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Trade between China and Portuguese-speaking countries grows 32.64% in January/February

18 April 2017
Trade between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries reached US$14.844 million in January February, an increase of 32.64% compared to the same period of 2016.

Forum Macau trains 150 professionals from Portuguese-speaking countries in 2017

18 April 2017
The training center of Forum Macau will train about 150 people at the five colloquia it plans to organise this year on productive capacity, financial cooperation, trade laws, traditional medicine and tourism administration, said Xu Yingzhen, the secretary general since June 2016.

New Chinese ambassador in Guinea-Bissau presents credentials to the President of the Republic

13 April 2017
The new ambassador of the People's Republic of China in Guinea-Bissau, Jin Hongjun, on Wednesday presented his credentials to the President of the Republic, José Mario Vaz.

Mozambique government expects economy to grow 5.5% in 2017

13 April 2017
Mozambique's economy is expected this year to grow by 5.5%, with a "remarkable contribution" from the financial sector.

Chief Executive wants more synergies between One Belt, One Road and the Macau platform

11 April 2017
Macau Chief Executive Chui Sai On said it is necessary to combine the action of China's One Belt, One Road initiative with the Service Platform for Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries.

Entrepreneurs from CPLP and China meet in Cabo Verde in June

31 March 2017
Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) from 16 to 18 June will host a meeting between businesspeople of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) and China under the theme "Promoting opportunities for economic cooperation between China and the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries," Cape Verdean investment agency Cabo Verde TradeInvest said onThursday. Ana Lima Barber also told the Inforpress news agency that the meeting is part of the framework to strengthen economic and business cooperation between China and the CPLP and aims to promote business opportunities in each country.

São Tomé and Príncipe becomes a fully-fledged member of Forum Macau

30 March 2017
São Tome and Príncipe was admitted on Wednesday as member of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macau), announced the secretary general of the institution, Xu Yingzhen at the end of a meeting held in Macau.

Lusophone Journalism Prize awards 10,000 euros for the best report on Macau

30 March 2017
The best journalism about Macau will now be annually awarded a prize of 10,000 euros, under a partnership between the Portuguese Press Club and Portuguese-language newspaper Jornal Tribuna de Macau (JTM), announced on Wednesday in Macau José Rocha Dinis, the JTM manager. The Lusophone Journalism Award for all media professionals from Portuguese-speaking countries, is aimed mainly at "encouraging the development of the Portuguese language," said the JTM manager on the sidelines of a conference on "The role the press is losing" held at the Macau Military Club.

Chinese companies invest over US$50 billion in Portuguese-speaking countries

27 March 2017
The investment of Chinese companies in Portuguese-speaking countries totals US$50 billion and the value of contracts in these countries exceeds US$90 billion, said the Deputy Secretary-General of Forum Macau appointed by China.

Portugal appoints Deputy Secretary-General and new delegate to Forum Macau

27 March 2017
Economist Rodrigo Manuel Ferreira Brum will take on the role of Deputy Secretary-General of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macau) at the suggestion of Portugal, the Consul General of Portugal in Macau said on Friday. The Consul General Vítor Sereno also said the delegate of the Agency for Investment and Foreign Trade of Portugal in Macau, Maria João Bonifácio, will be the new delegate for Portugal at Forum Macau, replacing him in the role.

Road between Buba and Catió in Guinea-Bissau will be asphalted

27 March 2017
The President of Guinea-Bissau, José Mário Vaz, on Saturday presided over the laying of the first stone of works to widen and lay asphalt on the road linking the cities of Buba and Catió, both located in the far south of the country. Laying the asphalt on the road, which is 60 kilometres long, will, according to the President, improve the living conditions of the population and facilitate the transport of goods, especially agricultural products.

Two Chinese medical teams are working in Guinea-Bissau

22 March 2017
Guinea-Bissau is the only country that has benefited from the simultaneous presence of two Chinese medical teams, the Chinese ambassador in the country said at the end of an audience granted by the country's President, José Mario Vaz. The two medical teams are working at the Central Military Hospital in Bissau and in Canchungo Hospital in the north of the country, providing consultation services and treatments at no cost to the Guinean state.

Trade between China and Portuguese-speaking countries rises 7.52% in January

10 March 2017
Trade between China and Portuguese-speaking countries totalled US$8.281 billion in January 2017, which was a year-on-year increase of 7.52%, according to official figures from China released by Forum Macau. