12 November 2021
Nearly 120 officials and businesspeople attended the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Area Global Conference 2021, the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, or IPIM, says. The institute issued a written statement saying the conference took place in Shanghai on Monday, during the 4th China International Import Expo, which ended yesterday. Those attending discussed the special economic zone … Continue reading "International function of Macao a talking point in Shanghai"
12 November 2021
The “2021 Guangdong & Macao Branded Products Fair” (2021GMBPF), jointly organised by the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) and the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, will be held at The Venetian Macao from 26 to 28 November. This year’s GMBPF will enhance its business matching activities, which will be held both online … Continue reading "GMBPF Gathers High-Quality Products from Guangdong and Macao to Help Enterprises Promote Their Brands"
12 November 2021
Given the new environment, new policies, new directions as well as new trends of tourism industry development, and in parallel with the Macao Special Administrative Region Government’s vision to build a world centre of tourism and leisure, Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) commissioned a research institution at the end of 2020 to examine the implementation … Continue reading "MGTO delivers first review study report on Macao Tourism Industry Development Master Plan"
9 November 2021
Representatives of 13 Portuguese vintners will attend this week the ProWine China 2021 trade fair under the auspices of the Portuguese wine industry association, ViniPortugal, the China Quality Daily reports. The Chinese state-run newspaper says the fair opens in Shanghai tomorrow and will end on Thursday. The report quotes ViniPortugal President Frederico Falcão as saying … Continue reading "Portuguese vintners to attend ProWine China fair yet again"
9 November 2021
The Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, or IPIM, says its two pavilions at the 4th China International Import Expo show the function of Macao as a place where China and the lusophone world can do business. The expo opened in Shanghai last Friday and will last until Wednesday. IPIM announced in writing last Thursday … Continue reading "IPIM pavilions in Shanghai show international role of Macao"
8 November 2021
The subsidiary in Angola of state-owned China Road and Bridge Corp. (CRBC) has taken the contract to develop the Marginal da Corimba waterfront, which will stretch southward from Luanda, Expansão reports. The Angolan newspaper quotes Angolan Minister of Public Works and Land Planning Manuel Tavares de Almeida as having said in May that the waterfront … Continue reading "CRBC to develop waterfront on south side of Angolan capital"
8 November 2021
The Portuguese Football Federation has awarded Wanda Sports, an arm of Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group, rights to develop sponsorship business for the Portuguese national team that will compete in the men’s football World Cup next year, Wanda Group says. Wanda Sports has the rights to develop such business in mainland China, Taiwan, Macao and Hong … Continue reading "Wanda Sports bags deal with Portuguese Football Federation"
8 November 2021
The Chief Executive, Mr Ho Iat Seng, met with leading officials of the Zhejiang Government in Hangzhou city, Zhejiang Province, in order to exchange views on how to extend bilateral ties. Mr Ho was there after attending, in Shanghai, the opening ceremony of the 4th China International Import Expo (CIIE). Mr Ho visited Shanghai and … Continue reading "Macao CE bolsters Zhejiang-Macao ties during Hangzhou visit"
8 November 2021
The Qualified Domestic Limited Partners Overseas Investment pilot scheme in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong may lead to greater Chinese investment in lusophone countries, coursed through Macao, the Macao Daily News reports, citing Chi Tenghui, an official of the Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone. The zone is on Hengqin, an island in Guangdong which is … Continue reading "Scheme tipped to spur Chinese investment in lusophone world"
5 November 2021
Trade in merchandise between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries reached US$131.408 billion in the period from January to August 2021. It represented a 43.85 percent increase year-on-year, according to data from China Customs. Portuguese-speaking Countries sold goods worth US$91.646 billion to China in the first eight months of 2021 – up by 38.26 percent year-on-year. The value of China’s merchandise exports … Continue reading "Trade between China, Portuguese-speaking Countries tops US$131.408bln in January-August 2021"
5 November 2021
Organized by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, the Traditional Music and Dance Performance in the Community, featured in the programme of the 3rd “Encounter in Macao – Arts and Cultural Festival between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries”, will be held on 6 and 7 November (Saturday and Sunday), featuring a total of 8 performances to be presented at … Continue reading "Traditional Music and Dance Performance in the Community in Arts and Cultural Festival between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries showcases the charm of Portuguese cultures and arts"
5 November 2021
Organized by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, the 3rd “Annual Arts Exhibition between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries”, featured in the programme of the 3rd “Encounter in Macao – Arts and Cultural Festival between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries”, will be inaugurated in November, showcasing the diverse manifestations and the cutting-edge development of contemporary visual arts in China and Portuguese-speaking … Continue reading "“Annual Arts Exhibition between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries” opens in November Diversified creations showcase the charm of contemporary art"
4 November 2021
The 6th Chinese Film Festival in São Paulo has opened, with the films being shown online as a precaution against spreading Covid-19, the China News Service (CNS) reports. The Chinese state-run news agency says the cultural authorities in the southeastern Brazilian state and the branch of the Confucius Institute at São Paulo State University are … Continue reading "6th Chinese Film Festival in São Paulo opens online"
4 November 2021
The Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, or IPIM, says products of Portuguese-speaking parts of the world will be on show at the next Macao-Guangzhou Products Fair. IPIM announced in writing that the institute and the Guangzhou Municipal Commission of Commerce will jointly hold the fair at the Poly World Trade Centre in the southern … Continue reading "Guangzhou fair to show products of Portuguese-speaking world"
4 November 2021
An exhibition in Macao this month and next will show 36 works by 17 artists living in lusophone countries, the Macao SAR Cultural Affairs Bureau says. Paintings, installations, photographs, videos and sculptures by artists in Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Timor-Leste will be on show, according to a … Continue reading "Macao exhibition to display works by 17 lusophone artists"
3 November 2021
China has agreed to support an emergency effort to improve the nutrition of mothers in Timor-Leste, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) says. The support, from the Chinese South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund, will help the UN agency give over 12,000 pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers in 13 Timorese municipalities a special diet to lessen the … Continue reading "China to help drive by WFP to feed Timorese mothers properly"
3 November 2021
Angolan Minister of State for Social Affairs Carolina Cerqueira has ritually broken ground for construction of a dam across the Ndúe River in the southern Angolan province of Cunene, Jornal de Angola reports. The newspaper says she performed the ceremony last Friday. The dam and the 75 km of conduits and 15 tanks associated with … Continue reading "PowerChina starts work on building dam in southern Angola"
3 November 2021
The inauguration ceremony for the “The Man and the Forest” exhibition, which features work by Brazilian artist Mr Reginaldo Pereira, was held at the China-Portuguese-speaking Countries Commercial and Trade Service Platform Complex, on Friday (October 29), at 6.30pm. The event was organised by the Permanent Secretariat of Forum Macao, under the “Lusophone Polychromes” exhibition series, … Continue reading "Opening of exhibition by Brazilian artist as part of the ‘Lusophone Polychromes’ exhibition series"
3 November 2021
The third in a series of festivals celebrating the arts and cultures to be found where China and the Portuguese-speaking world intersect will be held in Macao this month and next, the Macao SAR Cultural Affairs Bureau says. The bureau and the Macao Government Tourism Office are jointly putting on the festival, according to a … Continue reading "Macao to show off arts, cultures of China, lusophone world"
28 October 2021
Brazilian retailing chain Lojas Americanas SA intends to open this year a representative office in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, its first foothold in mainland China, O Globo reports. Lojas Americanas means to begin importing Chinese products sold online in Brazil, managing the process of getting the goods to the customer, according to a … Continue reading "Lojas Americanas of Brazil to open office in Shenzhen"
