Portuguese Parliament is endorsing the movement to make Fado, Portugal’s national song, part of UNESCO’s World Heritage Cultural Patrimony. The Parliamentary Committee for Education, Science and Culture is holding a hearing, on July 19, with a committee of private citizens working with Lisbon City Hall, to promote Fado’s candidacy at UNESCO. After a process started six […]
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Fado to become UNESCO’s World Heritage Cultural Patrimony – Portugal
Posted on 17 July 2011.
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Allan Katz: American tourism could help Portuguese economy
Posted on 16 July 2011.
American tourism could help reseting the Portuguese economy, according to Allan Katz, US Ambassador in Portugal. Speaking at a seminar about Tourism and Security, held in Gaia, northern Portugal, Allan Katz said that of all efforts by the government and the private sector, “This is probably the only area of Portugal’s economy that can grow […]
Portuguese banks passed EBA stress test – Portugal
Posted on 15 July 2011.
According to the Bank of Portugal, the four Portuguese banks subjected to the European Banking Authority (EBA) financial stress test this week, passed the test, showing they have all the capital ratios required by the international banking authority.
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The Portuguese language has a bright future – Portugal
Posted on 15 July 2011.
After a significant decrease in enrollment in recent years, the Portuguese language “is exploding in many regions of the world, offering employment opportunities, if not in Portugal, elsewhere in the world,” said Ana Paula Laborinho the president of Lisbon-based Instituto Camões (IC). Ana Paula Laborinho made the statement in Lisbon, Thursday, at the international conference […]
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Junk Bond: From Portugal with Love – YouTube
Posted on 15 July 2011.
A YouTube video titled “What Moddy’s trashes, we treasure” was created by two Lisbon-based young publicists, Patricia Soares da Costa and David Siqueira Magboulé, with the goal of seizing the moment to promote Portugal as an ideal destination at a time when the country has been rebranded with negative publicity brought by Moody’s decision to […]
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Vanessa Oliveira winner of the Bayer Hemophilia Award – Portugal
Posted on 14 July 2011.
Portuguese researcher, Vanessa Oliveira, of the Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM), based in Lisbon, Portugal, won the prestigious and competitive Early Career Bayer Hemophilia Award. Oliveira is working at developing a strategy to reprogram the immune system of hemophilia patients to avoid immune targeting of the most used clotting therapeutics. She was the only European […]
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