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THE FIRE Brigade, GNR and emergency services (INEM) in Ourique responded to an accident on the IC1 near Portela do Lobo on October 30, which resulted in one woman being

THIRTY MUSEUMS and five Portuguese palaces have uploaded 30,000 images from their art collections onto the internet. Anybody can now access pictures of thousands of treasures by logging onto www.matrizpix.imc-ip.pt

PORTUGAL IS the only country in the world where mothers with two or more children are more likely to be part of the workforce than women without children according to

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com COMPANIES AND service suppliers will be responsible for paying Value Added Tax upfront even if they haven’t been paid by their customers. The controversial move, criticised

HOUSE PRICES in the Algarve are the highest in the country, with prices averaging 1,708 euros per square metre in the region. This is higher than in Lisbon, where the

COLOUR THERAPY, light therapy, herbs, laughing yoga, pilates, reiki, shiatsu, tui na massage… today there must be 1001 alternative therapies aimed at our physical and spiritual well being. The fourth

TAP, THE largest airline company in Portugal, has announced that it is now offering cheaper flights due to a reduction by three euros in the fuel surcharge which came into

PORTUGAL’S MOBILE communications market is expected to stagnate next year as the global financial crisis affects the sector. António Coimbra, a Vodafone Portugal executive board member, said that the company

PORTUGAL’S association for industrial car producers, Associação de Fabricantes para a Indústria Automóvel (AFIA), warned that, in the next few months, as many as 12,000 jobs could be cut in

By: DAISY SAMPSON daisy.sampson@the-resident.com TIMESHARE HORROR stories are set to become a thing of the past as a new directive by the European Parliament aims to harmonise timeshare laws across