01 March 2014
By Len Port, Contributor(*) Portugal’s burgeoning ‘Golden Visa’ program could see a huge upsurge in applications, particularly from wealthy Chinese, as a result of the recent scrapping of a controversial investor scheme in Canada. News of this comes as new measures are about to be introduced to stop alleged abuse of the program from within […]
Posted in Azores, Canada, Community, Featured, Madeira, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal
28 February 2014
Portugal’s footwear industry is to invest Euro20 million this year and next year in marketing its products abroad, to establish itself as “the most sophisticated in the world.” The goal is to double exports over the next decade. At a meeting with journalists on Thursday in Porto, the executive director of the industry association, APICCAPS, […]
Posted in Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
26 February 2014
The University of Porto, Portugal, is among the world’s 200 best universities ranked in seven of the 30 fields of study by the QS World University Rankings by Subject, one of the leading international rankings for higher education. In the report published by Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings, more than 3,000 universities and 10,000 courses […]
Posted in Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, Portugal
26 February 2014
Portuguese born Diogo Morgado is the latest actor performing the role of Jesus in the new film “Son of God” produced by 20th Century Fox to be released in theaters nationwide February 28. The ambitious motion picture tells the life of Jesus expanding on the 10-hour mini-series, The Bible, produced last year by Mark Burnett and […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Community, Entertainment, Featured, Film, Heritage, People, Portugal, World
24 February 2014
The Portuguese American Citizenship Project (PACP) has announced, in a prepared statement, the appointment of Dr. Frank F. Sousa as the newest member of its Board of Directors. Sousa has a long history of supporting causes in the Portuguese community, and is the Founding Director of the Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research at […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal
24 February 2014
By Carolina Matos, Editor (*) The Furnas Valley is home to the Furnas parish, a small isolated rustic community of about 900 dwellings. Set within a 6 km diameter crater of a dormant caldera, the valley is surrounded by towering hills with geysers and fumaroles nested within the lush green landscape. The caldera is part […]
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