20 April 2014
By Len Port, Contributor(*) Hunger in Portugal is widespread, mostly far from obvious, sometimes cloaked in shame. Among those taking concerted action against hunger is an American with a dynamic project he is developing throughout Lisbon and spreading to urban areas in other regions of the country. Hunter Halder, 62, originally from a village near […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal
18 April 2014
The Portuguese Studies Program at Rhode Island College (RIC) has inducted three outstanding students and three honorary members into the Sigma Chapter of the Phi Lambda Beta Portuguese Honor Society. The ceremony also included recognition of the 2014 recipients of the John A. and Mary V. Lima Scholarship in Portuguese Studies. The National Portuguese Honor […]
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17 April 2014
The Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, at Brown University, Providence, RI, is hosting a conversation and lunch event with Portuguese writer and artist, valter hugo mãe, to be held on Wednesday, April 23, at 12pm. Born in Angola in 1971, valter hugo mãe is the penname of Valter Hugo Lemos, a Portuguese language writer […]
Posted in Angola, Arts&Culture, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, Music, Organizations, Painting, People, Photography, Portugal, World
15 April 2014
A bill was introduced in the House of Representatives, by Portuguese American Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), proposing to relocate AFRICOM’s headquarters from Stuttgart, Germany, to the continental United States, with the provision that Lajes Air Field, on Terceira, Azores, be made into AFRICOM’s forward operating base. The bill also proposes that throughout the transfer process, […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, Terceira, World
14 April 2014
Portugal, with a tax on wages of 41.1%, was the country of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with the largest tax increase in labor income, in 2013, according to a new OECD report released on Friday. Portugal had a 3.5 percentage point income tax increase, higher than the average increase of 0.2 […]
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14 April 2014
The European Commission has confirmed that the international financial assistance to Portugal comes to a close on May 17th, ending the 3-year bailout program, it was reported on Monday. In a prepared statement, the European Commission has said that, “There is no political consideration behind any technical extension to the Portuguese program that ends effectively […]
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