17 July 2011
Portuguese Parliament is endorsing the movement to make Fado, Portugal’s national song, part of UNESCO’s World Heritage Cultural Patrimony. The Parliamentary Committee for Education, Science and Culture is holding a hearing, on July 19, with a committee of private citizens working with Lisbon City Hall, to promote Fado’s candidacy at UNESCO. After a process started six […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Entertainment, Featured, Heritage, Music
16 July 2011
American tourism could help reseting the Portuguese economy, according to Allan Katz, US Ambassador in Portugal. Speaking at a seminar about Tourism and Security, held in Gaia, northern Portugal, Allan Katz said that of all efforts by the government and the private sector, “This is probably the only area of Portugal’s economy that can grow […]
15 July 2011
According to the Bank of Portugal, the four Portuguese banks subjected to the European Banking Authority (EBA) financial stress test this week, passed the test, showing they have all the capital ratios required by the international banking authority.
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15 July 2011
After a significant decrease in enrollment in recent years, the Portuguese language “is exploding in many regions of the world, offering employment opportunities, if not in Portugal, elsewhere in the world,” said Ana Paula Laborinho the president of Lisbon-based Instituto Camões (IC). Ana Paula Laborinho made the statement in Lisbon, Thursday, at the international conference […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Education, Heritage, Organizations
15 July 2011
A YouTube video titled “What Moddy’s trashes, we treasure” was created by two Lisbon-based young publicists, Patricia Soares da Costa and David Siqueira Magboulé, with the goal of seizing the moment to promote Portugal as an ideal destination at a time when the country has been rebranded with negative publicity brought by Moody’s decision to […]
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14 July 2011
Portuguese researcher, Vanessa Oliveira, of the Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM), based in Lisbon, Portugal, won the prestigious and competitive Early Career Bayer Hemophilia Award. Oliveira is working at developing a strategy to reprogram the immune system of hemophilia patients to avoid immune targeting of the most used clotting therapeutics. She was the only European […]
