30 March 2011
The 4th Portuguese Senior Mens’s International Championship golf tournament will take place at Golf Estoril, Portugal, from April 25th to May 1st, 2011. Participants will be competing for the “Taça José de Sousa e Mello”. Tournament is limited to 93 players by order of handicap. Limited to 8,3 handicap. Both tournaments are played Gross and have […]
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29 March 2011
The 2010 North-South Prize winners -Louise Arbour (Canada) and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brazil) – were awarded today, March 29, in Lisbon, at the Portuguese Parliament, at a ceremony presided by President Anibal Cavaco Silva among many other personalities. Louise Arbour was born on 10 February 1947 in Montreal, Quebec. She began her academic career […]
29 March 2011
Portugal is the first country to meet the goals set fuel-efficiency for cars in the European Union which goals are to decrease car emissions down to 130 grams of CO2 by km by 2015. Average car emissions in Portugal’s new car market were 127.4 grams in 2010, followed by France, Denmark and Italy, which were […]
29 March 2011
Little is known about Portuguese poker prodigy José Macedo because he is in hiding. He has not been seen for months given the fact that he was under age at the time he played poker online and amassed a small fortune. Macedo is said to have made a staggering US$1, 624, 044, 95 profits from […]
29 March 2011
Real estate prices continue to fall in Portugal – every month since December – reflecting the current political and economic crisis aggravated since the resignation of socialist Prime Minister José Socrates last week. As a consequence of the economic downturn, the free-fall in property value is being amplified by higher unemployment and the political uncertainly for […]
29 March 2011
Arístides de Sousa Mendes will the honored in Mineola, New York, at an event organized by the Sousa Mendes Foundation and the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. The event sponsored by the Village of Mineola will take place at the Mineola Memorial Library on April 2nd. The program includes storytelling for children, the exhibition “These are my […]
