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Hindus laud Catalonia on bullfighting ban
Hindus have commended Catalonia parliament in Spain voting to ban...


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The world's first robot with conscience
Spain has designed the world's first robot with its own 'conscience' and 'life', which will 'entertain, teach and be a companion' to humans who purchase...
Spain Jobless Rate up to 20.09 Percent
Spain's unemployment rate rose to a 13-year high of 20.09 percent in the second quarter, the government said Friday, as the job market lagged behind an economy that has barely managed to break out of...
Portuguese societies sponsor music at Sacramento's California Museum
For the plethora of Portuguese descendants in the Sacramento area, a concert will bring their homeland a bit closer. "An Azorean Musical Journey," tonight's performance at the California Museum, is...
Price index of Macao's residential construction materials up 4.5% in Q2
MACAO, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Macao's price index of construction materials for residential buildings rose by 4.5 percent quarter-to-quarter to 138.3 in the second quarter of 2010, according to the...
Macao's electricity consumption up 4.9 pct in Q2
MACAO, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Under the influence of the seasonal factor, Macao's total consumption of electricity increased by 4.9 percent to 967.6 million kWh in the second quarter of 2010 over the...
Jul 30, 2010 Escapade Vacations Releases Spain, Portugal & Morocco Brochure
Morocco tours brochure. “The demand for the new brochure is outstanding,” said A. Ady Gelber, president and CEO of IsramWorld, “and its release has resulted in an overall increase...
Business Update Call - Portugal Telecom SGPS SA - Earnings Transcript
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Portugal Telecom selects Alca-Lu for network expansion
Portugal Telecom has signed a "major" three-year agreement with Alcatel-Lucent to extend the capacity of its IP/MPLS network in order to deliver existing and new broadband-based services to its...
JOS HOOIVELD has branded Celtics terrible performance in Portugal as s**t
JOS HOOIVELD last night branded Celtic's performance in Portugal as s**t. He slammed his team-mates for making it too easy for Braga to win 3-0 and virtually kill the Hoops' Champions League dream. ...
Portugal Telecom taps Alcatel-Lucent for broadband needs
Portugal Telecom and Alcatel-Lucent are in a three-year deal to expand Portugal's IP/MPLS network capacity to deliver existing and upcoming video-heavy content and data broadband-based...
Portugal Telecom selects Alcatel-Lucent to expand network
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced it has signed a major three-year agreement with Portugal Telecom to extend the capacity of its IP/MPLS network to support existing and...
Telefonica agrees Vivo deal with Portugal Telecom
Spanish telecom firm Telefonica has agreed to buy Portugal Telecom’s stake in Brazilian mobile company Vivo, ending weeks of strained...
Independence from Spain drives Catalonia’s bullfighting ban
Seneca, the Roman playwright, cast the Iberian Peninsula as a stretched bull’s hide — la piel de toro — more than 2,000 years ago. Cave paintings discovered in Spain depict men staring down...
Spain wants three U.S. soldiers for death of journalist in Iraq
A Spanish judge has issued an arrest warrant for three American soldiers accused of killing a Spanish cameraman in Iraq.Judge Santiago Pedraz at Spain's National Court ordered the arrests of Lt. Col....
Spain Nearing Accord With Solar Producers on Reducing Subsidies
July 30 (Bloomberg) -- The Spanish government and solar power producers are moving toward an agreement aimed at reducing subsidies to the industry and reining in electricity prices without damaging...
Portugal Economic Sentiment Indicator Stable In July
(RTTNews) - Portuguese economic sentiment indicator logged 0.1 in July, unchanged from June, a report by the Statistics Portugal showed on Thursday. A year earlier, indicator was minus 1.7. The...
Weekly Hotels Top Five of Five - Portugal
Lisbon is almost halfway through its ambitious Portugal Arte festival this week, a newly created event designed to bring original art by Portuguese artists closer to the public. Over a quarter of...
Lions host Portugal on Sunday
The Brampton Lions return to Canadian Soccer League play on Sunday.It will be a rare night game for the Lions who host Portugal FC at 8:15 p.m. at Victoria Park Stadium. Brampton is coming off its...
Landis+Gyr and CURRENT deliver smart solution for Spain and Portugal
CURRENT Group to cooperate on smart metering and grid solutions for Spain and Portugal.The standards-based, interoperable smart grid solution will combine Landis+Gyr Gridstream™ products and...
Portugal Telecom to acquire 35% stake in LF Tel
More Alerts >> Jul 29, 2010 (Datamonitor Financial Deals Tracker via COMTEX) -- Portugal Telecom, SGPS, S.A., a provider of telecommunications and multimedia services in Portugal, has agreed to...
Kayal promises to restore spirits at Celtic after setback in Braga
Beram Kayal has promised to lift the spirits of Celtic's fans and said playing in the Champions League meant nothing compared to starring for "one of the best clubs in the world". Kayal's hopes of...
Gibraltar police investigate suspicious death
Royal Gibraltar Police (RGP) is carrying out investigations following the discovery of a body at a house in Cumberland Road on the island in the early hours of Wednesday morning. An RGP spokesman...
CORRECT: Wynn Resorts 2Q Profit Doubles On Strong Macau Growth
has posted three quarterly losses in the past two years as the recession and high unemployment prompted consumers to cut their trips to gambling areas and the amount they spent while there. But the...
Spain gives $10 million for solar power heating in hospitals
SIDON: Lebanon’s first project for solar power heating at government hospitals was launched in Sidon on Thursday, with the cooperation of the Spanish...
