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 […]
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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 […]
31 May 2011
The campaign for Portugal’s snap June 5 election has entered its final and decisive week with opinion polls showing the Social Democrat Party (PSD) leading with 37 percent of the vote over the Socialist Party (PS) down from 36 percent to 32 percent of the votes. The pool was conducted by Intercampus between May 25 and […]
28 May 2011
According to the 2011’s Global Peace Index (GPI), Portugal dropped from 13 to rank 17, out of 153 countries, in the annual report issued by the Institute for Economics and Peace. The change reflects the recent increase in political and economic instability with social tensions arising from economic uncertainties and the re-equipping of the Portuguese […]
