08 March 2012
Over 40,000 Portuguese have undersigned a petition demanding the resignation of President Cavaco Silva. The petition was presented Wednesday in Parliament. According to Nuno Luis Marreiros, one of the cosignatories, the “Request to dismiss the President,” is now a “citizens’ collective document.” The movement started on Facebook following the President complaining about a drop in […]
07 March 2012
Portugal ranked “low” among five levels, at 77 points, on the Social Watch Gender Equity Index (GEI) at the same level as France, Estonia, Lithuania, Moldavia and Ruanda. The United States ranked lower at 71 on the GEI. The five levels according to which the index measures the gender gap are: “critical”, “very low”, “low”, […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, Portugal, World
07 March 2012
According to a Traveler’s Digest published list, Portuguese men rank 4th among the top 10 world’s sexiest and best looking after Stockholm (Sweden), New York City ( United States), and Amsterdam (Netherlands). The selection by country’s capital was presented “entirely by a woman’s perspective” and offers the following : “Portuguese men tend to be worldly, well-educated and brimming […]
Posted in Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, Travel, World
06 March 2012
Portuguese American award-winning photographer João Carlos was awarded third place, in the “Action Category,” at the Digital Photographer of the Year Awards 2011 (DPOTY) held by London based Imagine Publishing company. “Anything is Possible” is the tittle of the winning series which objective, according to João Carlos was “To capture the power, weightlessness and dynamism of […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Community, Featured, Interviews, People, Photography, Portugal, Spotlight, World
05 March 2012
Portuguese neuroscientist Rui Costa from the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown and principal investigator of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC), in Portugal, and a team of neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have demonstrated that the brain is more flexible and trainable than previously thought. Their research, published […]
Posted in Education, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
04 March 2012
The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF), dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease, has granted Portuguese researchers, Carlos Palmeira and Rodrigo Cunha, the “Rapid Response Innovation Award.” Both researchers are affiliated with the Center for Neurosciences and Cell Biology at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Carlos Palmeira is an Associate Professor in the Department […]
Posted in Awards, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
