18 August 2011
Ricardo Mestre, 27, is the winner of the 73rd Portugal Tour. He won stage four of the race after holding off Hernani Broco and Ricardo Vilela on the final sprint. Started in 1927 and held in Portugal annually, the international bicycle competition is a long distance road men’s race for professionals during a two-week span. […]
17 August 2011
The Waterloo Region Museum, based in the Cambridge-Ontario area, Canada, has reached out to the resident Portuguese community seeking donations of items for a display. The goal is to showcase the Portuguese immigrant experience to the region. According to Curator Tom Reitz, the museum has set aside an entire wall panel and a display case […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Community, Heritage, Organizations
17 August 2011
The UN General Secretariat has launched the new “Young Professionals Program” (YPP) open to highly qualified international candidates who are ready to launch a professional career as civil servants across the globe. Portugal is included in the 2011 list of participating countries which is published annually and varies from year to year. Other Portuguese speaking countries […]
Posted in Angola, Azores, Brazil, Featured, Guiné-Bissau, Madeira, Mozambique, Organizations, World
15 August 2011
Portuguese teaching at the heritage language schools in the United States and Canada may be compromised if Lisbon-based Instituto Camões decides not to renew teachers’ licenses, reported Lusa news agency. In a comment to Lusa, Ana Paula Laborinho, President of Instituto Camões, said the institution “is unable to resolve this matter” and referred the matter […]
Posted in Community, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, Politics
15 August 2011
Last week, Portuguese-American pop singer, Katy Perry, became the second artist in the history of Billboards’ Pop Songs chart to take five tracks from a single album to “Number One” with her single hit “Last Friday Night” from her last album “Teenage Dream.” Katy is now set to score her fifth straight week No. 1 […]
Posted in Azores, Entertainment, Faial, Featured, Music, People
14 August 2011
From a total of about 46,000 law practitioners in Portugal, 27,000 were women, according to figures released by the Directorate-General for Justice Policy (DGPJ). In 2010, 55.7% of judges, 60% of public prosecutors and 62.5% of court clerks were women. Also, women accounted for 51.7% of all lawyers and for 58.5% of all chief law […]
