The former SATA International, renamed Azores Airlines, is launching its new image in the United States and Canada markets. The rebranded air carrier is operated by state owned SATA airlines, based in the Azores. The Azores Airlines hopes to increase its annual flight capacity to over 50,000 passengers, representing an increase of 40% in the […]
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Travel: Azores Airlines launches new marketing image – USA & Canada
Posted on 19 February 2016.
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Book: ‘The Portuguese in the Creole Indian Ocean’ – Editor’s Note
Posted on 14 February 2016.
When the Portuguese first entered the Indian Ocean centuries ago, they intruded upon an ancient creole and cosmopolitan world. Also, they entered a world with age-old connections to the Mediterranean. This book explores some of the intriguing interstices of colonial and other spaces in the ocean, through a scrutiny of personages, texts, and authors between […]
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Book: ‘It’s Best Not to Interrupt Her Experiments’ – Editor’s Note
Posted on 13 February 2016.
It’s Best Not to Interrupt Her Experiments consists of a series of poems featuring women — some fictional, some nonfictional. There are bounty hunters, Battle Bots champs, werewolves, homunculi, escape artists, archers, and CIA bagwomen. Even Lucy, now an adult, attempts to come to terms with her systematic torturing of her childhood pal, Charlie Brown, […]
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Parliament: Abortion laws liberalized and same sex couples adoption rights granted – Portugal
Posted on 13 February 2016.
The Portuguese Parliament, ruled by a Socialist-Communist majority coalition led by Prime Minister António Costa, has further liberalized abortion laws and granted same-sex couples the right to adopt children. Overturning a veto by President Aníbal Cavaco Silva last month, the new ruling allows for same sex couples to adopt children and removes the mandatory requirement […]
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Travel: Lisbon renames international airport after national hero – Portugal
Posted on 12 February 2016.
Lisbon Portela Airport will be renamed after Humberto Delgado, a Portuguese Air Force General who presided over the foundation of TAP Air Portugal, the national flagship airline, the Portuguese government announced Thursday. At a press conference after the meeting of Council of Ministers, Minister of Planning and Infrastructure, Pedro Marques said the Lisbon Portela Airport […]
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Book: Popular Art From the Heart of Portugal – Review
Posted on 11 February 2016.
By Richard Simas,Contributor (*) What a fascinating read and visual feast is anthropologist Anthony Alan Shelton’s Heaven, Hell and Somewhere In Between, an exquisite photo album and collection of essays on Portuguese popular art. The book is a companion piece for the 2015 major exhibition curated by Shelton at the University of British Columbia’s Museum […]
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