27 July 2020
The University of Macau (UM) held an online opening ceremony for its 34th Portuguese Summer Course. This year’s course continues to attract students and professionals from all over the world. Through video conference and pre-recorded videos, Ambassador Paulo Cunha Alves, consul general of Portugal in Macao and Hong Kong; Prof Rui Martins, vice rector of UM; … Continue reading "UM’s online Portuguese summer course attracts people from around the world"
24 July 2020
Chinese maker of electrical appliances and electronics TCL Electronics Holdings Ltd said on Tuesday it has doubled to 80 percent its stake in its joint venture in Brazil, SEMP TCL. TCL issued a written announcement saying the Brazilian competition authority, CADE, has permitted the acquisition on condition that the period of a non-competition agreement is … Continue reading "TCL takes majority stake in its Brazilian joint venture"
24 July 2020
Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva of Cabo Verde says the Portelinha public housing complex on the Cabo Verdean island of São Vicente should be ready for occupation by next April. The Cabo Verdean government issued a written statement quoting Mr Correia e Silva as saying while visiting the site of the complex that the … Continue reading "Chinese builder to have Cabo Verdean homes finished in April 2021"
24 July 2020
Mozambique has resumed exports of pigeon peas and mungo beans to China and Dubai after a hiatus of several months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Jornal Notícias reports, citing a Mozambican official, Mohamed Valá. The Mozambican newspaper quotes Mr Valá, director-general of Mozambique’s grain production regulator ICM, as saying his country is resuming exports of … Continue reading "Mozambique resumes exports of produce to China, Dubai"
23 July 2020
Chinese shipbuilder BOMESC Offshore Engineering Co. Ltd says its subsidiary in the northeastern Chinese city of Tianjin has clinched the contract to build part of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for MODEC Offshore Production Systems (Singapore) Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of MODEC Inc. of Japan. BOMESC told the Shanghai Stock Exchange on … Continue reading "BOMESC subsidiary to build FPSO for deployment off Brazil"
23 July 2020
Clinical trials of CoronaVac, a potential vaccine against the Covid-19 virus developed by Sinovac Biotech Ltd of China, begun on Monday in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, Agência Brasil reports. The Brazilian state-run news agency says 890 volunteers there will receive a first dose of the vaccine, to be followed by a second dose … Continue reading "São Paulo starts trials of Sinovac Biotech Covid-19 vaccine"
23 July 2020
The European Council says it has approved a protected designation of origin agreement between the European Union and China which covers food and drink. The council issued a written announcement on Monday saying the agreement will ensure that 100 sorts of European product are protected in China. The agreement covers five types of Portuguese wine … Continue reading "Sino-EU protected designation of origin deal makes progress"
22 July 2020
Pensana Rare Earths Plc of Australia announced on Monday that it has agreed to begin negotiations on giving state-owned China Great Wall Industry Corp. the engineering, procurement and construction contract for a rare earths mine in the central Angolan municipality of Longonjo. Pensana told the Australian Securities Exchange that it will seek financing for the … Continue reading "China Great Wall to be involved in Angolan rare earths mine"
22 July 2020
China last week donated over 8,000 items of sportswear which will be distributed to youth associations, charities and local governments in São Tomé e Príncipe, STP-Press reports. The São-Toméan state-run news agency quotes Chinese Ambassador to São Tomé Wang Wei as saying the São Toméan Ministry of Youth, Sports and Entrepreneurship, the General Administration of … Continue reading "China makes gift of sportswear to São Tomé e Príncipe"
22 July 2020
Over 100 teachers of Portuguese as a foreign language in the Asia-Pacific region enrolled for a free course of instruction taught online by the Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) between June 30 and July 15, the institute says. A written announcement issued by MPI says the course was taught to a bigger audience of teachers of … Continue reading "Macao poly online course draws teachers of Portuguese"
21 July 2020
The Angolan government and Chinese biotechnology company BGI Group have struck a deal on equipping five new Angolan laboratories for testing for the Covid-19 virus, Xinhua reports. The Chinese government-run news agency says the new laboratories will have the capacity to test up to 6,000 samples a day for Covid-19, 10 times the present capacity … Continue reading "Covid-19 testing labs in Angola to have Chinese equipment"
21 July 2020
Rio de Janeiro football club Flamengo sold Chinese and Portuguese television broadcasters the rights to air the second leg of its local derby match against Fluminense in the Rio de Janeiro state championship, the club’s own television station, FlaTV, reports. FlaTV quotes the president of Flamengo, Rodolfo Landim, as saying the club is trying to … Continue reading "Rio de Janeiro football derby shown on TV in China"
21 July 2020
A Timorese government official, Merício Juvenal dos Reis, has expressed hope that work on a Chinese project to bring digital television to Timor-Leste will resume as soon as possible, the Chinese Embassy in Dili says. The embassy issued a written statement quoting Mr Juvenal dos Reis as saying resumption of the project would increase Sino-Timorese … Continue reading "Chinese project to give Timor-Leste digital TV still wanted"
20 July 2020
The construction of a big hospital on the Cabo Verdean island of São Vicente, which China is financing, will be finished in a few years, Expresso das Ilhas reports, quoting Cabo Verdean Health Minister Arlindo do Rosário. The Cabo Verdean newspaper quotes Mr do Rosário as saying the hospital will have much-needed facilities for dialysis, … Continue reading "China paying for hospital being built on Cabo Verdean island"
20 July 2020
The second ship registered at the free trade port of Yangpu, in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan, has sailed on its maiden voyage, the Hainan Daily reports. The Hainan government-run newspaper says the China COSCO Shipping Corp. Ltd freighter, displacing 62,000 tonnes, was registered on Sunday and three days later was named the … Continue reading "Another ship registered at Yangpu bound for Brazil"
20 July 2020
A Chinese medical team at the Maputo Central Hospital in Mozambique has delivered by caesarean section a baby whose mother had a rare late abdominal pregnancy, the Sichuan News website reports. The website, run by the government of the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, says the peculiarity of the pregnancy was detected only in its … Continue reading "Chinese doctors perform tricky operation in Mozambique"
17 July 2020
Beijing Capital Airlines of China is resuming its direct commercial flights between China and Portugal after a hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Shaanxi Daily reports. The Chinese newspaper says a Beijing Capital Airlines 250-seat Airbus A330 airliner will make one return flight a week between the central Chinese city of Xi’an and Lisbon, … Continue reading "Beijing Capital Airlines resumes China-Portugal service"
17 July 2020
Kintor Pharmaceutical Ltd of China is supplying a male sex hormone blocker for a clinical trial in Brazil of a treatment for Covid-19, which is being led by Applied Biology Inc. of the United States, the BioWorld website reports. The website says the purpose of the trial is to confirm whether proxalutamide can reduce the … Continue reading "Kintor Pharmaceutical involved in Brazilian clinical trial"
17 July 2020
The authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong intend to set up on the island of Hengqin, which abuts Macao, an office for collaboration by prosecutors in China and the Portuguese-speaking world, the Nanfang Daily reports. The newspaper quotes the senior prosecutor on the island, Zhou Liren, as saying the office will better protect … Continue reading "Hengqin to have office for intl collaboration by prosecutors"
16 July 2020
The Portugal-China SMEs Chamber of Commerce and an association of businesses in the northern Portuguese region of Resende have agreed to cooperate in supporting the development of the region, A Verdade reports. The Portuguese newspaper quotes a written statement issued by the business association, the Associação Empresarial de Resende (AER) as saying the agreement is meant to … Continue reading "Sino-Portuguese chamber agrees to help Resende businesses"
