19 August 2012
Portuguese junior ballet dancer, Valentina dos Santos Codinha, 15, won 3rd place at the 13th Youth America Grand Prix. Valentina is a student at The National Conservatory Dance School [Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional] of Lisbon, Portugal. The competition is held annually around the world and in New York City, and is open to […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Featured, People, Portugal, World
17 August 2012
Starting with the 2012-13 school year, incoming eighth-graders at High School (MHS), New York State, will have the option to learn Portuguese as foreign language. Mineola High School (MHS) currently offers Spanish, French, Italian and Latin as foreign languages. MHS will become the first public school in New York State to offer Portuguese as a […]
Posted in Community, Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People
17 August 2012
Centered about 1,925 miles (1,925 kilometers) west of the Azores, Gordon became a hurricane Friday. The seventh named storm of the season, Gordon will bring wind and rain to the Azores islands located 970 miles west of Lisbon, Portugal. The storm, which had weakened slightly early Friday, is expected to approach the Azores late Sunday […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Santa Maria, São Miguel, Spotlight
16 August 2012
The underemployment rate in Portugal, which includes people excluded from the labor market apart from the unemployed, has hit 23.3% according to figures extrapolated from the National Statistics Institute (INE). The numbers show that in the three months, up to the end of June, there were 827,000 people out of work, about 15% of the active […]
14 August 2012
Survey results released Monday show that 69% of Portuguese university graduates intended to move abroad after finishing their degrees. The survey conducted by the Porto Academic Federation, representing students’ unions, revealed that students surveyed intend to leave Portugal for “better labor conditions.” Students in the areas of engineering, technology, architecture and the arts are among […]
Posted in Angola, Brazil, Education, Featured, People, Politics, Portugal, World
13 August 2012
By Millicent Accardi, Contributor (*) I first discovered the work of Philip Graham in The Moon Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon, a travel memoir published in 2009 about the sabbatical year he spent living abroad in Lisbon with his family. At the start of a recent blog post by Graham is this quote from […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Books, Community, Featured, Heritage, Interviews, People, Portugal, Travel, World
