03 February 2014
Portuguese fado vocalist Ricardo Ribeiro will be performing “Puro Fado”, February 5, at the Elebash Hall at The CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, NYC. For the first time in New York City, he will be accompanied by renowned guitarist Pedro Joia. Ricardo Alexandre Paulo Ribeiro, 32, is an internationally respected master […]
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02 February 2014
Professor Michael Baum of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth was appointed board member of the Executive Board of Lisbon based Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) by Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho. Professor Baum, who teaches political science and specializes in comparative politics, will take post February 11. He will be on a one-year unpaid leave […]
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01 February 2014
Review by Juan José Morales (*) The Memoirs and Memorials of Jacques de Coutre: Security, Trade and Society in 16th- and 17th-century Southeast Asia by Peter Borschberg (editor) and Roopanjali Roy (translator) Jacobus van de Koutere, or Jacques de Coutre, born in Bruges around 1572, left war-torn Flanders for the Portuguese colonies in the Far […]
Posted in Books, Damão, Diu, Featured, Goa, Macau, Politics, Portugal, Travel, World
30 January 2014
Projects by Portuguese architects won four of the top prizes out of 14 categories in the 2014 Archdaily Building of the Year Awards, organized by the online publication, according to the list published on Thursday. In the Health Architecture category, the architects Francisco and Manuel Aires Mateus were awarded the top prize for the new building […]
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30 January 2014
Authorities in Britain are being tight-lipped at the outset of what could become a prolonged historical wrangle involving the world’s two oldest allies. A unique collection of books plundered during the darkest days of the centuries-old treaty between Portugal and Britain has been cosseted in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford for more […]
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29 January 2014
Portugal will allow the United States to use a port in the Azores for the transshipping of chemical materials from Syria, as an option, said the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rui Machete, in Washington, Wednesday. In a statement at the end of a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, he said that […]
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