28 April 2013
Czech driver Jan Kopecký won Saturday the 48th SATA Rallye Azores, in round four of the FIA European Rally Championship (ERC) season. It was Kopecký’s third win in three starts in the ERC competition. Alongside navigator Pavel Dresle, Kopecký drove a Michelin-shod Škoda Motorsport Fabia Super 2000 to victory. The winner, he has increased his […]
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28 April 2013
The EuroMillions winning ticket worth €32 million ($42 million) was purchased in Portugal, according to the raffle results for Friday April 26, 2013. The winning combination was 11-16-24-38-40-2-5. The odds were fairly slim, with any given entry having a 1 in 116.5 million chance of winning the jackpot. The result gave Portugal its fourth jackpot win […]
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26 April 2013
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMD) Department of Portuguese and Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture announced a lecture – The Book, the Author and the Protest: Revisiting “Two Portuguese Communities in New England (1923),” – by Dr. Cristiana Bastos, an anthropologist and senior researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon. […]
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26 April 2013
Six Rhode Island College (RIC) students and four community members were recently inducted into the Sigma Chapter of the Phi Lambda Beta Portuguese Honor Society. RIC students Christopher Barbosa, Vanessa Branco, Filipe Fernandes, Carlos Neves, Stacey Saraiva and Liana Viveiros were admitted to the honor society based on their scholastic performances (a minimum 3.25 grade […]
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25 April 2013
By Rita Dourado, Contributor (*) When you arrive to Portugal, you arrive in a country that, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), doesn’t seem to be the 7th slowest economy in the world. Portugal causes a good first impression. It is true that the economy has stopped growing, as the country is facing domestic […]
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24 April 2013
By Len Port, Contributor (*) The revolution of 25th April 1974 transformed the political and social set-up and gave great hope to the people of Portugal. Thirty-nine years on, hope is in short supply. It has evaporated in the face of the intractable economic crisis. What has gone wrong? During the decade before 1974, the […]
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