Where noble kings and princes lie
By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@portugalresident.com WITH BUSINESS being slack and the holiday season in full swing, one can take the time to discover some places in Lisbon that there normally isn’t
Boy racer
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com POLICE ARRESTED a teenager in Scotland after he posted a video on the internet website YouTube of him driving at speeds of more than 140 miles
Goat luck
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com STAFF AT Nepal’s state-run airline, Nepal Airlines, sacrificed two goats after one of its Boeing 757 aircrafts experienced technical problems. They made the sacrifice to appease
Inheritance tax could be axed
By: BILL BLEVINS financial@portugalresident.com FOLLOWING PROPOSALS for revolutionary tax cuts in the UK by the Conservative party, inheritance tax (IHT) may be scrapped. But first the Tories have to win
Credit crunches and currency crises
By: DAVID JOHNSON financial@portugalresident.com Last time I wrote about concerns over increasing levels of default in the US mortgage market, especially those loans where the borrower has a less than
Self catering accommodation & licensing requirements Part 3
Self catering accommodation and licensing requirements – Part three: Owners, agents and holidaymakers By: DENNIS SWING-GREENE International Fiscal Consultant for euroFINESCO financial@portugalresident.com WHEN THE relationship is directly between the owner
Sausage attack
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A BRITISH boy was in court last week charged with assault on a 77-year-old man. The pensioner had reported to the police that the 12-year-old child
Scare tactics
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A WOMAN in Germany gave a man who was attempting to steal her bag from her car a terrible fright. She had just taken a refrigerator
Cry wolf
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com POLICE IN Japan arrested a man for calling the police and fire brigade a total of 388 times in the space of 14 months. The man,
Battery crocs
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com FOLLOWING AN anonymous tip off about strange goings on at a property in Veracruz, Mexico, several police officers stormed the house and discovered almost 100 crocodiles