06 September 2011
Living PlanIT, the Portuguese smart city initiative underway, was selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers of 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported. Steve Lewis, a former Microsoft executive, is behind the Living PlanIT project to build a brand new smart-city in Paredes, Portugal. Smart cities have intelligence and remote sensors built […]
06 September 2011
A team of Portuguese researchers have developed clothing that repel mosquitoes. The product was created by NG Wear, along with Citeve in partnership with the Portuguese Textile and Clothing Industries Technology Center and the Portuguese Institute for Tropical Medicine. A collection of mosquito repellant T-shits, named “No Mosquito,” is now available to provide protection over […]
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05 September 2011
The Portuguese language is the 6th language most useful for business, according to the last Bloomberg Rankings. Portuguese, the official language of 8 countries, is the 6th most spoken language in the world by 176 million in 33 countries. Mandarin Chinese is the top language for business worldwide after English the primary language for business, spoken by 845 […]
04 September 2011
The Regional Government of the Azores, through the Department for the Azorean Communities (DRC), is sponsoring the 1st International Symposium on Human Rights and Quality of Life in the Portuguese-speaking Communities in the United States and Canada to be held November 9-10, in Cambridge (MA). Craig Mello, 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Professor of […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Heritage, Organizations
03 September 2011
At least 24 people were arrested over the weekend for trying to stage a rally calling for more democracy and the resignation of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos. The rally, organized on Saturday in Luanda by a youth movement, gathered about 200 at Independence Square, in Luanda when the police stepped in and made […]
03 September 2011
The 29th annual Portuguese Folkore Festival organized by Magic Valley Portuguese American resident community, is taking place September 3-4, at the Twin Falls City Park,. The festival is featuring the Mar Bravo Folkdance Group, from Casa dos Açores, Hilmar, California. The event includes a multiple array of folklore dancing, singing, traditional costumes and authentic Portuguese […]
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