Website hits new milestone
Website || The portugalresident.com website, launched in November last year to replace the old algarveresident.com site, continues to go from strength to strength reaching a new milestone last week with
“Urgent care” patients at health centres cannot be turned away
Ruling || In a bid to ensure all “urgent care” patients are attended at casualty units up and down the country, the ERS health regulation authority has issued a new
RTP to promote China, and vice-versa
Television || RTP, Portugal’s national broadcasting channel, has signed a collaboration deal with Chinese television (CCTV) to produce two documentaries, to be screened in both countries. Said Alberto da Ponte,
Cannabis tent
A GNR swoop on the property of a German man in Armação de Pêra last week netted a low-key but nonetheless sophisticated cannabis plantation, centred in a tent rigged up
“Mad cow” brought to heel by brave pensioner
A rampant cow that had been terrorising the rural community of São Pedro do Sul in Moldes has finally been brought to heel by a brave lady farmer. Maria de
Gun-toting Algarve drug dealer on run from police
Police in Portugal and Spain are reported to be hunting an Algarvian drug trafficker who shot a Spanish citizen in the foot in a day-time shoot-out in Huelva. The Ayamonte
"Golden Visa" Chinese man wanted by Interpol escapes extradition
Lisbon’s Court of Appeal has rejected the extradition of Xiaodong Wang, the Chinese man wanted by Interpol for a series of frauds committed in China before moving to Portugal as
Drivers in Lisbon can now pay parking charges via their smartphones
Drivers in Lisbon can now install a free App that will allow them to pay parking charges via their smartphones. ePark was launched this week over an area offering 10,000
Progress at Salgados? The good, the bad…and the ugly truth
It is two years since Portugal’s largest environmental protest got underway in a bid to save Lagoa dos Salgados from the horrors of coastal development. So, what – if anything
Final go-ahead for two luxury developments between Benagil and Praia da Marinha
Despite local concern, work on two private projects in Lagoa – involving 4 and 5-star hotels, villas and a golf course – is poised to start after council chiefs have