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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

PORTUGUESE EXPORTS to Spain are likely to suffer as the Spanish economy shows strong signs to cooling. Both consumer demand and investment are slowing down in Spain forcing the Bank

By: GAYNOR JESUS news@the-resident.com Two ARMED thieves held-up a Lagos petrol station on Sunday night, taking an estimated 30,000 euros. Portimão Polícia Judiciária (PJ) are now investigating the incident. The

PORTUGUESE RAILWAY company, CP, is inviting Lisbon residents to travel by train along the Tejo River to Castelo Branco, in the Beira Alta region. The programme is called Comboio Aventura

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com A US Environmental Protection Agency officer visiting Lisbon last week said that a formal research and collaboration agreement between the United States and Portugal could soon

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com MOUNTAINS of construction rubble illegally dumped by building sites and at road sides has lead to a new environmental law to regulate construction waste. The 5.2

THE LETTERS ‘c’, ‘p’ and ‘h’ could soon be removed from Portuguese words where they are not pronounced, in an attempt to unify and simplify the language. It could mean