06 May 2011
Portuguese researcher João Gonçalves is the recipient of the Grand Challenges Exploration Award granted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a research project underway aimed at eliminating HIV-1 viruses from infected organisms. Professor João Gonçalves teaches at the Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Lisboa and is a researcher at the Instituto […]
06 May 2011
Hospital services, schools, courts, public offices, trash collection an many other public services have been disrupted Friday, in Portugal, by public workers on a 24 hour general strike organized by the National Federation of Civil Service Unions, the biggest disruption in the country in two decades. Workers are protesting against austerity measures resulting from a US$115 […]
06 May 2011
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ruled Thursday that civil unions between same-sex couples are now allowed. Although the ruling recognizes homosexual partnerships it does not go so far as to make marriage equal in the nation. The court decision was approved 10-0 with one abstention. According to the ruling, from now on lesbian and gay couples […]
06 May 2011
According to the Portuguese Skin Cancer Association, an estimated 10,000 new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed every year in Portugal, more than 1,000 are malignant, and the majority of the cases are caused by over-exposure to the sun. Skin cancer cases have been gradually rising in Portugal as well as in various other European […]
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05 May 2011
The Center of Portuguese Language Instituto Camões at UMass Boston is celebrating May 5th — International Day of Portuguese Language — with the launching of its website dedicated to the teaching and learning of Portuguese as a second language. The new website will enable teachers and students to go through a variety of online resources […]
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05 May 2011
Portugal holds 382.5 tons of gold, worth an estimated US$20.7 billion, one of the largest gold reserves in the European Union. Managed by Banco de Portugal — the Portuguese central bank – the Portuguese gold reserves equal 9 percent of the country’s GDP, the highest of any European country. Portugal’s gold reserves — the 13th […]
