Golden visa-bility
Mopping-up in the wake of the Golden Visa scandal, incoming minister for internal administration Anabela Rodrigues has now ordered SEF (the borders and aliens authority heavily implicated in the investigation
Movie theatres continue to lose viewers
Austerity, a rise in online home-entertainment services and online film piracy are likely to be behind the decreasing number of cinema-goers as Portugal’s movie theatres registered a 3.8% drop in
Carlos Cruz and Jorge Ritto are stripped of their honours
Years after they were indicted for sex crimes against children, former television personality Carlos Cruz and former UNESCO ambassador Jorge Ritto have finally been stripped of their honours. According to
Employment hope for Portugal
Portugal is aiming to break new ground in the fight against long-term unemployment. Top priorities centre on getting young people into their first jobs and seeing over-30s given new chances.
Portugal has 200 tons of radioactive material in “poorly-secured” warehouse
As the country wakes up to the heightened threat of terrorism, a television news team has presented a frightening report on a “poorly secured” warehouse near Viseu that holds enough
Portugal’s acts (finally) over record levels of Caesarean births
New data shows that Portugal is at last turning the tables on its record number of C-section births. From being the country with the highest percentage of Caesarean births in
Stormy seas hamper search for bodies off Sintra coast
Air and sea searches for the five fishermen lost in a freak accident off the Sintra coast last week have now been called off. As debris from the Santa Maria
Switzerland’s “Black Swan” scuppers Portuguese teachers and public officials
As European currencies are still reeling from the sudden increase in the value of the Swiss Franc against the Euro, the effects the “Black Swan” event has had on Portuguese
INEM insists on firemen reanimating two-day old corpse
Firemen in Vieira do Minho are up-in-arms over the insistence of an emergency services telephone operator that they try to resuscitate a two-day-old corpse. As emergency services throughout the country
Terrorism threat: police increase vigilance in Lisbon
With Europe on maximum alert over the likelihood of further radical Islamist terror attacks, Portugal’s PSP police are now following “precise orders” ensuring increased vigilance in Lisbon. Sábado magazine revealed