Cow cleanser
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com TEACHERS IN Maharashtra, India, poured cow urine on low-caste students, last week, in order to cleanse them and extinguish the evil inside them. Upper caste, Sharad
Dance festival
CONTEMPORARY DANCE is on show until the 29th of this month as part of the Spring Dance festival taking place at Portimão Municipal Stadium. Tickets are on sale at the
Environment awareness
NATIONAL NATURE conservation association, Quercus and car manufacturer, Toyota, are getting together for a joint initiative to raise awareness of environmental problems. The campaign got underway last Sunday April 22
Explore Asia – by sea
Sponsored by PDM Travel pdm@portugalresident.com As the Port of Shanghai announces a new cruise passenger terminal, Asian tourism experts are launching a campaign to promote the region as a great
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Fountain frolics
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com AN ITALIAN woman took a dip in the famous Trevi fountain, in Rome, last week – in her birthday suit! She was hot and decided to
General strike
PORTUGAL’S LARGEST union, Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses (CGTP), is to organise a general strike on May 30 in protest against government policies that are generating poverty and unemployment. CGTP
Government challenge
THE RICHEST Portuguese tycoon in the world, Sonae entrepreneur Belmiro de Azevedo, has challenged the government to lower the country’s crippling taxes. The impresario said that the government needed to
Hitler honour
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com POLICE ARRESTED a man in Canada for wandering the streets of Nanaimo, British Columbia, wearing nothing but a swastika on his chest. He told locals that
Murder charge
PORTIMÃO COURT has decided not to charge five out of the seven gang members that were in preventive prison for the murder of Lagos police chief, Sérgio Martins, in December