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18 June 2021
The promotional event “Macao Week in Shanghai” was held successfully, in tandem with the offline and online promotions to raise Macao’s profile as a healthy, safe and quality destination. The “Macao Week in Shanghai” roadshow attracted around 300,000 spectators on site while related live streams conducted by KOLs engaged over 44.36 million counts of live … Continue reading "“Macao Week in Shanghai” held successfully Attracting visitors with “tourism +” glamour"
18 June 2021
Chinese and African companies stuck 15 deals together worth US$5.1 million at the 2021 China-Africa Online Matchmaking for Agri-products trade fair, The Paper website reports. The Chinese state-run website says over 30 companies that deal in agricultural products such as cashew nuts, sesame seed and spices were represented at the fair, which was held online … Continue reading "US$5.1 mln of deals done at Sino-African trade fair online"
18 June 2021
Chinese maker of cleaning products Nice Group Co. Ltd is investing US$5 million in expanding its factory in the Luanda-Bengo Special Economic Zone in Angola, and will soon take on 300 more workers there, Angop reports. The Angolan state-run news agency quotes the general manager of the factory, Zhuo Ziquan, as saying Nice Group has … Continue reading "Nice Group spending US$5 mln on expanding factory in Angola"
18 June 2021
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd of China and Brazilian companies WDC Networks and HDT Energy have formed a partnership to apply artificial intelligence and high-performance optimisers with lithium batteries in the generation of solar power, the BN Americas website reports. The website, citing a written statement by Huawei, says HDT Energy, already a partner of Huawei, … Continue reading "Huawei, Brazilian partners to use AI in farming solar energy"
18 June 2021
The “Macao Week in Shanghai” came to a successful conclusion, during which the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) promoted Macao through both online and offline channels that recorded over 90 million online viewers. Some participating enterprises were satisfied with the overall sales and a Macao enterprise entered into co-operation with a large international … Continue reading "IPIM and Macao Enterprises Yield Fruitful Results at the “Macao Week in Shanghai”"
17 June 2021
Timor-Leste has begun inoculating its people against COVID-19, using the CoronaVac vaccine devised by Sinovac Biotech Ltd of China, Xinhua reports. The Chinese state-run news agency quotes Chinese Ambassador to Timor-Leste Xiao Jianguo as saying those with priority when mass vaccination began on Monday included teachers and tertiary students. The report says Timorese Defence Minister … Continue reading "Timor-Leste begins mass inoculation using Chinese vaccine"
17 June 2021
Organized by the Macao Museum of Art (MAM) under the auspices of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, and co-organized by the Architects Association of Macau, the “Connectivities: Living beyond the boundaries – Macao and the Greater Bay Area, the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia – Works of the Collateral Event of Macao, China”, will … Continue reading "“17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia – Works of the Collateral Event of Macao, China” opens on Friday"
17 June 2021
The Wine Society of Macau and event organiser DOC DMC Macau will put on this month a two-day event called Taste Portugal, with a view to promoting sales in Macao of Portuguese food and wine, Lusa reports. The Portuguese news agency says the event, at the D’Ouro Portuguese restaurant in Macao, will match Portuguese wines … Continue reading "Sales of Portuguese food and wine to be promoted in Macao"
17 June 2021
The City University of Macau Institute for Research on Portuguese-speaking Countries is getting ready to publish an academic study on Guinea-Bissau written in Chinese, Lusa reports. The Portuguese news agency says the study is one of a series giving an academic basis for cooperation by China and the lusophone world. The institute published last week … Continue reading "City University of Macau to publish study on Guinea-Bissau"
16 June 2021
Power Construction Corp. of China Ltd (PowerChina) says a subsidiary will carry out a trial with a view to improving two solar farms in Brazil. CGN Brazil Energy Holdings Ltd, an arm of state-owned China General Nuclear Power Corp., has contracted the subsidiary, SEPCO1 Electric Power Construction Co. Ltd, to improve inverters attached to five … Continue reading "PowerChina to try out improvements to solar farms in Brazil"
