18 July 2017
The Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS) is looking for new individual and organizational members for Fiscal Year 2018, in an effort to promote the involvement of community members, businesses and organizations in the agency’s mission of improving the lives of Portuguese-speaking individuals and families from Massachusetts and help them become contributing, active participants in […]
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17 July 2017
Portuguese food lovers will soon experience a unique food feasting event coming July 20-22 (7pm) at the Kanopi Restaurant, atop Ritz-Carlton Hotel, in White Plains, New York City. The ‘Portuguese Dinner Series’ event is co-hosted by in-house Chef Anthony Gonçalves and guest Chef João Rodrigues of ‘Feitoria’, a Michelin starred restaurant based in Portugal. The […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World
13 July 2017
Portugal has registered the second lowest birth rate among the 28 member states of the European Union (EU), a report by Eurostat, the EU official office of statistics, has revealed. Portugal had around 87 thousand births in 2016, which represents a rate of 8.4 births per 1,000 persons, the second lowest rate in the EU, […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
13 July 2017
The first direct flight linking Portugal to China was launched in Lisbon to start July 25. The new route will originate in Hangzhou, capital city of Zhejiang Province, with a stopover in Beijing to its final destination in Lisbon. There will be three flights between Portugal and China per week. Carried out by Beijing based […]
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12 July 2017
The City Council of Ponta Delgada municipally honored José de Almeida, the historic leader of the Azores Liberation Front (FLA), with a memorial plaque marking the house where he was born in Chão dos Medeiros, Remédios, Bretanha, São Miguel island. Presided by the mayor of Ponta Delgada, José Manuel Bolieiro, the ceremony was a posthumous […]
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11 July 2017
TAP, the national Portuguese airline, has started flying to Toronto, Canada, in June. The service brings TAP back to Toronto for the first time since 1994. “Toronto in Canada will be the airline’s sixth route to North America, a market where TAP carried more than 633.000 passengers last year, equivalent to a growth of 122%”, […]
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