Portugal

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

PORTUGAL WILL be especially vulnerable to a prolonged four-year world recession which could see the country lose over 20 per cent of its GDP by 2012. According to International Monetary

A REPORT from the Bank of Portugal released on Tuesday says more families are unable to pay their debts to the banks and that total debt has risen 26.5 per

SINCE IT was introduced 10 years ago in Portugal, 3.5 million boxes of Viagra and other medicine for erectile dysfunction have been sold. More than 1,650 boxes containing four pills

THE HEADS of four men have been delivered to police in Ascension near the US border city Ciudad Juarez in Mexico. Police officers who received the delivery, marked “sensitive”, have

PORTUGAL ACTED legally when it extended its gambling monopoly to internet based betting, the European Court of Justice has ruled. The decision to ban online gaming operators based outside Portugal

INSOMNIA, HEADACHES, palpitations and chest pains are some of the symptoms that more and more people are complaining of to their doctors, which they believe are associated with the economic

AN ATTACK on the late Pope John Paul II, which occurred while on a visit to Portugal in 1982, has been revealed for the first time by his former secretary,

RESEARCHERS HAVE revealed that a typical western diet, which is high in fat, salt and meat, accounts for around 30 per cent of heart attack risk in any population. Having