Portimão displays world photos
WORLD PRESS Photo is back to Portimão for the fourth year.The local Câmara, in conjunction with Associação Música XXI, a private organisation, is promoting the event, which opened on Friday,
Premiere – July 26 – Rogue
Directed by: Greg Mclean Starring: Michael Vartan, Radha Mitchell, John Jarratt, Sam Worthington Genre: Action/ Adventure/ Horror Pete McKell, a cynical American travel writer, joins a disparate group of holiday-makers
Premiere – July 26 – The Simpsons – The Movie
Directed by: David Silverman Starring: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright and Yeardley Smith Genre: Comedy/ Animation When Homer Simpson accidentally causes a radioactive leak from the Nuclear Power Plant
Private hospital for Faro
CONSTRUCTION IS due to begin on a new private hospital called Hospital Particular de Faro in Gambelas, Faro. The private hospital will be constructed over an area of more than
Racing track will be built
THE GOVERNMENT has approved the Plano de Pormenor do Escapadinho, the plan for the new car racing track to be built in Portimão. The announcement was published in the Diário
RESIDENT COMMENT
MOTORBIKES converged in their thousands on Faro over the past weekend for the annual Bikers Convention. This was arguably one of the busiest weekends on the roads in the Algarve,
Rice and Blair in Lisbon Peace Quartet meeting
By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@portugalresident.com WORLD LEADERS from the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations met in Lisbon on Thursday (July 19) to discuss ways of resolving
Russia wants to restore normal ties with UK
RUSSIAN FOREIGN Minister Sergei Lavrov made light of tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions between London and Moscow in Lisbon on Friday. Speaking at a meeting of the Middle East Quartet for Peace
Secret services to supervise building facelift
THE PORTUGUESE security services are to supervise a major interior facelift at the nation’s parliament building in Lisbon to ensure that the deputies’ chamber doesn’t get bugged. The improvements and
Spain’s most wanted man caught in Portugal
“EL SOLITARIO” (The Loner), a Spanish bank robber and murderer whom Spanish police had been trying to catch for more than 13 years and considered as “very dangerous”, has been