CHINESE REALTY SEEKERS OPT FOR PORTUGAL AND SINGAPORE SHUNNING US AND AUSTRALIAN MARKETS

• Property investors from mainland China are shifting their gaze on Portugal and Singapore as alternative investment locations, while offloading more money out of traditional markets like the US and Australia and Britain amid concerns about difficult trade relations.
• While the Co...

TOSHIMITSU MOTEGI TO VISIT FRANCE, SAUDI ARABIA, AND PORTUGAL ON A SIX-DAY TRIP

Highlights –

• Toshimitsu Motegi to visit France, Saudi Arabia, and Portugal on a six-day trip.
• Motegi is to begin his trip starting this Tuesday.
• He will meet with Protuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
• In Lisbon, he ...

MORE EU AREAS TO BE RED TRAVEL ZONES FOR BELGIANS FROM FRIDAY

HIGHLIGHTS

• Belgium has added many new EU areas to red zone.
• The newly listed cities will be considered as red zones from Friday.

Belgium has added several new areas in the European Union (EU) to red zone. These areas include Copenhag...

BJSS OPENS OFFICE IN LISBON

HIGHLIGHTS

• British technology consultancy firm BJSS has opened an office in Portuguese Capital Lisbon.
• This is the first office of BJSS in continental Europe.

To kickstart the new operation in Portugal, the British technology consult...

PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT’S DECISION PROVIDES RELIEF TO IMMIGRANTS

Highlights

• Immigrants with pending cases on March 18 will be regularised

• This decision was taken considering coronavirus issue, to provide services to vulnerable immigrants

• The documents issued will aid immigrants to access various government ser...

PORTUGAL PRESIDENT SAYS NO SCHOOLS TILL APRIL END

Highlights

• No travel in the period between April 9 and 13 due to Easter’s weekend

• Government planning to reopen schools by month of May

• Portugal will receive an aid package from EU to stabilize it’s economy

The containment m...

LISBON: POLLUTION GOES DOWN BY 60 PERCENT

Highlights

• First positive impact of lockdown

• Decrease in Nitrogen dioxide levels in the air

• Portugal has over 9,886 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 246 deaths till date

Impacts of lockdown faced by numerous countries across the globe...

LISBON: EVEN SEWERS ARE AFFECTED BY THE CORONAVIRUS

Highlights

• Increase in use of sanitary wipes and tissues

• People are flushing these wipes instead of putting them in trash

• Mayor Wilson has urged his citizens not to flush these tissue papers and wet wipes

The promoted use of sanitary we...

Bank of Portugal tracks the Eurobic of Isabel dos Santos

LISBON–Portugal's central bank is conducting a small-scale local lender Eurobic review, where Angolan billionaire and former first daughter Isabel dos Santos are the key shareholders, to determine their money laundering procedures, Eurobic said.

In response to Reuters ' qu...

Lisbon Metro expansion set to take place later this year

The Lisbon Metro expansion is set to take place in the latter part of 2020. The Portugal government looked forward to a massive upgrade to the transport systems in the country’s biggest cities in 2018. These big cities included Porto and Lisbon.

Portugal’s state budget for 2...

Professor Martins develops the electronics industry in China

"Macau is known all over the world for its casino chips, but it is now also known for its electronic chips," said confidently Professor Rui Paulo Da Silva Martins.

As Vice-Rector of the University of Macau (UM), Professor Martins, a 62-year-old Portuguese physicist, leads Chin...

The massive conflagration in Portugal

A massive hearth stretching twenty-five klicks has been raging through the night between the central Portuguese boroughs of Port Vila DE Rei and Macau. Ad At least eight individuals are black-and-blue, one seriously, a civilian apparently suffering first and 2nd-degree burns. The civilian has bee...

Emergency service of Portugal is top tier

As we all know, Portugal has been emerging as a tech hub and a major name in the tech world of the western European continent. The tech rise of Portugal is very recent but the progress that it has made in a very short span of time is just remarkable.

The tech rise of the nation has aide...

Ryanair strike kicks off in European country, minimum service secure

A strike by Ryanair’s Portuguese cabins two crew started on with the low price airline warning passengers that a little range of flights could also be affected and also the government ordering staff to deliver a minimum service to avoid chaos. The five-day strike known as by Portugal’...

Portugal set to stay religion with Socialists

Lisbon, October 3 (AFP) Portugal goes to the polls on Sunday with elector satisfaction with Prime Minister Antonio Costa’s record of an economic process set to propel his Socialists back to the office for a second term. Bucking a trend of declining center-left fortunes elsewhere in Europe, ...