08 January 2014
Portugal is withdrawing their football team and some high-ranking athletes from the Lusofonia Games 2014, to be held January 18-29 in Goa, The Times of India reported Wednesday. The Lusofonia Games [Jogos da Lusofonia], similar to the Commonwealth Games for former British colonies, involve athletes from the former Portuguese colonies. Goa was ruled by the […]
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05 January 2014
Eusébio, 71, one of the greatest soccer players of all time, died Sunday, at home in Lisbon, of heart failure. After undergoing a heart operation six years ago, he had been admitted to hospital several times over the last year for heart and respiratory problems. Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, known to his fans as the […]
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27 December 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) At a time when Britain is worrying about an influx of workers from poor European Union countries, Portugal is enthusiastically encouraging rich entrepreneurs from outside the EU. Romanian and Bulgarians, especially those likely to seek welfare benefits, are causing panic in Britain because immigration restrictions are to be lifted on […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Madeira, People, Portugal, World
24 December 2013
Portuguese actor Diogo Morgado plays the title role in “Son Of God” a big screen motion picture to be released nationwide on February 28, 2014. The film is a production of 20th Century Fox, together with Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, producers of the The Bible, the History Channel 10-hour mini-series, aired on cable TV early […]
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23 December 2013
Portuguese expressionist painter, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, is among 10 famous people who had a crater on planet Mercury named after them by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the global authority for all planetary and satellite nomenclature. Beatles’ legend John Lennon, American author Truman Capote, German author Erich Maria Remarque, and French composer Hector […]
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21 December 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) The approach of Christmas brings fresh worries to Portugal and its hopes of returning to something like financial stability next year. Once again, the biggest threat to the government’s efforts to exit the country’s bailout – and to the continued existence of the present government itself – comes not from […]
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