22 November 2011
Portugal’s “Laços de Sangue” (“Blood Ties”) won the EMMY for “Best Telenovela” at the 39th Annual International Emmy Awards ceremony held Monday at the Sofitel in New York City. The show ran for 322 episodes on Lisbon-based SIC television network ending in October 2011. “Laços de Sangue” features actresses Diana Chaves, Joana Santos and actor […]
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22 November 2011
Portugal’s dire economic and financial plight is spurring a new wave of emigration, including an older stratum of people and new destinations, a senior government official said Tuesday. “We know, namely through the increase of administrative movement through our consulates and through the opening of new (bank) accounts, that there’s a very large increase” in […]
21 November 2011
Many thousands of workers are expected to participate in the general strike called for next Thursday by CGTP and UGT the two largest Portuguese labor union confederations. Demonstrations are planned in many cities on strike day, with attention centered on a march and rally set for Lisbon, the capital. Union leaders and 15,000 union activists […]
Posted in Portugal
21 November 2011
The Massachusetts Bristol County Sheriff’s Office, in partnership with the Government of the Azores, organized a Thanksgiving dinner celebration, held in Ponta Delgada Sunday, dedicated to the many deportees sent back to the islands from the United States. Thomas M. Hodgson, Bristol County Sheriff, travelled to Ponta Delgada last week with a team of volunteers […]
20 November 2011
After a lifting operation involving a crane, a 6ft male conger eel has been released into the wild so he can find love in the deep waters of the Azores where, hopefully, he will find a mate to reproduce. The conger eel, called Rip, left Macduff Marine Aquarium in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to swim an estimated […]
Posted in Azores
19 November 2011
The Portuguese Cork Association (APCOR) won the Special Environmental Award at the 2011 PRWeek Awards, promoted by New York based PRWeek Magazine, for its cork promotion campaign “I Love Natural Cork.” The objective of the campaign was to increase, broaden and secure the market for natural cork as the wine closure of choice in the […]
