European investment in Portugal's digital sector can help address a shortfall in equity funding for start-ups and support an export-driving technology industry, Portugal's economy minister, Pedro Siza Vieira, said on Wednesday.

Portuguese lender Millennium BCP has reported a 5% rise in nine-month net profit on Thursday, thanks to record client numbers and a sharp drop in non-performing assets.

By 2020, Lagos Council will assume all the powers that the Government have decentralized, after only accepting three of the new tasks so far this year, which is the first year of a transitional period that will last until 2021.

The little rain that fell in October has not helped to relieve the pressure on the Algarve’s dams, meaning that the region continues to suffer from severe drought conditions.

Monchique Council, alongside the Order of Architects, will challenge national professionals to design a fire-resistant home. The idea was brought up this Tuesday, during the signing ceremony of a document between the two institutions, which allows for volunteer architects to prepare projects rebuild houses in the country, following the wildfires in August last year.

A newborn baby, with his umbilical cord still partially attached, was discovered by a homeless man in a bin in Lisbon last night.

The government has announced plans to revamp Portugal’s Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) in an effort to cut back on the hellish bureaucracy that haunts the process, as well as improving conditions for immigrants to the country. This also includes possible changes to the “golden visa” scheme.

The building was said to be one last vestiges of the golden days of Praia da Rocha. But no longer, because since Monday, November 4th, it has been undergoing demolition. The house is known as the House of the Count of Covilhã, and is a historical testimony of the early decades of the twentieth century.