02 June 2011
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama are expected to attend the prestigious 2011 Pritzker Prize for Architecture awards event, Thursday evening, honoring Portugal’s architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. Obama will speak at the formal ceremony honoring the winner, at the event to be held at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, in Washington, DC. The […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Community, People
02 June 2011
By Anna Domings, Guest Editor (*) — Down a long and winding road in the small town of Merrimac, Massachusetts, is a quiet haven of Portuguese culture. Sons of the Wind, owned by Victor Silva, is a horse farm, which exclusively breeds, trains, and sells Lusitanos, a breed which originates from Portugal. The farm offers […]
Posted in Azores, Community, Heritage, Interviews, People, Sports, Terceira
02 June 2011
Instituto Camões (IC), based in Lisbon, Portugal, is planning to open a cultural center in Toronto, Canada, reported Lusa News Agency. The project is being developed in partnership with an anonymous donor, a Luso-Canadian businessman. According to Ana Paula Ribeiro, coordinator for the teaching of Portuguese in Canada, the future “Centro de Língua e Cultura […]
Posted in Canada, Community, Education, Featured, Heritage, Organizations
01 June 2011
Tap Air Portugal cabin crew is staging a 10 day summer strike for June 18, 19, 20, 25 and 26, and for July 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29, to protest staff layoffs — announced, Wednesday, the National Union of Civil Aviation Flight Attendants. In a statement to the press, unionist Ricardo Andrade said the […]
01 June 2011
Portuguese American scientist Dr. Ronald A. DePinho, MD, 56, was chosen as the sole finalist to succeed John Mendelsohn as the next president of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, at the University of Texas in Houston. The son of Portuguese immigrants, Dr. DePinho is a Harvard University cancer geneticist, the director of the Belfer Institute […]
31 May 2011
According to the Bank of Portugal, in 2010 Portuguese emigrants worldwide sent home over 2,403 billion euros ($3,460 USD billion) — more 122.03 million euros ($175,7 USD million) than in 2009. It is estimated that over five million Portuguese live abroad. France, with remittances reaching 899.16 million euros ($1, 294, 6 USD billion), remains the […]
