11 December 2011
The Portuguese national broadcaster Rádio Televisão Portuguesa (RTP) has announced its forthcoming Festival da Canção, for the 2012 Eurovision Festival contest, will be held on March 10, 2012. The winner will represent Portugal at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Baku, following Azerbaijan’s win in the 2011 Contest with Ell & Nikki’s song “Running […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Entertainment, Music
09 December 2011
Portuguese American pop singer Katy Perry is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend December 10. This is the second time this year that Perry has been on the show. “I’ve only ever hosted, like, dinner parties and birthday parties. This is a bit more than that,” she joked on set with MTV News. “It’s not […]
Posted in Entertainment, Music, People
09 December 2011
The Civil Aviation Pilots’ Union (SPAC), representing TAP Air Portugal pilots, announced late Thursday the national strike planned for December 9-12 has been cancelled. The weekend strike would cancel 660 flights and strand about 100,000 travelers. In a statement to the press, SPAC administrators decided to cancel the first block of the strike, because a […]
08 December 2011
The Professional School of Praia da Vitória, Terceira, in partnership with the European Association of Hotel and Tourism Schools (AEHT) is holding the II International Chocolate Festival on Terceira island taking place December 9-11. The main objective of the event is for students and teachers to meet, share experiences and learn about the art of […]
Posted in Azores, Food & Wine, Terceira, World
07 December 2011
The Portuguese Civil Aviation Pilots’ Union (SPAC), representing TAP Air Portugal pilots, said Wednesday recent negotiations with the company made no progress and that pilots will go ahead with an eight-day strike over the holiday period. SPAC has called a strike for December 9-12 and January 3-6. It represents 718 of the airline’s about 800 […]
07 December 2011
The Portuguese multinational OutSystems picked up a “Cool Tool Award” from the American publication EdTech Digest, in the Green Solution category, the company announced Tuesday. Provider of the industry leading Agile Platform application development environment, OutSystems received the award for an energy management application delivered at the University of Aveiro in concert with their implementation […]
