Australians plough €10 million into Alentejo white poppy production
Just as foreign millions ‘scoop’ prime chunks of Portuguese real estate, agriculture too is reaping new rewards. Australian company TPI Enterprises – which has already ploughed around €3 million into
TAP desperately tries to head-off pilots strike
With losses of €85.1 million this year and longed-for privatisation already certain to yield the country zero in the way of profits, TAP is once again locked in a bitter
Ria Formosa islanders “more determined than ever” after eviction from Parliament
Battling Ria Formosa islanders determined to save their homes from government bulldozers have declared last Friday’s protest in Lisbon a “victory” – despite the fact that every one of them
Portugal’s youth unemployment still “exceptionally high”
Despite political spin to the contrary, youth unemployment in Portugal is still “exceptionally high”, claims the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) whose latest study using data from last
Wine tastings and “much more” at Única Adega Cooperativa in Lagoa
A group of students from the University of the Algarve is organising a major wine tasting event at the wine cellars of ÚNICA Adega Cooperativa in Lagoa on April 18
Pioneering study helps Portugal’s alcoholics recover cognitive skills
A ground-breaking project to help alcoholics recover lost brain function through the use of a mobile app is being tested in Portugal. According to a report in Jornal Médico, the
Gondomar primary school teacher killed at zebra crossing as she returns from lunch
A 47-year-old primary school teacher was killed on Monday as she returned to school with a colleague from lunch. The accident appears to have happened when mother-of-one Anabela Cardoso was
Years after school stabbing horror in Massamá, school janitor demands €100,000 in damages
Eighteen months after 15-year-old Gonçalo A. entered his school in Massamá, stabbing three pupils and a 58-year-old school janitor, the latter – Nazaré Lopes – is claiming €100,000 in ‘moral
Lagos resumes sand replenishment project
A €1.8 million project to replenish sand at the D. Ana beach in Lagos, which had been on hold since 2009, finally kicked off on Monday (April 13). As the
New Zealand fund launches legal action against Bank of Portugal
As intimated in February, the New Zealand Superannuation Fund has added its weight to the landscape of multimillion euro lawsuits and legal actions that has flourished in the wake of