Portugal

PORTUGAL’S LATEST state-of-the-art shopping mall was launched with ice skating and fireworks in Viseu last Tuesday, April 15. The Palácio do Gelo, Ice Palace, opened its doors with 90 per

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 club, and has a

By DAISY SAMPSON daisy.sampson@the-resident,com A DUTCH woman is missing, feared drowned, after she was swept out to sea near Albufeira yesterday (Sunday, April 20) morning. The woman, who has not

LISBON CÂMARA accountants have reached an agreement with the municipal authority’s main creditors which will wipe interest payments worth 12 million euros of its debt. The Câmara’s financial chief executive

A SECONDARY school in Seia, situated in the Serra da Estrela national park, has been the centre of a tuberculosis (TB) scare. Believed to have been started by an 18

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

By: CECÍLIA PIRES cecilia@the-resident.com ONLY SEVEN of the 29 golf courses in the Algarve are using, or partly using, recycled water from their own water treatment plants to water their

THE CHIEF inspector of the service for foreigners and frontiers (SEF) considers the number of people involved in human trafficking in Portugal to be increasing. Luísa Maia Gonçalves asked for

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com “Sometimes I feel we are fighting a losing battle to win the hearts and minds of Portuguese public opinion in the fight against this disease,” says

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com CENTRAL BANKS and financial regulators should introduce tough new regulations and provide market liquidity to settle market jitters, said Portugal’s central bank governor on Tuesday. Addressing