“The con­sump­tion of our planet’s re­sources by the rich world, as well as some of the boom­ing poorer coun­tries, is in­creas­ingly un­sus­tain­able. We are de­plet­ing the planet’s cap­ital more quickly than it can be re­plen­ished and mort­ga­ging the fu­ture […] »

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The aver­age re­tire­ment be­ne­fit paid out by So­cial Se­cur­ity in the first six months of this year was 397.17 euros per month. The news comes via of­fi­cial data, pub­lished by the daily news­pa­per «Cor­reio da Manhã» - and stands close to the sub­sist­ence […] »

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It’s a vi­cious circle. More aus­ter­ity is re­quired, but fur­ther belt-tight­en­ing will pre­ju­dice the economy and con­sequently shoot ef­forts to re­duce the pub­lic de­fi­cit in the foot. And so it goes on. Moody’s Cor­por­a­tion – one of the three largest cor­por­ate […] »

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From this week on­wards, it will be much easier and cheaper to “un­block” a mobile phone due to a new law which ob­li­ges tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions op­er­at­ors to provide this ser­vice free of charge at the end of people’s con­tracts. The “De­creto-lei 56/2010”, […] »

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The fam­ous oc­topus fished by the small town of Santa Luzia is to be the centre of at­trac­tion in this year’s ed­i­tion of the «Al­garve Chefs Fórum», sched­uled for 21st Septem­ber at Tavira’s “Pou­sada do Con­vento da Graça”. The event – this will be its […] »

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Dozens of ham­mer­head sharks have been sighted over the last few days off the Al­garve coast – par­tic­u­larly in the area around Sagres - which is ex­tremely rare. Fish­er­men and tour­ists have been re­port­ing sight­ings of sharks along the coast­line to the […] »

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Al­gar­vian Paulo Sousa swam the Straits of Gibral­tar last Fri­day 28th August, be­com­ing the old­est Por­tuguese swim­mer to do so, and one of only eight coun­try­men to boast this achieve­ment (only four had man­aged the feat be­fore Paulo’s at­tempt with three […] »

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Laura Dek­ker, the teen­ager at­tempt­ing a solo round-the-world trip, has set out from Por­timão. The Dutch 14-year-old is at­tempt­ing to be­come the young­est sailor of all time to cir­cum­nav­ig­ate the world on her own – hop­ing to fin­ish the chal­lenge be­fore […] »

Edition 641 (26 Aug 2010), No Comments »

Jorge Mor­gado, sec­ret­ary of the Por­tuguese con­sumer de­fence as­so­ci­ation (DECO), is all for more checks on the private med­ical sector as he does not con­sider it of­fers an al­tern­at­ive to the na­tional health ser­vice (SNS) – con­trary to what is mar­keted […] »

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