28 May 2016
By Len Port, Contributor (*) The lawyer for Kate and Gerry McCann has filed an appeal in Portugal’s Supreme Court following last month’s Appellate Court decision in favor of Gonçalo Amaral. This is the latest move in the long-running civil action over the former lead detective’s controversial book about Madeleine McCann’s disappearance in 2007. The […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Life Style, Portugal, Travel
24 May 2016
A protocol was signed between the Government of the Azores and Google to optimize the Azores as a tourism destination, with the goal of reaching 200 million potential tourists over the next three years, the regional Tourism and Transport Deputy, Vítor Fraga, revealed Monday. “This partnership will be crucial to enhance the awareness vis-à-vis our […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Travel
22 May 2016
This astonishingly erotic and ironic novel is set in vaguely medieval times, but the tone is starkly modern. A young gentleman is travelling on horseback, and stops by a river to rest and bathe. As he is lying there naked after bathing, three maidens appear and, trying to avert their gaze from the young man’s […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Education, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal
21 May 2016
Rhode Island College’s Portuguese studies program inducted five students and three honorary members into the RIC Sigma Chapter of Phi Lambda Beta, National Portuguese Honor Society, on April 22. The annual honors event also presented two awards funded by the John A. and Mary V. Lima Scholarship in Portuguese Studies Endowment Fund. The National Portuguese […]
Posted in Awards, Azores, Community, Education, Featured, Portugal, Scholarships
20 May 2016
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Portugal has demonstrated its leading role in clean energy by supplying the country’s entire electricity needs solely from renewal sources for a record four days in a row. It is being acclaimed internationally as a landmark in the shift from fossil fuels. The country’s consumption was fully covered for 107 […]
Posted in Featured, Home & Garden, Life Style, Politics, Portugal
20 May 2016
The new president elect of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has stated that he is open to revise the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990. The main purpose of the agreement was to create a unified orthography for the Portuguese language in the countries where Portuguese is the official language, most notably the variants between […]
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