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North American Airline Company United Airlines will start operating daily flights between Porto/New York/Newark on May 5th 2018. This is extraordinary news for Porto that could only be accomplish due to the momentum the city is experiencing.

The images and drawings that compose books, namely childhood books is the theme broached by this illustration exhibition on display in the hall of the Municipal Library Almeida Garrett in the framework of Porto Book Fair.

Fitch Ratings has affirmed the City of Porto's Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at 'BB+'. The Outlooks are Positive. The Short-Term Foreign-Currency IDR has been affirmed at 'B'.

The largest event ever will be hosted in the city of Porto this September. The Water Innovation Week (PWIW) starts the 24th and will gather 900 participants from 60 countries, world-class debaters and hundreds of companies, including scientists, experts' consultants from the five continents and water related companies.

Airliners Ryanair and Wizz Air have announced new routes between Porto and Malta and the Polish city of Wroclaw. Air connections will be launched in 2018. Regarding airline company Ryanair, the scheduled air service Porto-Malta will be provided twice a week, every Monday and Friday, starting April next year.

Rivoli Theatre was filled with visitors to get to know the programme of theatre, music, literature, cinema, dance, artistic residencies and visual arts for the next fourth months.

The concert cycle "Porto Best Of" is set to come back to the Great Auditorium Rivoli Theatre on 19 October, at 9.30 pm with a programme devoted to pop music. Clã and Best Youth are the big bands to take the stage.

The programme of the XII Cultural Cycle of Porto Cemeteries continues Saturday, 9 September, with another nocturnal photographic incursion. The tour begins at 9.30 pm, rendez-vous at the south entrance of the cemetery (Padre Baltazar Guedes Plaza).

This is the first time that Porto Municipality is taking part in the Smart Cities Innovation Summit Asia 2017. The event takes place between today and Friday, 8 September, at KINTEX, the impressive International Congress Centre of South Korea, in the city of Goyang.

The September to December Season of Porto Municipal Theatre was presented today at Rivoli and is the culmination of a process initiated in September 2014 that aimed at "operating a city project that pays attention to its artists and its audiences with a strong international component", stated Mayor Rui Moreira, this morning at the renewed Café Rivoli.