02 October 2021
Portugal has had a shared language and close social ties with Brazil since it discovered and started colonizing this huge South American country five centuries ago, but it now finds itself in danger of suffering an environmental catastrophe, partly because of the on-going destruction of the Amazon rainforest more than 4,500 kilometres away. Since 1970, […]
01 October 2021
Prime Minister António Costa has announced on Thursday that, effective October 1, Portugal is officially fully COVID’19 vaccinated, with more than 8.5 million people inoculated, or 83.4% of its population. Declaring October 1 “Freedom Day!” the Prime Minister said that by the end of this week, “Portugal should have 85% of its citizens fully vaccinated.” […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal, Travel
29 September 2021
The Autonomous Region of the Azores witnessed a 97.5% increase in passengers arriving at local airports in August. The numbers, revealed by the Regional Statistical Service of the Azores (SREA), draw a comparison between last month and the same period in 2020. According to the SREA, 200,121 passengers disembarked in August, of which 105,485 from […]
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28 September 2021
Set in the aftermath of the “Carnation Revolution” of April 25, 1974, António Lobo Antunes’s Warning to the Crocodiles is a fragmented narrative of the violent tensions resulting from major political changes in Portugal. Told through the memories of four women, who spend their days fashioning homemade explosives and participating in the kidnap and torture […]
Posted in Books, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World
27 September 2021
The Lisbon based Champalimaud Foundation has received a donation of €50 million for the construction of a research and treatment center for pancreatic cancer. The bequest was made by Mauricio Botton Carasso and his wife, Charlotte Botton, the owners of Danone, a multinational food-products corporation founded in Spain, in 1919, by Mauricio Botton Carasso. The […]
Posted in Awards, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal
27 September 2021
The Socialist Party (PS) was the overall winner from the Sunday Portugal’s municipal elections. With 99% of the ballots counted, the total results are not yet officially out. However, after 14 years the Socialists, which have governed Portugal since 2015, have lost the municipality of Lisbon, which went to the opposition Social Democratic Party (PSD). […]
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