Skip the toilet and save the planet
By: Sarah Howe Email: travel.pdm@portugalresident.com FORGIVE THE pun, but could it be the first flush of environmental awareness in China? One of the country’s leading airlines has begun encouraging passengers
The challenge of making your home toddler proof
BY: Liz Ryan of Homes in Heaven Email: liz.ryan@portugalresident.com BEING THE proud and weary mother of a 15-month-old boy (and a mum who is trying to run a business), I
Going global through diversification
By: Bill Blevins Email: bill.blevins@portugalresident.com ONE OF the basic rules of successful investing is diversification. International investment is a well-established concept in investment management and most investors appreciate the opportunities
Rebel rabbits and calçada calamities
By: PAUL McKAY Email: paul.mckay@portugalresident.com Friday, December 8 I have been jogging since September. Not continuously, you understand, but five or six times a week. When I first began, three
UK Government dashes inheritance dreams
By: JOHN WESTWOOD Email: blacktower.financial@portugalresident.com New 82 per cent tax on pension funds GORDON BROWN issued his pre-budget report on December 10, 2006 in which he introduced several new anti
Tolerance and understanding
By: Margaret Brown Email: margaret.brown@portugalresident.com WHILE OUR Christian faith asks us to love our neighbour and to live in peace with all – an ideal for which we may strive,
EDP needs competition to lower electricity prices
By: CHRIS GRAEME Email: chrisgraeme@sapo.pt THE GOVERNMENT has agreed to allow Portuguese electricity monopoly EDP to increase its prices by six per cent in 2007. However, despite the price hikes,
Spreading the news
BY: Skip Bandele Email: skip.bandele@portugalresident.com HAPPY CHRISTMAS! Yes, we have done it again, reached that time of year, scoffed at decorations going up for sale in shops and supermarkets at
Europe at your service
By: Philip Bushill-Matthews Email: philip.bushill-matthews@portugalresident.com For many of us, the purpose of the European Union has always been primarily about completing a real common market, enabling trade to flow freely
Going forth into 2007
By: Margaret Brown Email: margaret.brown@portugalresident.com ANOTHER CHRISTMAS has passed and, while for some people it was a secular diversion, others concentrated on the religious side of things as well and