A new laboratory to develop technology related to the sea is being developed by research centres in Oporto and Faro, with European funding of around €5.3 million.
The TEC4Sea laboratory, created by the Institute of Systems and Computers, Technology and Science Engineering (INESC TEC) and the Centre for Technological Research of the Algarve (CINTAL), intends to "train highly qualified human resources," - also known as 'people.'
During the first year of the new points system for driving offences, not a single driver has lost his license.
Road deaths rose by 8%, a slight increase in the last 12 months, with 462 people losing their lives as a result of road traffic accidents, an increase of 35 victims.
Intrepid tourists in the Algarve managed to clock up 587,000 visits to the region’s tourist offices last year.
Most popular were the offices in Faro, Lagos and Tavira with the regional capital’s refurbished site receiving an average of 1,700 visitors a week.
The Águas de Portugal group is to spend €18 million between now and the year 2020 to double its renewable energy production and shear €5 million a year off its electricity bill.
The State-owned company has announced an Energy Efficiency and Production Plan which outlines a renewable energy production target of 50 Gigawatt hours, more than double its current production.
The Sagres lifeboat crew helped deal with the carcass of a 12-metre-long whale that was spotted floating in the sea off Baleeira and endangering shipping.
According to the Maritime Authority, the adult whale was spotted by the crew of a fishing vessel which alerted the authorities.
Officers from the Judicial Police have made an arrest in Madeira related to the Alvor acid attack that left a British travel rep seriously injured.
Cláudio Gouveia, Eleanor Chessell’s former lover, has been arrested for attempted homicide, according to a statement from the Portimão PJ.
The Secretary of State for Tax Affairs, Fernando Rocha Andrade, said to a committee of inquiry into tax evasion that we really shouldn’t expect too much from the Panama Papers, nor from the €10 billion transferred from Portugal, that went undetected due to a ‘mistake.’
Andrade revealed today in Brussels that the Portuguese Tax Authority is 'aware' that there are 165 taxpayers in Portugal uncovered in the Panama Papers and that when the Tax Authority was alerted, it immediately joined an OECD working group ‘to exchange information and methods.’
The first thing you’ll notice upon entering the anatomical theatre at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine is the lone pickled head, up on a shelf next to a diaphonized hand. It’s yellow, peaceful-looking, and somewhat akin to a potato.
The various physicians and anatomy technicians in the preceding hallway all address it with a mix of familiarity and indifference. It’s just there, really. Just the head of Diogo Alves, whose claims to fame include being both Portugal’s first serial killer and the last man to be hanged.
