15 April 2013
The President of Portugal, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, leaves for Colombia Monday for a four-day visit with an economic and cultural mission. Although he is scheduled to arrive in Colombia the same day, his official agenda only starts Tuesday with political and institutional meetings. After Colombia, Cavaco Silva will head on to Peru on Thursday. The […]
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13 April 2013
The “Exploring the Portuguese Diaspora Conference” was awarded a Chairman’s Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). “These are exciting news and an incentive for scientific research on the Portuguese Diaspora globally,” said conference co-organizer, Professor Dulce Maria Soares Scott of Anderson University, Indianapolis, IN. Based in Washington, D.C., the NEH is one […]
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11 April 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) Incredibly, Portugal has plunged from being a role model in its handling of the debit crisis to a potential basket case that may have to go begging for a second bailout. Some analysts say events here could instigate even worse and wider mayhem elsewhere in the eurozone. The current international […]
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11 April 2013
By Michael Colson, Contributor (*) Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is considered to be a great European intellectual and a preeminent Portuguese modernist. Born in Lisbon, he grew up in South Africa and had an English education at St. Joseph’s, a Dominican convent school, in Durban. In 1901, he passed the Cape School Higher Examination with distinction, […]
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10 April 2013
Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos is the recipient of the 2012 Personality of the Year Award from the Foreign Press Association (AIEP) for her remarkable career. This is the 24th year the AIEP prize has been awarded to a Portuguese personality or institution that has helped promote Portugal internationally. The award was voted on at the end of […]
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10 April 2013
Portuguese landscape architect Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles, 91, is the recipient of the 2013 Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award, by the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), which represents the worldwide profession of landscape architecture. Established in 2004, the award is the highest honor that the International Federation of Landscape Architects can bestow upon a landscape architect. […]
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