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CHINA HAS sent two giant pandas to Taiwan as a gift from Beijing to the self governing island long considered by the Chinese to be part of the mainland territory.

A new law concerning domestic violence is to come into force in Portugal and will mean abusive partners will be held to justice.  Under the current law, an abusive partner

THE FINANCIAL fallout from the world’s largest ever pyramid scheme fraud has cost Portuguese banks indirect losses of 85 million euros. The breathtaking fraud engineered in the United States by

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL claim that stun guns used by the Portuguese police can lead to death. On Tuesday last week, it called on the government to suspend the use of the

PORTUGAL HAS been ranked 17th in an international poll of 25 economically developed countries assessing the quality of child care. In the report, published by UNICEF, Portugal met four of

Bernard Madoff, the former chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange, has been charged with fraud in what has been described as a financial scandal. Some of the world’s biggest banks

RAOUL RUIZ Martinez, Resident contributor and financial adviser for euroFinesco s.a. fiscal and expatriate services, has been nominated for four Financial Times awards this year. He was nominated for best

IN A further twist to the BPP scandal, it has emerged that the Bank of Portugal, and its then governor António de Sousa, was warned not to allow João Rendeiro

SCIENTISTS HAVE discovered seven new gene variants that suggest that obesity is largely a mind problem. Two international studies published in Nature Genetics showed that the brain plays the dominant

MOTORBIKE ENTHUSIASTS were finally able to test their riding skills during the Miguel Praia training weekend at the Algarve Motor Park.