14 September 2011
The world premiere of Heaven’s Mirror: A Portuguese Voyage will take place at the Santa Rosa International Film Festival in Kenwood, California, on September 17th , and in Santa Rosa, California, on September 18th. It took six years for Joshua Dylan Mellars to direct and produce this Portuguese themed documentary, a film aspiring to capturing […]
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13 September 2011
In a live telecast that reached over a billion viewers around the world, Miss Angola, Leila Lopes 25, was crowned Miss Universe 2011 at the Creditcard Hall in São Paulo, Brasil, defeating the competition from 88 contestants. Leila Luliana da Costa Vieira Lopes was crowned Miss Universe Monday night, smoothly handling an interview question about […]
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13 September 2011
Young professionals will leave the Azores in the near future to seek job opportunities abroad in richer European countries or will “rediscover the Americas,” warned the Luso-Canadian immigration expert José Carlos Teixeira, at the 16th International Metropolis Conference underway in Ponta Delgada, September 12-16. “Azorean young professionals will have to leave. I do not see […]
12 September 2011
A documentary film about the life of José Saramago, the 1998 Nobel Prize of Literature, and his lifelong companion Pilar del Rio, will represent Portugal at the 2012 Oscars in Hollywood. A co-production of Fernando Meireles (Brazil) and Pedro Almodóvar (Spain), the documentary titled “José e Pilar ” will compete for the Best Foreign Film […]
10 September 2011
President Barack Obama invited Azores based daily newspaper Açoriano Oriental to participate at the commemorative ceremonies of the September 11 anniversary. The invitation was extended to a select number of newspapers wordwide. Açoriano Oriental, with 175 years of continuous publication, is the oldest Portuguese daily newspaper and one of the oldest newspapers in the world. […]
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10 September 2011
Portuguese nationals in Europe have the most positive image of the United States and like most European Union citizens they believe the United States should exert strong leadership in world affairs, revealed the annual “Transatlantic Trends 2011” public opinion survey. Of all participating countries, the highest proportion of positive responses regarding the United States image […]
