Portugal

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, renewable energy cooperation, bacalhau agreements and oil topped the agenda during a three-day state visit to Portugal by King Harald V and Queen Sonja of  Norway. The royal couple

PORTUGAL’S ECONOMY minister, Manuel Pinho, has sent a letter to the President of the EU council and the EU commissioner for energy to ask for an urgent meeting to discuss

FIESA, THE international sand sculpture festival in Pêra, officially opened its doors to the public on Thursday, May 22. Invited guests were amazed at the variety and size of the

THE GOVERNMENT is to increase financial benefits for 25 per cent of the nation’s poorest families. The measure was announced last week in parliament by Prime Minister José Socrates in

PORTUGUESE SCIENTISTS have discovered how an enzyme is crucial in the development of Malaria. The findings, published in the US scientific journal Cell Host & Microbe, follow a study carried

A LONG TERM member of the American community in Cascais, Bob Pine, died recently.  His friends will gather to remember his life tomorrow (Saturday, May 31) at 12.30pm. A good friend

By: DAISY SAMPSON daisy.sampson@the-resident.com REPRESENTATIVES FROM Celtic, Middlesbrough, Cardiff City and Portuguese team Guimarães were all present at the unveiling of the Algarve Challenge Cup at the Hotel Hilton in

JARDIM VISTA S.A. was invited to participate in Casa.Lisboa 2008 to face-lift the garden of one of Lisbon’s most remarkable buildings, the Palacete Ribeiro da Cunha. Dated 1877, the Palacete

A EUROPEAN Union report has revealed that the divide between the rich and poor in Portugal is the worst of all 25 member states. According to the Eurostat report, there

By: EDUARDO OLIVEIRA COSTA Eduardo Oliveira Costa is a journalist and publisher of several newspapers across Portugal. He is on the board of several organisations, is president of a football