Navy bases
IRAN’S STATE media has revealed that the country has opened new naval facilities east of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow entrance to the Gulf, which is key to oil
Forestry guards
PORTUGAL’S MINISTER of Agriculture, Jaime Silva, has announced that the country’s forestry guards will be licensed to carry and use guns. This change, which was approved during a ministers’ meeting
Military day celebrations
PORTUGAL’S MILITARY day was celebrated in the Manuel Bivar gardens of Faro with a parade involving 1,200 soldiers on Sunday, October 26. The celebrations, which took place between October 23
Millionaire fines for price fixing airlines
AIRLINES, BRITISH Airways (BA) and Qantas have been fined millions of pounds by a Federal Court in Sydney, for their part in an international freight price fixing cartel between 2002
Portugal’s property sector cautiously optimistic
By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com THE PROPERTY market in the future must be associated with sustainable development, socially responsible pricing and the environment. These were the conclusions of the Salão Imobiliário
Race against breast cancer
PORTUGUESE POP singer Tony Carreira is supporting and will attend the Corrida Sempre Mulher breast cancer awareness race, which is due to take place on November 9 at the Parque
Sex trafficking
MORE THAN 600 adults who are involved in child prostitution have been arrested in raids across the US. According to the FBI, co-ordinated operations involving federal, state and local law
Legal ivory sale
MORE THAN 100 tonnes of Ivory went on sale legally on Tuesday, when the first officially sanctioned auction of the material in southern Africa for almost a decade was opened.
Stark financial picture
By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com THE PROPERTY and financial sectors have to wake up to the economic reality of a prolonged recession, lasting up to three years, in which nothing will
Artificial heart ready for human implant
SCIENTISTS SAY they have a working prototype of a fully artificial heart, which beats almost exactly like the real thing using electronic sensors to regulate heart rate and blood flow,

