It’s timing that reaps financial rewards
By: BILL BLEVINS financial@portugalresident.com THE TRADITIONAL maxim for stock market investment is “buy low, sell high”. While this sounds sensible advice, it’s much harder than it sounds. How do you
Early cravings
By: SUZY TURNER suzy@portugalresident.com RESEARCH BY The Wellcome Trust has found that eating junk food in pregnancy and while breast feeding can make children overweight when they grow up. The
Conception Day
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident IN AN effort to raise the birth rate, the Russian province of Ulyanovsk declared a Family Contact Day on Wednesday, which has unofficially been called Conception
Cop thief
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A GROUP in Malaysia chased a thief who stole a woman’s purse, only to discover that he was actually a policeman. After hearing a woman scream
Road signs removed
IN ORDER to improve road safety, a town in Germany has decided to remove all traffic lights and stop signs from its downtown area. The new system came into effect
Wasting police time
By: SUZY TURNER suzy@portugalresident.com A COUPLE in the UK called the police when their eight-year-old daughter refused to go to bed. At 3am, officers were called to the house in
Child prodigy
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident A MATHEMATICS genius in China has become Hong Kong’s youngest undergraduate, at the age of nine. He breezed through his first day, saying that classes were
It’s a dog’s life
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com AMERICAN REAL estate billionaire, Leona Hemsley, who died on August 20, has left 12 million dollars to her pet dog, Trouble, and did not leave two
Lovers fined
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com CHINESE AUTHORITIES punished three police officers for arresting and fining a couple for hugging in public on Chinese Valentine’s Day. The couple paused to embrace while
The purpose of prayer
By: MARGARET BROWN AS THE ultimate act of mediation, Christ pleaded that his executioners might be forgiven because they did not know the true significance of what they were doing.