The Portuguese Football Federation voted with 81 percent to support new statutes that comply with International Federation of Association Footbal (FIFA) regulations to avoid a ban from the 2012 international soccer season. FIFA had threatened to ban Portugal from all competitions unless the Portuguese Football Federation revised their statutes which demanded an amendment to the rules of representation of different […]
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Portugal will play by the rules – FIFA
Posted on 18 March 2011.
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George Lima community hero died – People
Posted on 17 March 2011.
National hero, civil rights activist, stated politician and community leader, the Honorable George Silva Lima died March 15, at the age of 93. He served as the State Representative for Portuguese-speaking District 83 in East Providence, Rhode Island, for two terms. He graduated from Brown University and attended North Carolina A & T College where he […]
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Portuguese spelling to cost $100 million – Mozambique
Posted on 17 March 2011.
According to Zeferino Martins, Minister of Education of Mozambique, the implementation of the new reforms of the Portuguese orthography will cost $100 million dollars to the country. The costs include new textbooks, teacher training, journalists and government officials training, and expenses with activities to implement and disseminate the recent orthographic changes. The changes resulted from […]
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Portugal’s sovereign debt downgraded – Lisbon
Posted on 16 March 2011.
Global ratings agency Moody’s has downgraded Portugal’s sovereign debt rating today, citing the country’s need to cut debt and its poor growth prospects while Portugal’s main opposition party announced it will oppose the government’s austerity plans. Prime Minister José Socrates has warned the country could face a bail-out. “The consequence of a political crisis would […]
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“Walking on Dry Land” unveils family secrets – Book
Posted on 16 March 2011.
Denis Kehoe, an Irish writer based in Dublin, is the author of Walking On Dry Land (2011) a cross-cultural novel about a young Portuguese woman, Ana de Castro, searching for her biological mother. The narrative deals with the unvailing of family secrets, missing parents, secret children and betrayals. The narrative moves between Ana’s quest for her […]
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Giant dinosaur discovered – Angola
Posted on 16 March 2011.
According to the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences a long-necked, plant-eating sauropod – discovered in Angola in 2005 – is believed to be one of the largest creatures ever to have walked the earth. Portuguese paleontologist Octávio Mateus, who found the new dinosaur, and named Angolatitan Adamastor – Angolatitan means “Angolan giant” and the Adamastor […]
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