21 April 2011
According to an opinion poll released Thursday, outgoing socialist Prime Minister José Socrates is leading in polls six weeks before the elections scheduled for June 5. Socrates leads with 36.1 percent, 11.6 higher than a last month Marktest poll, while the opposition party, the Social Democrats (PSD) fell 12 point to 35.3 percent. Socrates resigned last […]
21 April 2011
While most cities statewide experienced a decrease in their unemployment rate, figures released Tuesday show that in Fall River the unemployment rate increased to 18.4 percent in March up from 17.1 percent in February — reported the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. Fall River, a city with a population of 95,072, remains the […]
21 April 2011
Ricardo Oliveira is the winner of 2011 Portuguese American Post-Graduate Society Leadership Award for his accomplishments as an entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley industry. The announcement was made during the 10th PAPS Forum, which took place in New York, April 16th. He is the founder of “ThousandEyes,” a company which provides solutions to optimize the […]
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20 April 2011
The cost of living in Portugal depends on the location, as well as the lifestyle of the visitor, but compared to other European Union countries, the cost of accommodation, food, transportation and basic necessities is still much lower in Portugal. Currently much of the purchasing power of the Portuguese population has been weakened by unemployment […]
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20 April 2011
Antonio Calvo, senior lecturer at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures at Princeton University, took his own life on Tuesday, April 12, in New York City. According to The Daily Princetonian, the campus newspaper, the University has not released further details regarding his death alleging that as a policy, the institution “does […]
20 April 2011
The University of the Azores, in partnership with the Astrophysical Center at the University of Porto, is organizing the international seminar “Azores School of Observational Cosmology” to be held from August 31 to September 6, 2011, at the auditorium of the University of Azores in the Angra do Heroísmo. Observational cosmology is the study of the […]
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