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 […]
Posted in Featured, People, Social networks
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 […]
14 July 2011
Barry Hatton, a Lisbon-based foreign correspondent, has lived in Portugal for over two decades. His book “The Portuguese: A Modern History,” published May, 2011, is a blend of historical analysis with personal anecdotes. The author describes Portugal, a country with a long history, from being the oldest country in Europe with fixed borders and once becoming one […]
13 July 2011
More than 40 crews will contest the 2011 SATA Rallye Azores scheduled for July 14-16, in São Miguel, Azores. The 45 year old international Azorean car driving competition is one of the most important legs in the ground stage at the national rally championship. SATA Rallye Azores rankings count for the European Rally Cup, organized […]
Posted in Azores, São Miguel, Sports, World
13 July 2011
Tuesday’s (July 12) drawing of the Euromillions produced one jackpot winner in the United Kingdom. The fortunate sole winner gets the entire €185 million Euros ($265 million USD). In the United Kingdom lottery winnings are exempt from personal income tax. When the Jackpot first reaches or exceeds €185,000,000, it will remain at that level until […]
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