24 September 2012
President José Eduardo dos Santos is to be sworn President of Angola, for a five-year term in office, Wednesday, following the Angolan Constitutional Court’s announcement that all appeals presented by opposition parties were dismissed as groundless. The official final results of the 31 August polls gave dos Santos and his MPLA party 71.28% of the […]
21 September 2012
Tourists from the United States are the fastest growing group visiting Portugal, according to the Portuguese national tourist board, Lusa reported. The number of US visitors who came to the country in the first six months of the year was up 7.5% compared to a year earlier, at 135,000, putting the US ninth in terms […]
20 September 2012
Portuguese Americans in the US are buying more products from their homeland in a bid to help it overcome its economic crisis, according to the government official responsible for liaising with Portuguese citizens abroad, Lusa reported Thursday. At the end of a four-day visit to the US, Secretary of State for Communities, José Cesário, said he […]
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18 September 2012
By Richard Simas, Contributor (*) José Luís Peixoto is a conduit for emotion. Sensations emerge immediately in the opening lines of his fiction, poetry, and non-fiction as they do in his voice the moment he begins reading or talking about writing. Whether evoking the starkly luminous Alentejo landscape of his youth or joyfully holding his recently […]
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17 September 2012
Workers at the Portuguese oil refineries in Sines and Matosinhos went out on strike Monday. About 90% of workers had joined the protests expected to last for the next three days. The protests are against “unacceptable” changes to collective bargaining agreements which include a pay rise for workers of “just” 1%, while the company made a […]
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14 September 2012
Portugal has the third highest level of household income inequality in the European Union, behind Latvia and Lithuania, according to a study by the consultancy firm Accenture. Portugal’s richest 20% notch up six times the level of income of the poorest 20%. The Gini Index measuring the discrepancies between the rich and poor comes in […]
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