Full Coverage: Portugal

25.09.2008 Five kilometres out to sea from Aguçadoura, a Pelamis wave machine is gently riding the Atlantic swell, generating power for the Portuguese grid.
From: BBC

28.06.2007 Europe has been urged to take collective responsibility for serious shortcomings in refugee policy "rather than stand by and watch people drown".

28.11.2006 from Blue Climate:
Portugal will invest in a carbon fund to ensure that the country can meet its Kyoto targets for the 2008-2012.

08.06.2006 Portugal is facing catastrophe as it heads down a path marked by rising emissions of greenhouse gases, wasteful use of water, unbridled construction activity and coastal erosion, environmentalists warn.

07.06.2006 Construction of the world's largest solar energy plant has started in Portugal's southern Alentejo region, General Electric said.

19.04.2006 from Green Car Congress:
With the help of new investment, the world's first commercial offshore wave energy farm is on track with further developments in the pipeline.

25.10.2005 "Promoting Public Services in the Media: Human Rights, Tolerance, Multilingualism and the Fight against Discrimination" is the subject of a UNESCO sponsored conference at which media experts meet this week in Lisbon, Portugal.

23.03.2004

26.11.2003 It's now apparent that the damage caused by last year's Prestige oil spill was as bad as, if not worse than, the Exxon Valdez disaster. Over 3,000km of coastline was polluted by the spill, which killed some 300,000 sea birds and directly affected the livelihoods of 30,000 people in the fishery and shellfish sectors. They said "never again" after the Exxon Valdez. Again?

18.09.2003 WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 18 (OneWorld) -- Young children raised in the United States, Mexico, and Portugal have the greatest chances of dying from neglect or other forms of mistreatment among the 27 industrialized nations that make up the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), according to a new report released Thursday by the UN Children's Fund.

21.07.2003 Se a visita do presidente brasileiro a Lisboa representou um avanço para a legalização dos milhares de brasileiros que vivem em Portugal, para outros estrangeiros, que tentam regularizar as suas vidas no mercado de trabalho português, um acordo assinado entre Portugal e o Brasil representa uma discriminação.

30.08.2002 In Portugal sind Migranten aus Osteuropa und Zentralasien, deren Zustrom in jüngster Zeit ständig wächst, willkommen. Helfen die Ukrainer, Weißrussen, Balten oder Kirgisen dem relativ armen EU-Land doch beim raschen Aufbau seiner Infrastruktur. Vor allem der Bausektor schätzt die qualifizierten Arbeitskräfte aus dem Osten, die bereitwillig zu Niedrigstlöhnen schuften.

30.08.2002 In Portugal sind Migranten aus Osteuropa und Zentralasien, deren Zustrom in jüngster Zeit ständig wächst, willkommen. Helfen die Ukrainer, Weißrussen, Balten oder Kirgisen dem relativ armen EU-Land doch beim raschen Aufbau seiner Infrastruktur. Vor allem der Bausektor schätzt die qualifizierten Arbeitskräfte aus dem Osten, die bereitwillig zu Niedrigstlöhnen schuften.

30.08.2002 In Portugal sind Migranten aus Osteuropa und Zentralasien, deren Zustrom in jüngster Zeit ständig wächst, willkommen. Helfen die Ukrainer, Weißrussen, Balten oder Kirgisen dem relativ armen EU-Land doch beim raschen Aufbau seiner Infrastruktur. Vor allem der Bausektor schätzt die qualifizierten Arbeitskräfte aus dem Osten, die bereitwillig zu Niedrigstlöhnen schuften.

30.08.2002 In Portugal sind Migranten aus Osteuropa und Zentralasien, deren Zustrom in jüngster Zeit ständig wächst, willkommen. Helfen die Ukrainer, Weißrussen, Balten oder Kirgisen dem relativ armen EU-Land doch beim raschen Aufbau seiner Infrastruktur. Vor allem der Bausektor schätzt die qualifizierten Arbeitskräfte aus dem Osten, die bereitwillig zu Niedrigstlöhnen schuften.

30.08.2002 In Portugal sind Migranten aus Osteuropa und Zentralasien, deren Zustrom in jüngster Zeit ständig wächst, willkommen. Helfen die Ukrainer, Weißrussen, Balten oder Kirgisen dem relativ armen EU-Land doch beim raschen Aufbau seiner Infrastruktur. Vor allem der Bausektor schätzt die qualifizierten Arbeitskräfte aus dem Osten, die bereitwillig zu Niedrigstlöhnen schuften.

26.07.2002 Many cases of child labour have been reported from European nations. Though not widespread, exploitation of young children has been found in Portugal, Spain, France, Greece and Italy.

20.05.2002 The newest nation of the millennium with just 800,000 people takes birth at midnight after suffering colonial rule for hundreds of years. People of the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste now hope to get rid of poverty and suffering.

02.04.2002 The administration of former United States president Gerald Ford was planning covert actions in Angola well before Cuba's intervention in the former Portuguese colony's 1975 civil war, according to secret Cuban and US documents released yesterday.

19.03.2001 The Portuguese export credit agency has refused to back a multinational firm in its bid to supply hydro-mechanical equipment to builders of the controversial Maheshwar dam on Central India's Narmada river.