20 February 2012
Commuters and travelers across Portugal will begin feeling the impact of a transportation strike staged to start Monday at the evening rush hour by train engineers at CP, the national railway network. CP spokeswoman Ana Portela said Monday that the 24-hour strike scheduled for Tuesday would force the cancellation of about 81% of the scheduled 841 […]
20 February 2012
Portugal’s unemployment hit a record level of 14% in the final quarter of last year, according to figures released by the National Statistics Institute (INE) reported by LUSA. Around 50,700 men and 30,600 women lost their jobs in the final quarter of last year. The new record represents a total of 770,000 people out of […]
19 February 2012
Portuguese film director Miguel Gomes, 40, received Friday the Alfred Bauer Prize, at 62nd Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival), for “Tabu” a black-and-white unconventional film which, according to the critics, is a ”work of particular innovation” that “broadens the horizons of the art of filmmaking.” Also at the Berlinale, Portuguese director João Salaviza, 28, won […]
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18 February 2012
Pope Benedict XVI elevated D. Manuel Monteiro de Castro, 73, to the prestigious College of Cardinals in an elaborate ceremony at the Vatican on Saturday. Born in Santa Eufémia de Prazins, Guimarães, mainland Portugal, D. Manuel was elevated to the position along with 21 other new cardinals, including Archbishop Timothy Dolan, the head Archdiocese of […]
Posted in Organizations, People, Portugal, Religion
16 February 2012
Two Portuguese teams are among the 60 world finalists for the YouTube Space Lab: Space Experiment Competition For Teens. One of the Portuguese teams is formed by João Pereira and Vasco Ferreira freshmen at the Faculty of Bio-Engineering at the University of Porto. The other team is formed by Daniel Carvalho, Guilherme Aresta, and Miguel […]
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15 February 2012
By David Mendonça (*) ♦ Ana Moura brought an eclectic but strongly traditional fado experience to the Zeiterion Theatre in New Bedford on Saturday night (4-Feb), the first stop on her 2012 North American tour. If you don’t know the fado or are curious about it–and even if you do know the fado–this is the tour […]
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