Portugal

PORTUGAL’S FIRST golf show opened yesterday (Thursday) at the Lisbon Conference Centre and runs until Sunday. Supported by the Portuguese Golf Federation and Turismo de Portugal, the show aims to

By: DAISY SAMPSON daisy.sampson@the-resident.com A PROPOSED open sewage treatment plant in the Martinhal area near Sagres has been put on hold because of complaints by local people, developers and politicians.

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

THE LEADER of the Order of Lawyers said he was satisfied with the release from prison of a fanatical Portuguese skinhead leader. Mário Machado is one of 36 defendants being

MORE ENGLISH lessons are to be introduced in Portuguese classrooms, the Minister for Education, Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues, has announced. Children in the third and fourth years of Portuguese schools

PORTUGAL REGISTERED more deaths than births in 2007 according to the Portuguese National Statistics Institute. According to records stretching back to 1900 for births and deaths, the Portuguese natural population,

FOR THE sixth consecutive year, runners will be able to participate in the half marathon Meia Maratona dos Palácios on Sunday at 10am in Sintra. Runners pass two of the

LISBON CÂMARA members are studying plans to create a new museum in the city devoted to African culture, history and traditions. The museum would be very different to Lisbon’s Ethnographic

THE MINISTER of Finance, Fernando Teixeira dos Santos, said last week that’s Portugal’s Gross Domestic Product will grow 1.5 per cent in 2008. The rate is 0.7 per cent less

MEMBERS OF the Polícia Judiciária (PJ) were in Lisbon for the third European conference on missing and sexually abused children. Organised by the Instituto de Apoio à Criança (IAC), the