Researchers at the University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) have put beekeepers and the public on full alert to seek and destroy the Asian wasp (see picture below) which recently has been captured and identified in Vila Real.
Vespa velutina, the Asian Wasp reached Europe via the port of Bordeaux in 2004 and has been killing local bees ever since, like this little chap in the picture.
As TAP's new owners announce the airline is to take on the mass market specialists easyJet and Ryanair competing on price and frequency, a new challenger wants a slice of the lucrative Lisbon and Oporto routes to and from Madeira.
Everjets has started regular flights from the mainland to Funchal and, at current advertised rates, make TAP look expensive and time consuming with many Lisbon return flights inconveniently routed via Oporto.
A British man suspected to being a drug trafficking boss has been arrested in the Spanish province of Granada.
Michael Roden along with six others – three women and three men - was apprehended in the early part of October, a police spokesperson announced on Monday.
Portugal’s Public Security Police command has boosted security at the Lisbon-based embassies of France, the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany, also raising the alert level at Lisbon, Oporto and Faro airports in the wake of the terrorist atrocities in Paris.
The number of operational security personnel has been increased to enable a strengthening of surveillance activities after 132 people died in the bombings and random machine-gun attacks in Paris on Friday night. Over 350 were injured and many remain in critical condition.
Portugal's dodgy gold shops will have more rules to avoid as of Monday November 16th, as Portugal’s Food Safety and Economic Authority (ASAE) tries to control some of the more obvious illegal activities practiced by many in this trade.
The first bright idea is that cash payment can only be made for gold items up to €250. Most stolen items will be under this amount or can be divided into smaller sales.
The recently appointed Secretary of State for the Economy, Vera Rodrigues, has presented her preliminary report on the Volkswagen scandal working group.
Having been told by the former Minister for the Economy Pires de Lima that Portugal was not affected by Volkswagen’s emissions scam, the number of cars in Portugal that will need to be recalled and fixed is now estimated at around 8,000.
Novo Banco, the company created as the ‘good bank’ when Banco Espírito Santo went bust last August, has failed its European Central Bank 'stress test' and needs to find €1.4 billion in the next nine months.
The Bank of Portugal has announced that it immediately will start a new sale programme for Novo Banco in order to repay the €4.9 billion injected into the bank when it was established.
Gunmen and suicide bombers targeted restaurants, a music venue and a sports stadium in Paris on Friday night and killed at least 129 people with 329 injured plunging the French capital into chaos.
Four gunmen shot dead a possible 100 people at a rock concert at the Bataclan concert hall featuring the Eagles of Death Metal.
