Illustration from https://www.xn--luisdecames-nfb.pt/ Over 2024 and 2025, Portugal celebrated the half-millenium since the birth of the country's national poet, Luís de Camões. A Rede Camões na Ásia & África ( the Camões Network in Asia and Africa), of which this blog is a proud sponsor, just held the Third Congress in Goa on March 12. The Network also launched a call for submissions for the second edition of the Revista de Estudos Camonianos (Journal of Camonian Studies)

The 36th Singapore International Film Festival was held from November 26 to December 7, 2025. Although the SIFF is known for its focus on Asian filmmakers and promotion of Southeast Asian films, it also includes in its programming notable independent and non-commercial films from around the world. On December 6, with the support of the Portuguese Embassy in Singapore , the SIFF presented the Portuguese movie O riso e a faca , known in English as "I Only Rest in the Storm", b

One of the top Portuguese guitar players, Pedro Jóia , will be performing in Singapore on December 12. The 55-year-old has performed in Asia before, in mainland China and Macau. In Singapore, Jóia will offer a Christmas concert at the National Library Building . It's free admission, so get there well before the 6:30pm start! Many thanks to the Embassy of Portugal in Singapore as well as the Instituto Camões for organizing the event with the support of Singapore's National Lib

The Philippines was named in 1542 after King Philip II of Spain (who also became King Philip I of Portugal in 1580). According to the Treaty of Tordesillas that preposterously divided the newly discovered lands beyond Europe between Spain and Portugal, this archipelago of over 7,000 islands fell under Spanish claims. However, the first European expedition to reach the Philippines, while sent by the Spanish crown, was led by the Portuguese explorer Fernão de Magalhães, known t

The 37th World Expo is currently being held in Osaka (大阪), Japan, from April to October this year. This is only the fourth World Expo to...