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ACCORDING TO health specialists in Portugal, the current economic crisis and consequent growing financial pressure on families are leading to an increase in the number of people suffering depression and

By CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com DANCING FROM the Surialanga Dance Company and dramatised poetry from Rite 2 Speak provided colourful entertainment at this year’s South Africa Nation Day celebrations in Lisbon.

By CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com IN THE Chinese language, the word ‘crisis’ has a double meaning – on the one hand it means difficulty and suffering and, on the other hand,

RUI MACHADO had the satisfaction of watching his opening round Puebla conqueror, Michael Lammer, sweep to victory in the 35,000 dollar ATP Challenger at the cost of dropping only one

By CATHY MORRIS editorial@the-resident.com Prostitution appears to be thriving in the Algarve, with girls becoming more obvious on main roads. The region has a number of hotspots for girls who

SPAIN MADE light of injured world No1 Rafael Nadal’s absence to claim its third Davis Cup victory in Argentina. Fernando Verdasco turned out to be the hero for the 2000

A SURVEY by British newspaper the Financial Times has placed Portuguese finance minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos at the bottom of a league table of European finance ministers. Now in

People believe that climate change is more important than the current financial crisis, according to the organisers of an international opinion poll. However, the poll revealed that fewer people in

RICKY HATTON all but buried the memory of his only professional defeat against Floyd Mayweather Jnr. by comprehensively pummelling Paulie Malignaggi to defeat in America. The Mancunian light-welterweight world champion’s

PORTUGUESE MINISTER of national defence, Nuno Severiano Teixeira, officially received the first C-295M transport aircraft on behalf of the Portuguese air force last week. The new aircraft was delivered to