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Like last year, Porto city Hall is hosting business development training courses for the trading industry in the city of Porto.

The coming weekend will come alive with arts, craft and design with Urban Market at Praça das Cardosas, from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th, between 11 am and 6 pm. Admission is free.

Portuguese singer Rita Redshoes lights up Casa da Música tonight with her latest album "Her", at 9:30 pm. "Her" was recorded in Berlin, and it was produced by Victor Van Vugt, producer of Nick Cave's seminal album "Murder Ballads" and Beth Orton's "Trailer Park", winner of the prestigious Mercury Prize.

The eastern part of the city of Porto has already started to work a change. The New Intermodal Station of Campanhã Project is underway, with the winning project focusing on life-quality and congregating a train station and a city park. Former Slaughterhouse of Campanhã will be rehabilitated. Taking up as much land as three football pitches, the space will include workplaces and leisure areas.

According to daily French financial newspaper edited in Paris since 1908, Les Échos, Natixis is relocating a large part of the group to Porto, Portugal and it will boost employment. Nearly 600 jobs will be created over the next three years.

"Blackboards" is an Iranian film directed by young Samira Makhmalbaf, in 2000. It will be screened at Campo Alegre, February 25th at 6:30 pm. The plot focuses on nomadic Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, looking for children, potential students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border.

Public Transportation Company, STCP presented the first bus powered by an electrical motor. The eBUS, as it is called, is currently being tested on two lines of the transportation network in the city of Porto, in the framework of both the renewal of the bus fleet and the bet on environmentally friendly vehicles for the city.

The 14th edition of "Essência do Vinho Porto" event will give you more than a taste of three thousand labels from 350 wine producers, at Palácio da Bolsa. Prepare your senses for wine scents and tasting from February 23 to 26.

Golden Bear for Best Short Film 2017 was awarded to "Small Town," by Portuguese Diogo Costa Amarante. The short tells the story of Frederico, a six-year-old boy, who finds out at school that people die when their hearts stop beating. This discovery prevents him for sleeping that night.

Portugal's major seaport, Port of Leixões, located 4 km north of the Douro River, is to be optimised. It involves overall investment of EUR 320 million and it will improve access to the terminal as well as the operation of the container terminal, enabling larger container ships to enter the port and berth at the terminal.