One in six Portuguese adults over the age of 50 live in a household with “food uncertainty”, according to a study by researchers from the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto.
Lagos City Council is promoting a new campaign to promote the sterilization of domestic dogs and cats. “It is a program for dogs and cats whose owners are residents in the municipality of Lagos and who are unable to afford the surgical sterilization procedures, namely beneficiaries of the Social Insertion Income (RSI), Solidarity Supplement for the Elderly ( CSI) and other economic support structures that are duly substantiated”, explains the council.
A person posing as a member of ARS Algarve's breast cancer screening program is contacting women in the region via phone calls, asking them for breast photographs as a means of “diagnosing cancer.”
Parliament has today condemned the creation of a museum dedicated to Salazar in Santa Comba Dão in Viseu, birthplace of the dictator, approving a vote put forward by the Portuguese Communist Party considering it an "affront to democracy".
9 out of 10 Portuguese people consider climate change to be a "very serious problem," more than the European Union average, according to a study released on Wednesday, showing that people are becoming more aware of the validity of the consequences associated with climate change.
Shares in Millennium BCP, Portugal’s largest listed lender, dropped lower today after a competition watchdog fined 14 banks for carrying out “a concerted exchange of sensitive commercial information” for more than a decade.
This Monday the prime-minister criticized the PSD political party for jeopardizing the development of Montijo airport, warning that "there is no plan B" and that the suspension of this project seriously putting economic growth at risk.
Portuguese authorities have successfully broken up a counterfeit money ring that used dark websites to sell fake banknotes in exchange for virtual currency, arresting five people including the suspected kingpin who was extradited from Colombia, police revealed on Monday.
