24 September 2016
The Dr. Edward Leitão Memorial Scholarship Fund is now accepting applications for scholarships from Portuguese-American medical students and physicians in training, following the fund’s goal of filling the need among the community for Portuguese-speaking medical professionals. The fund is offering up to two scholarships of $1,500 each, and the deadline for submission of applications is […]
Posted in Awards, Community, Education, Featured, Heritage, Scholarships
22 September 2016
Interview by Millicent Borges Accardi, Contributor (*) A Portuguese-American writer, author Margie Vieira was born in Northern California and grew up on a dairy farm. Her family has roots in Terceira, Azores, from where her parents immigrated to California in the 1960’s. Ms. Vieira is happily married to who she claims is “a most patient man.” Together, they […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, Interviews, Life Style, People, Terceira
20 September 2016
By C. Naseer Ahmad, Contributor (*) The Atlantic Council – a Washington based think tank – presented Portugal’s Minister of the Sea, Ms. Ana Paula Vitorino to discuss strategic areas of cooperation between two natural allies. “Bilateral ties date from the earliest years of the United State” and “Following the American Revolutionary War, Portugal was the […]
Posted in Azores, Conferences, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World
19 September 2016
The President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, will briefly address on Tuesday, September 20, the United Nations General Assembly’s High-Level Meeting on Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants. The intervention by the President of Portugal, taking place late in the afternoon, is followed by a reception hosted by the President of the United States […]
Posted in Community, Conferences, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World
07 September 2016
Fraud, scandal, theft of royal funds, official graft, and cover-ups: these are the subjects of the 1612 exposé written by Diogo do Couto in his Dialog of a Veteran Soldier. Couto revealed too much and as a result, this work had to wait more than 175 years until its first publication in 1790. This classic […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Damão, Diu, Featured, Goa, Politics, Portugal, World
05 September 2016
The history of Brazil is marked by the transfer of the Portuguese crown to Rio de Janeiro and the declaration of its independence in 1822 whereas African colonies underwent the Colonial War in the 1960s and 1970s in the context of the Portuguese Estado Novo, while Macau, which was the last European Colony in Asia, […]
Posted in Angola, Arts&Culture, Books, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Featured, Film, Guiné-Bissau, Heritage, Macau, Mozambique, Politics, Portugal, São Tomé and Prince, World
