01 May 2012
Thousands of Azoreans living abroad face ruined plans for the 2012 Santo Cristo Religious Festivities due to a labor dispute standoff with pilots flying SATA International and the SATA Group. On April 12, SATA International pilots announced a three-phased nine-day strike planned for April and May. On April 25, the first stage of teh strike […]
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01 May 2012
Stylish Vila Joya Restaurant, located in Praia da Galé, Albufeira, Algarve, was voted into the 2012 list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Placed 46th on the 2012 list, it climbed 35 places on the 2011 list , becoming the first Portuguese restaurant to join the list. The first place went to “Noma” of Denmark, […]
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30 April 2012
Portuguese company, Intelligent Sensing Anywhere (ISA), based in Coimbra, Portugal, specializing in Telemetry and Remote Assets Management, was nominated “Cool Vendor for Smart City Applications” by Gartner Inc.. The nomination lists ISA in the Gartner’s annual “Cool Vendors 2012” report which ranks the most innovative IT solutions companies in the world. Launched in 2004, the […]
27 April 2012
Member of Parliament José Ribeiro e Castro called Thursday for a new parliamentary inquiry into the 1981 airplane crash, known as the “Camarate Affair,” that killed late Portuguese Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro, Lusa news agency reported. The move follows the purported “confession” of Francisco Farinha Simões, a man jailed for kidnapping, who claims he organized […]
27 April 2012
Tennis player Francisco Dias, freshman at George Washington University (GWU), was named both the league’s Most Outstanding Performer and Most Outstanding Rookie Performer, according to a vote of the league’s 12 head coaches. Dias is the fifth Colonial to be named Most Outstanding Rookie Performer as he heads to his first-ever NCAA Tournament having won […]
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26 April 2012
By Millicent Borges Accardi ♦ Linette Escobar is a Portuguese-American writer based in California with roots in the Azores. Although her first home is in one of her favorite cities, San Francisco, her second home is in Thailand, near a little beach in Bang Niang that she says has “the most beautiful sunsets in the entire […]
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