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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

THE TRIAL of 36 skinhead members of illegal extreme far right political groups has begun at a Lisbon court at Monsanto. The neo-Nazis are being tried for various crimes, including

LISBON-BASED lawyer José Miguel Judice is to front the company that will redevelop the River Tejo waterfront between Santa Apolónia and Belém. The lawyer has the backing of the President

LISBON PSP police has caught 20 taxi drivers operating without licences in the Greater Lisbon area. Officers from the Traffic Division, Divisão de Trânsito, were laying in wait at taxi

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com EUROPE WILL avoid recession despite world financial market turbulence, said Bank of Portugal Governor Vitor Constâncio this week. Addressing the British-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce in Lisbon

By: CECÍLIA PIRES cecilia@the-resident.com PORTUGUESE POLICE investigators travelled to the UK on Monday, April 7, to re-interview the seven friends who were with Gerry and Kate McCann on the night

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com PORTUGAL MORE PRODUCTIVE EUROPE WILL avoid recession despite world financial market turbulence, said Bank of Portugal Governor Vitor Constâncio this week. Addressing the British-Portuguese Chamber of

AN ESPRESSO coffee, or bica, considered an integral part of Portuguese culture, is set to rise in price and could cost as much as one euro. The average cost of

AS PRESIDENT of the Portuguese Nature Protection League (Liga para a Protecção da Natureza – LPN) and a founder of the governing PS party back in the 1970s, Professor Eugénio