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Portugal news, weather & today: Rui Pinto - hacker or hero?

Published: Sept. 7, 2020, 10:47 a.m.

The weekly weather outlook - https://sites.google.com/view/olabomdia/weather?authuser=0 - gave way to a round-up of what-we-did-at-the-weekend reports featuring exloding thermometers, wasp bites and setting up a community pub.

For the Good Morning Portugal Wine Club it included a delightful Sunday evening in Coimbra in the company of Paulo at 'A Camponeza' - a must-do experience for wine loving tourists and expats - https://www.facebook.com/acamponeza

Although a meaty subject for a Monday morning, I chose to look at the incredible 'hacker or hero' story that is Rui Pinto and his ongoing trial - https://www.portugalresident.com/heightened-security-in-place-as-portuguese-whistleblower-trail-opens-in-lisbon/

The whistle-blower sensitivity now growing in Portugal is also reflected in a new strategy to combat corruption through education and raising awareness - https://www.portugalresident.com/national-strategy-to-combat-corruption-and-save-e18-2-billion-a-year-approved-ahead-of-whistleblower-trial

Today's 'palavra do dia' is 'camponesa', meaning peasant, paysanne or rural - https://context.reverso.net/translation/portuguese-english/camponesa



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