by António Lobo Antunes – Editor’s Note
Posted on 09 June 2017.
Set in the aftermath of the “Carnation Revolution” of April 25, 1974, Antonio Lobo Antunes’s Warning to the Crocodiles is a fragmented narrative of the violent tensions resulting from major political changes in Portugal. Told through the memories of four women who spend their days fashioning homemade explosives and participating in the kidnap and torture […]
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Community: Portugal Day celebrations held in Providence – Rhode Island
Posted on 08 June 2017.
The Assistant Secretary for External Relations of the Government of the Azores starts Friday, June 9, a three-day visit to the United States to participate in the celebrations of Portugal Day in Providence, Rhode Island, and meet with the Azorean community and institutions. On Friday, June 9, Secretary Bettencourt will address the Rhode Island State […]
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