The Angolan ambassador to Canada, Agostinho Tavares, and the Portuguese and Brazilian counterparts, João Pedro Silveira de Carvalho and Piragibe dos Santos Tarragó, respectively, met in Ottawa this week to discuss issues relating to Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP). As a result, it was announced the launching in Canada of the Day of the Portuguese […]
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CPLP: Day of the Portuguese Language and Culture – Canada
Posted on 30 November 2011.
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FADO: “Amália Hoje” and other performers playing Boston and New York
Posted on 30 November 2011.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is hosting two nights of Portuguese Music, at the Howard Gilman Opera House, Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. On December 2, BAM features performances from Lisbon’s finest musicians, tracing the roots of Fado through the Portuguese guitar and a multigenerational vocal ensemble, coupled with the […]
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Summit: President Barroso meets President Obama – Washington, DC
Posted on 29 November 2011.
A delegation of European Union officials, led by the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, met with President Barak Obama in the White House Monday as part of a long scheduled annual EU-US summit to discuss the Eurozone debt crisis and how to ease the crisis. The visiting delegation included European Council President […]
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CGTP: Week of protests scheduled for December – Portugal
Posted on 28 November 2011.
The leader of CGTP, Carvalho da Silva, announced Monday that workers nationwide will hold a week of protests scheduled for December 12-17. CGTP is the country’s largest trade union federation representing 727,000 workers in 81 unions. Speaking at a press conference, Silva said demonstrations are being called to protest against changes in the labor law […]
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2012: Rep. Barney Frank not seeking re-election – Fall River, MA
Posted on 28 November 2011.
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), 71, a member of the Congressional Portuguese American Caucus, announced Monday he will not seek re-election in 2012 for a 17th term in Congress. The liberal Democrat, representing Massachusetts’ Fourth District, will retire because, according to a source close to the Representative, he would have to run in a newly drawn […]
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SIAM: Irene Fonseca president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics – Pittsburgh,PA
Posted on 28 November 2011.
Mathematician Irene Fonseca, 55, was elected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) the world’s largest and most prestigious scientific society dedicated to applied mathematics. Fonseca is the first Portuguese national to head SIAM funded in 1952, serving over 13 thousand members and 500 institutions worldwide. She is the second woman to serve […]
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