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2010-03-04 > 2010-03-10
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What’s no longer needed by some can be a treas­ured find for oth­ers. Proof of this are the bust­ling flea mar­kets that have mush­roomed throughout the re­gion - cheap al­tern­at­ives to ha­bitual con­sumer­ism. They nor­mally take place on Sunday morn­ings, […] »
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NEWS
It’s not news to any Al­gar­vian par­ent, but a re­cent study pub­lished in the «Pro­teste» magazine, put out by the As­so­ci­ation for Con­sumer Rights (DECO), con­firms a des­per­ate state of af­fairs: the Al­garve has the highest per­cent­age of par­ents dis­sat­is­fied […] »
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The black mar­ket – or more quaintly ter­med “par­al­lel economy” – rep­res­ents 22 per cent of Por­tugal Gross Do­mestic Pro­duct (GDP).
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Oporto’s “Uni­versity Fernando Pessoa” re­cently con­duc­ted a study into the way Por­tuguese cit­izens view the PSP po­lice – and the con­clu­sion is that six out of ten people are not happy with this par­tic­u­lar force at all.
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Con­tam­in­a­tion of local wa­ters and soil in win­ter - and a nox­ious stink through the sum­mer – around the Eastern Al­garve land­fill site, in the bor­ough of Loulé, are is­sues that the left-wing “Bloco de Esquerda” is keen to clear-up.
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Car­los Oli­veira, the Pres­id­ent of the “Cáritas Dioces­ana do Al­garve” (the Al­garve’s Diocesan char­ity) has warned that the fund that the Cath­olic in­sti­tu­tion has to help fam­il­ies in need has run out…
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Por­tugal has one of the highest num­bers of kid­ney pa­tients in the developed world – with more than 16 011 on dia­lysis and 600 un­der­go­ing trans­plants in 2009.
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Hav­ing dozens of TV chan­nels at home is an ab­so­lute pri­or­ity for an in­creas­ing num­ber of Por­tuguese.
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The con­struc­tion of an aquar­ium to show the full po­ten­tial of Ria For­mosa is a pro­ject that already goes back ten years – but it’s now nearer to be­com­ing a real­ity.
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