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BILLIONNAIRE CASINO tycoon Stanley Ho has been awarded a double honour by Cascais Municipality in this the 50th anniversary of the Casino at Estoril. The avenue running adjacent to the

AN EXTENSION of women’s fully-paid maternity leave from 14 weeks to 18 weeks has been proposed by the European Commission to encourage more women to return to work after having

By: DAISY SAMPSON daisy.sampson@the-resident.com ARSON ATTACKS in Portimão and Alvor at the weekend left neighbourhoods shocked and businesses closed as vehicles and commercial properties were targeted. Several fires were started

THE MOTHER of the three Belgian girls who were found in the north of Portugal last week has returned to Belgium with her daughters. The Viseu court said the family

A CONSORTIUM led by Brisa and Soares da Costa has presented the lowest financial proposal in the competitive tendering bid to build and operate a stretch of the TGV high-speed

CONSTRUCTON OF the new dam in Odelouca is progressing at a steady pace, with developers expecting it to be completed on time. A spokesman for Águas do Algarve, responsible for

INDIA AND France have signed a major co-operation agreement that will allow the European country to sell nuclear reactors to Delhi. The pact followed a prior decision from the Nuclear

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com THEY OPEN but once a year and the queues to see them are so long they stretch the entire length of two blocks. They are Lisbon’s

PORTUGUESE PRESIDENT Cavaco Silva called on a fairer, more balanced and peaceful deal for Africa while addressing the 63rd General Assembly of the United Nations in New York last week.

POLICE IN Spain have arrested 121 people in an operation against internet child pornography which uncovered millions of images and spanned 75 countries worldwide. According to Spanish police, two of