22 May 2014
Alfredo Leitão won first prize, in the category of “Young Artist-Euphonium,” at the 2014 International Tuba Euphonium Conference (ITEC 2014) competition hosted by Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. The competition features the world’s best in the field. Alfredo Leitão, 18, is a student of euphonium at the Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa, Portugal, under professor […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Featured, Heritage, Music, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
20 May 2014
By Len Port, Contributor(*) A foreign community of workers employed by a Danish company has just come to the end of another season of harvesting a specialized crop in Portugal. They are now on their way to picking fields in Denmark. Since the beginning of March, more than 100 workers from various European countries, mostly […]
Posted in Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
20 May 2014
Portugal is among the top ten countries where it is safest for newly-born babies with one of the lowest neonatal mortality rates in the world, The Lancet reported on Tuesday. While it was already well known that Portugal had one of the best infant mortality rates (children under 5), what The Lancet proved was that […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
20 May 2014
The 2014 Festas do Senhor Santo Cristo dos Milagres, [Holy Feast of Christ of Miracles] is taking place in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, starting Friday May 23 through May 29. The festival is a movable holiday occurring on different dates each year to coincide with the fifth Sunday after Easter. The event will be […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Religion, Travel, World
18 May 2014
Reviewed by Bill Purves* Portugal was neutral in World War II, and the Axis powers were anxious that it should remain so. As a result, even after Timor Leste’s neutrality was ignored by the Allies, the Japanese continued to respect that of Macau. That made Britain’s pre-existing Macau consulate the only one to remain in […]
Posted in Books, East Timor, Featured, Macau, Politics, Portugal, World
17 May 2014
On May 17, the Museum of Horta, Faial, is opening an exhibit celebrating the 95th anniversary of the first aviation crossing of the Atlantic by US Navy seaplane NC-4, which stopped at Horta harbor on May 17, 1919. The historic mission had began with three identical aircraft, NC-1, NC-3, and NC-4 departing from Naval Air […]
Posted in Azores, Faial, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal
