Portugal

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 THE ADMINISTRATIVE Central Court of the South has agreed to study an appeal from the Alvor-based association A Rocha to stop owners from Quinta da Rocha,

LISBON CÂMARA is to ask the government to suspend a law laid down in the municipal urban development plan (PDM) which prohibits large-scale construction projects and redevelopment in the city’s

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com SEVEN PORTUGUESE companies have been honoured by the British Embassy in Lisbon as models of successful and innovative cutting-edge enterprise. All of the companies, which operate

CÂMARAS from across the Alentejo region will be hosting a week-long gastronomic festival based around lamb between March 17 and 23. Many restaurants in the region will be adding traditional

GERMAN BAND Tokyo Hotel and Portuguese rock band Xutos & Pontapés have been confirmed to play on the World stage at Rock in Rio in Lisbon on June 1. Other

By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@the-resident.com IN THE wake of widespread criticism about the introduction of a premium rate information line for British passport applications and renewals, Abtran, the company responsible for

LAST YEAR, 21 Portuguese women were killed by their husbands, ex-husbands or partners, while domestic violence reports made to the police rose by 12 per cent according to a study

A SECURITY guard, 35, was stabbed to death in the Colombo Shopping Centre in Lisbon on Tuesday, presumably around lunchtime. The body of the man, who worked for the private

PORTUGAL’S GOVERNMENT, which is investing in the construction of wind and solar farms as well as dams for hydro electric power, wants 45 per cent of the country’s electricity to