Headline: Portuguese nationality has become a lucrative business in the ex Portuguese State of India By: ANA CRISTINA PEREIRA. Source: Publico (Portugal). Monday, 09 February 2004, at http://jornal.publico.pt/2004/02/09/Sociedade/S01.html
The main article consists of 937 words and there are links to five other articles on the same topic which are in the same issue. I have used a machine translation service to get an idea of the substance and I have had help in editing the text. The results can be seen at: http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/supplement/PortugueseNationality.html#6 I would be grateful for suggestions on refining the translation further. It certainly needs this! The machine translation, for example, equated the author's name, Pereira, with Pear tree! Excerpts: Jose Ces�rio, the Secretary of State saw "posters of five metres by three" in the streets of Goa, when he visited that city last year. Along the highway from the international airport one of the most popular products of the city are advertisements regarding the Portuguese passport. A large number of fraudulent applications, based on false birth certificates, have been detected. Even people from out of India applied, namely from the Bangladesh and Pakistan. On the Internet, for example, some people have asked for further information from places as far as Qatar. The authorities of other countries exhorted Portugal to take a stance. "We received some protests, mainly from the United Kingdom", confessed the Secretary of State. The Government ordered the suspension of the activity. In October, it formed a working group to analyse the situation and to define strategies. The confidential report has been delivered. "We have new strategies", affirms Jose Ces�rio. The fact that Portugal has currently a right-wing Government causes some concerns in Goa. Ces�rio guarantees that this is not the intention of the Government [to withdraw the facility]. The new rules are only aimed to fight fraud. Please see: http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/supplement/PortugueseNationality.html#6 for a rough draft of the article. The supplement has other links - to the UK House of Commons Parliamentary question, for example. I am grateful to Paulo Colaco Dias for drawing my attention to the article in Publico. Cheers, Eddie Fernandes ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
