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
13 August 2012
A team of researchers from the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC) of the University of Coimbra, Portugal have identified an “bnormal presence of autophagic vacuoles is evident in brains of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), in contrast to the rare detection of autophagosomes in normal brain.” In a study published by Human Molecular […]
Posted in Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, Spotlight, World
12 August 2012
Travelers from around the world voted boutique “Lisbon Hostel” the title of world’s best hostel, according to Hostelworld.com Hoscar Awards. Four other Lisbon-based hostels also made the top 10 honors list, namely: Lisboa Central Hostel (3rd place); Living Lounge Hostel (4th place); Goodnight Hostel (5th place) and Rossio Hostel (6th place). The top 10 world list of […]
Posted in Awards, Featured, Organizations, Portugal, Travel
