20 April 2023
By Millicent Borges Accardi Inês F. Oliveira’s debut children’s book Calvin And Sugar Apples will be launched this summer by the San Francisco based publisher The Collective Book Studio. Born in Viseu, Portugal, the author is thrilled to share her writing with readers old and young. Oliveira, who holds a master’s degree in engineering from […]
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19 April 2023
Set during the difficult era of the Great War (1914-1918), The Devastation of Silence is the story of a captain in the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps who, with no documents showing his rank, finds himself in a German prison camp forced to share the circumstances of his poorer countrymen. He is hungry, constantly plagued by the […]
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19 April 2023
The San Joaquin Valley Portuguese Festival takes place on April 22 and 23, organized by the Carlos Vieira Foundation, in Turlock, California’s Central Valley. In its fourth edition, its goal has been to reach more Portuguese American younger generations and communities, according to Elaina Vieira president of the Carlos Vieira Foundation. The annual event, which […]
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13 April 2023
Suspect Jack Douglas Teixeira, who was arrested on Thursday over leaking online US defense and intelligence documents, is of Portuguese American descent, CNN.Portugal has reported. The suspect, a 21-year-old US Air Force National Guard member, is a resident of North Dighton, Massachusetts, a third-generation Portuguese American, the grandson of Azorean immigrants, Francisco Viveiros, president of […]
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13 April 2023
Portugal continues to keep a close eye on foreign affairs all over the world, even though it has greatly downsized and is now just a small country on the sidelines of major power politics. Starting from the early 16th century, Portugal controlled an empire that stretched from Asia across Africa to South America. After granting […]
07 April 2023
The Chinese Ambassador to Portugal, Zhao Bentang, met with the Vice President of the Regional Government, Artur Lima, in Angra do Heroísmo, on Terceira island, to offer projects in the areas of Culture, Research and Science. Among the projects discussed at the meeting was the setting up of a Mandarin teaching institute on Terceira Island […]
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