Minister of the Economy, Manuel Caldeira Cabral, has announced the launch of a new boost for non-EU tourists on shopping trips to Portugal.
One of Faro football club’s first team forwards, Octávio Alexandre Leal Barros, has been stabbed outside a bar in Largo do Cinema, Vilamoura.
US based investment fund, King Street Capital Management, is set to buy the Amendoeira Golf Resort in Silves.
Currently owned by Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), which took over loans from the Anglo Irish Bank after the founding company Oceânico ran into trouble during the recession, the golf resort remained open for business in the hope of a sale when the leisure market improved.
Secretary-General of the Social Democratic Party has resigned just a month into the job
The approval of a tourist tax in the Algarve is a "dangerous temptation" at a time of tourism growth and recovery, said the president of the Association of Hotel Directors of Portugal (ADHP).
Can’t sleep? Nor can an increasing number of Portuguese whose increased consumption of tranquilizers and sleeping pills indicates a growing dependency.
Odiana - the lower Guadiana development association - has released a new and rather charming promotional video about the area.(HERE)
The temperature will be down to 16 degrees Celcius tomorrow with rains predicted to drench the region at the start of yet another period of unsettled weather. This is helping to fill the reservoirs but is leaving the ground sodden and much of the population depressed. 
