12 September 2013
The number of births in Portugal dipped again in the first half of this year according to statistics released by the National Program on Early Diagnosis, the newborn vaccination national program. The 40,008 children born in this period represented a year-on-year fall of 3,830 births even. The total of births in 2012 came in at […]
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12 September 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Portugal’s nearest Arab neighbor, Morocco, is increasingly feeling repercussions from the crises in North Africa, as are Portugal’s EU partners along the shores of the Mediterranean. Morocco is a predominantly Sunni Muslim country, the same as Syria, but like many other Sunni states it has little sympathy for the regime […]
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10 September 2013
Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth, in partnership with the University Press of New England (UPNE), have launched the publication of Another City Upon a Hill: A New England Memoir by Joseph A. Conforti, a searching portrait of a city battered by the collapse of the textile industry woven into a spirited coming of age story. […]
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10 September 2013
The Portuguese people 85th out of 156 countries in the nation’s “happiness scores” according to the 2013 World Happiness Report released Monday by the United Nations. The report shows a decrease of 0,35 points, from rank 73rd to rank 85th, in the Portuguese “happiness score” compared to the previous UN survey taken between 2007 and 2010. […]
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09 September 2013
The film “The Golden Cage,” a story of based on the lives of a Portuguese immigrant family in France, was nominated for the European Film Awards. The awards will be announced on December 7, in Berlin, Germany. The film was directed by Ruben Alves, himself the son of Portuguese immigrants in France. Hugo Gélin and Jean-André […]
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09 September 2013
Portuguese Airline SATA and the Beacon Hill Athletic Clubs announced a unique promotion today. Existing and prospective members at the Boston-area chain of clubs can enter to win a trip for two to the Azores for one week. While that may sound like an unusual partnership – the pairing makes perfect sense. “Beacon Hill Athletic […]
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