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14 January 2022
Industry data indicate that China bought half of all the pork Brazil exported last year, buying 533,700 tonnes or 3.9 per cent more than the year before. Figures given last week by an association of Brazilian producers of meat, ABPA, show Brazil sold pork to almost 100 countries last year, exporting 1.13 million tonnes, 11 … Continue reading "Brazilian pork sales to China grow to 533,700 tonnes in 2021"
14 January 2022
HMN Technologies Co. Ltd (HMN Tech) of China says it has finished laying a submarine telecommunications cable between Senegal and Cabo Verde. The 720 km of cable is called the Senegal Horn of the African Regional Express (SHARE) cable, and can carry data at the rate of 16 terabytes per second between the capital cities, … Continue reading "HMN Tech submarine telecoms cable links Senegal, Cabo Verde"
14 January 2022
The Portuguese tourism promotion agency, Turismo de Portugal, has tried to lure Chinese to visit the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, by offering them tastes of wine made on one of the islands, the Tuniu travel agency says. Among the eight varieties offered at a wine tasting in the eastern Chinese city … Continue reading "Chinese potential tourists tempted with taste of the Azores"
13 January 2022
A Sino-Timorese enterprise, Fung Ao Seu Unipessoal Lda, is set to begin planting rice on 1,600 hectares of land in the southern Timorese districts of Viqueque and Manatuto, ANTIL says. A Fung Ao Seu manager, Jaime Hanjam, says the company has spent about US$500,000 on farm implements imported from China, the Timorese state-run news agency … Continue reading "Sino-Timorese company to grow rice in southern Timor-Leste"
13 January 2022
The Macao Scientific and Cultural Centre in Lisbon and the University of Macau will jointly publish on Friday a book which sets out the characteristics of adults in China that study the Portuguese language, the centre says. The centre announced in writing that the book will be launched at a gathering online, which will hear … Continue reading "Study of Chinese learners of Portuguese due for publication"
13 January 2022
A model developed at the University of Macau Natural Language Processing & Portuguese-Chinese Machine Translation Laboratory has won five contests held at the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation, the university says. The laboratory and Alibaba Dharma Academy translators in China jointly developed an automatic translation quality evaluation model, used to mark translation tests, the University … Continue reading "University of Macau translation model a competition winner"
12 January 2022
An advance party of Brazilian Olympic Committee officials is due in Beijing on January 24 to pave the way for the Brazilian team that will compete in the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, Xinhua says, citing the committee. The committee says at least four Brazilians have qualified to compete so far, and that the first of … Continue reading "Brazilian team getting ready for Beijing Winter Olympics"
12 January 2022
Angolan President João Lourenço has approved a contract given to China Hengjian International Angola Co. Ltd to convert the Gika market in the northern Angolan city of Cabinda into a public hospital, Novo Jornal says. An official announcement says the contractor will be paid 1.2 billion kwanzas (US$2.18 million), the Angolan newspaper reported last Friday. … Continue reading "Guangdong Hengjian unit to turn Angolan market into hospital"
12 January 2022
Law firms Rato, Ling, Lei & Cortés, or Lektou, of Macao, and Miranda & Associados, of Portugal, are getting together to give legal advice on dealings between China and Portuguese-speaking parts of Africa, the ECO website says. Lektou will join the Miranda Alliance, which brings together lawyers in 16 jurisdictions, and take charge of giving … Continue reading "Miranda Alliance of lawyers gets Lektou to cover China"
11 January 2022
The International Conference on Renewable Energies and Ocean Technologies (REOTech) will be held at the University of Porto in the northern Portuguese city of Oporto from September 12 to 14, the organisers say. The REOTech website says the conference is being jointly arranged by the University of Porto; the Portuguese structural integrity society, SPFIE; the … Continue reading "Portuguese, Brazilian, Chinese inputs for Oporto conference"
11 January 2022
Brazil exported 86.83 million tonnes of soybeans last year, 5.3 per cent more than the year before, and China bought almost 60 million tonnes of those exports, according to the Brazilian association of cereal exporters, Anec. Anec says in its annual report, published last week, that Brazilian exporters of soybeans were quick to respond to … Continue reading "China the biggest market for Brazilian soybean exports"
11 January 2022
Angolan President João Lourenço has said Chinese contractors are in charge of most big public infrastructure projects in his country, Angop reports. Mr Lourenço said in an interview last week that Chinese enterprises had the contracts to build the Caculo Cabaça hydroelectric power station, the Caio deep-water port, and the new international airport in Luanda, … Continue reading "Role of Chinese contractors in Angolan development stressed"
11 January 2022
The new Secretary-General of the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao), Mr Ji Xianzheng, arrived in Macao and took up office on January 10. Secretary-General Mr Ji served as Deputy Director of the Department for European Affairs of the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s … Continue reading "New Secretary-General of the Permanent Secretariat of Forum Macao, Mr Ji Xianzheng, takes office"
7 January 2022
Ringway Deputy General Manager Zhang Chunhong believes newly simplified customs procedures will make the process of exporting Ringway musical instruments from China to Brazil more predictable, Xinhua reports. For 15 years Ringway has been exporting to Brazil the instruments it makes in the eastern Chinese city of Changzhou, and last year its sales were worth … Continue reading "Ringway manager welcomes new, easier way to export to Brazil"
7 January 2022
A floating facility built in South Korea for producing and storing liquefied natural gas off northern Mozambique has arrived on schedule in Mozambican waters, Lusa says, citing the Mozambican National Petroleum Institute. The Portuguese news agency says the institute announced in writing that official clearance to use the helicopter pad on board is now being … Continue reading "Floating LNG production facility arrives off Mozambique"
7 January 2022
The Macao Economic and Trade Delegation in Lisbon now makes it easier for elderly Macao people living in or around the Portuguese capital to prove that they are still alive and thus eligible for Macao government benefits. The delegation issued on Tuesday a written statement announcing that from this month onward it will send staff … Continue reading "Help for elderly Macao people in Portugal to claim benefits"
7 January 2022
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the overall residential property price index for September – November 2021 decreased by 0.9% over the previous period (August – October 2021) to 266.7. The index for the Macao Peninsula (266.4) fell by 1.2% while that for Taipa & Coloane (268.0) rose by 0.8%. The … Continue reading "Macao residential property price index for September – November 2021"
6 January 2022
Official data show that annual growth of 28 per cent in exports to China, its main trading partner, helped give Brazil a trade surplus of US$61 billion last year, its biggest yet. Brazil exported goods worthUS$89.75 billion to mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao last year, and imported US$48.34 billion worth, 36.7 per cent more … Continue reading "Exports to China earn Brazil a record-breaking trade surplus"
6 January 2022
Official data indicate that the value of merchandise exports to Macao from Portuguese-speaking parts of the world grew to 643.3 million patacas (about US$80.1 million) in the first 11 months of last year, 3.2 per cent more than in the corresponding period the year before. Figures given by the Macao Statistics and Census Service last … Continue reading "Exports to Macao from lusophone world on upward trend"
6 January 2022
The Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) has celebrated 40 years since its founding by putting on a concert performed online by students in Macao, mainland China and the Portuguese-speaking world, the Macao Daily says. The performers were students at the MPI, at institutions in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and elsewhere in China, and at … Continue reading "Concert marks 40 years of the Macao Polytechnic Institute"