16 June 2021
Guangdong and Macao will continue to bolster effort in order to realise national strategies, while stepping up pragmatic cooperation for promoting people’s well-being. The latest Guangdong-Macao Cooperation Joint Conference was held today via video link. The Chief Executive, Mr Ho Iat Seng, and the Governor of Guangdong, Mr Ma Xingrui, headed respective delegations taking part … Continue reading "Four major directions for next phase of Guangdong-Macao cooperation"
16 June 2021
Three aspects of the intangible cultural heritage of Macao, including Macanese cuisine and theatre in Patuá, have been added to the Chinese official list of national intangible cultural heritage, the Macao Cultural Affairs Bureau says. The bureau announced in writing that the State Council, or cabinet, proclaimed the additions, all proposed by Macao, last week. … Continue reading "Aspects of Macanese culture achieve national recognition"
16 June 2021
Macao Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Ao Ieong U has promised that the Macao SAR Government will invest more in higher education with a view to making the city a centre for tuning out people bilingual in Chinese and Portuguese, the Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) says. The institute issued a written statement quoting Ms … Continue reading "Macao govt means to invest more in turning out bilinguists"
15 June 2021
Cabo Verde is about to take delivery of its first 50,000 doses of a vaccine against COVID-19 supplied by Sinopharm Group Co. Ltd of China, Lusa reports, citing Cabo Verdean Health Minister Arlindo do Rosário. The Portuguese news agency quotes Mr do Rosário as saying on Wednesday that the order will raise to almost 200,000 … Continue reading "Cabo Verde to receive first doses of Sinopharm vaccine"
15 June 2021
Brazilian miner Mineração Buritirama SA has taken an order from China Minmetals Corp. for a 10-year supply of manganese, Valor Económico reports. Mineração Buritirama will supply the manganese at the rate of 1.5 million tonnes a year, and the Chinese state-owned trading company will make an advance payment of US$400 million, according to a report … Continue reading "Mineração Buritirama sells China 15 mln tonnes of manganese"
15 June 2021
S&P Global Platts Analytics forecasts that Brazilian exports of soybeans will be greater this month than a year ago, because of strong demand in China. The monitor of commodities markets says in a report it published on Tuesday that Chinese demand for soybeans has leapt as pig farming there recovers from an outbreak of African … Continue reading "June exports of Brazilian soybeans tipped to grow"
11 June 2021
The average price per transaction paid by Chinese buyers of real estate in Portugal last year was over 373,000 euros (about US$454,000), the most paid by buyers of any foreign nationality, the Notícias ao Minuto website reports, citing the findings of a study by the Portuguese Resorts Association. Among the various sets of foreign buyers … Continue reading "Chinese buyers splash out on real estate in Portugal in 2019"
11 June 2021
Brazilian video streaming service Globoplay has shown online a documentary about the effort to vaccinate the people of the central Chinese city of Wuhan against COVID-19 and so restore life there to normal, the China Daily reports. The Chinese state-run newspaper says the video was the fifth in a series of documentaries called “The Vaccine … Continue reading "Globoplay documentary looks at vaccination drive in Wuhan"
11 June 2021
The branch of the Confucius Institute at the University of Lisbon has held the Portuguese heat of the 20th Chinese Bridge, an annual contest among students of Chinese language and culture around the world, the Chinese Embassy in Lisbon says. The embassy, one of the organisers, says in a written statement issued on Tuesday that … Continue reading "Portuguese heat of Chinese language contest held in Lisbon"
10 June 2021
Representatives of the Portugal-China SMEs Chamber of Commerce and the Angola-China Chamber of Commerce will sign tomorrow a cooperation agreement, the Sino-Portuguese chamber says. The chamber announced in writing that the signing will be a feature of the celebration of the first anniversary of its founding, to be held in Condeixa-a-Nova in central Portugal, and … Continue reading "Sino-Portuguese, Sino-Angolan chambers agree to cooperate"
