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Travel: United Airlines boosting connections between Lisbon and more US capitals – Portugal

United Airlines has added Washington, DC, to its daily direct routes between Lisbon with connections to many other US capitals. The 8-hour daily flight will be carried out in a Boeing 757-200 with 169 seats. United Airlines has been operating for many years the route between Lisbon Airport and New York, Newark. Currently United Airlines […]

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The Week: Cuts in fishing quota to send sardine prices soaring – by Len Port

By Len Port, Contributor (*) You may have missed World Digestive Health Day organized on 29 May each year by the World Gastroenterology Organization, but more than 43,000 food bank volunteers turned up at supermarkets across Portugal on that day to collect food for distribution among 426,000 of the nation’s hungry. Many other relevant statistics […]

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Travel: TAP Portugal and JetBlue to codeshare flights from New York and Boston – Portugal

TAP Portugal and JetBlue signed an agreement on June 1 to codeshare non-stop flights to Lisbon, Portugal, from New York City’s John F. Kennedy International and Boston’s Logan International. The codeshare will allow TAP Portugal to service 30 US-Lisbon non-stop flights a week, providing its customers access to the low-cost JetBlue network, the largest domestic airline […]

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Book: ‘Men Who Migrate, Women Who Wait’ – Editor’s Note

An analysis is presented of the parish of Lanheses, a northern Portuguese village particularly affected by large-scale peasant emigration, from 1700 to the present day. The author “combines demographic analysis and historical and ethnographic methods to explore its long history of predominantly male emigration, high illegitimacy rates, late marriage, moderated fertility, and frequency of female […]

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China: President Vasco Cordeiro welcomes Chinese Minister of the Sea – Azores

The President of the Government of the Azores, Vasco Cordeiro, welcomed the Minister of the Sea of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Hong, at a meeting held in Ponta Delgada, on June 1, to further discuss contacts already established in matters related to the sea. “Several contacts have been developed between the Azores and […]

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51th Edition: The ‘Azores Airlines Rallye’ grows in prestige and international relevance – Azores

SATA Group is hosting the 51th edition of the ‘Azores Airlines Rallye’ taking place June 2-4 on São Miguel island. The international car racing event – formerly named ‘SATA Rallye Azores’ – is organized by the International Automobile Federation (FIA) as part of the European Rally Championship. With the participation of 36 contenders from 15 […]

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