Wynn Resorts Second-Quarter Profit Doubles on Macau
July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Wynn Resorts Ltd., owner of the Wynn and Encore casino resorts in Las Vegas and Macau, reported second-quarter profit doubled after the opening of its second property in the...
Jul 29, 2010 Sol Melia Debuts Melia Braga as 13th Hotel in Portugal
Sol Meliá, the largest Spanish hotel chain operating in Portugal, inaugurated the Meliá Braga, a newly-built hotel added under a franchise agreement to become the thirteenth Sol...
BRAZIL: Politicians defend actions in Telefonica v Portugal Telecom circus
Das to take hotseat at BSNL BSNL, India's largest state-run telecom company, has appointed Gopal Das as its new chairman and managing director. Das will replace Kuldeep Goyal, who is retiring at the...
SharePoint Connections Workshops head to Lisbon
Microsoft Portugual is to co-host a two-day SharePoint Connections conference in October. Microsoft SharePoint Connections Workshops 2010 will take place in the town of Cascais, about 15 miles from...
Alcatel-Lucent lands major deal with Portugal Telecom for IP infrastucture
ALU ) says it's signed a three-year deal with Portugal Telecom to extend the capacity of its IP/MPLS network to add new video rich services to its customers. Using Alca-Lu's High Leverage Network...
Portugal Telecom Selects Alcatel-Lucent's HLN Strategy
Portugal Telecom has awarded a three-year agreement to Alcatel-Lucent to extend the capacity of its IP/MPLS network to support existing and new services to its growing customer base. PT will evolve...
The Algarve to host 'Pop Up Restaurant' event
Share The trend for ‘Pop-Up Restaurants’ will arrive in Vale do Lobo this summer. A concept that has swept the world in the last year is quite rightly going to make its first...
Portugal, Brazil agree to cooperate on new channel
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Telefonica enters initial agreement with Portugal Telecom regarding purchase of controlling stake in Brazilian mobile company Vivo
Telefonica is the leading telecommunications services operator in the Spanish and Portuguese- speaking world. It offers a full range of voice, data and mobile services in Spain and internationally...
Indians defeat Portuguese side
Indian national football team beat Portuguese third division side Desportivo das Caldas 4-1 in their first practice match of the two-month training tour of the Iberian country in Vieria de Leiria. ...
Wynn Resorts profit doubles on Macau growth
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) - Robust business in Macau helped Wynn Resorts double its second quarter profit, the casino operator said Thursday....
Wynn profit doubles on growth in Macau
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- A big increase in revenue in Macau helped Wynn Resorts double its second quarter profit, and things were even looking up a bit in Las Vegas, the casino operator reported...
Spain judge orders arrest of US troops suspected of shooting journalist in Iraq
news archive ] in Iraq. Couso, a television cameraman, was killed in 2003 when a US tank fired into the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. The 3rd Division infantrymen named in the warrant, Sgt. Shawn...
Spain may extradite suspect in Ginza heist
In a rare case of police cooperation with Spain, Madrid will likely agree to transfer custody of a Montenegrin member of the "Pink Panther" robbers believed involved in a Ginza jewelry shop heist in...
France meet Spain in clash of junior titans
France´s Under-19 selection coach Francis Smerecki, seen here in 2001, will be looking for revenge when his side confront Spain in the final of the Under-19 European Championship in Caen, northern...
Spain makes it through to the quarterfinals with a 1 ? 0 win over Portugal
Bestfootballvideosonline Carlos Queiroz’s dream of taking Portugal to the finals of the World cup have ended. Portugal came out strong in the first half with many good oportunities to score...
Football: India win first practice match in Portugal
NEW DELHI: Indian national football team beat Portuguese third division side Desportivo das Caldas 4-1 in their first practice match of the two-month training tour of the Iberian country in Vieria...
Portugal Telecom selects Alcatel-Lucent to upgrade IP/MPLS network utilising High Leverage Network architecture
Lucent Technologies in December 2006, Alcatel-Lucent develops and supplies solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide to deliver voice, data and video...
Moody's keeps Portugal Telecom's Baa2 rating
(ADPnews) - Jul 29, 2010 - Moody's today affirmed the Baa2 issuer rating on Portugal Telecom (ELI:PTCA), or PT, following a EUR 7.5 billion (USD 9.8bn) deal with Spanish sector player Telefonica...
Braga brush Celtic aside
Braga brush Celtic aside 28.07.10Celtic are on the brink of crashing out of this season's Champions League after gifting Braga a 3-0 win in Wednesday night's third qualifying round first leg. A...
Portugal Telecom Squeezes $2.3 Billion Out of Alierta
July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Telefonica SA called its initial bid for Portugal Telecom SGPS SA’s stake in Vivo Participacoes SA of Brazil “fair, full and final.” Chairman Cesar Alierta...
Telefonica, Portugal Telecom agree on Vivo
Telefonica SA reached an initial agreement to buy Portugal Telecom SGPS SA's stake in Brazil's Vivo Participacoes SA after raising its bid a third time to €7.5 billion (RM31.18 billion), a...
Spain Reissues Warrants for US Soldiers in Iraq Artillery Deaths
Spanish judge Santiago Pedraz leaves the National Court in Madrid, 29 Jul 2010. Pedraz reissued arrest warrants for three U.S. soldiers over the death of cameraman Jose Couso, killed by American tank...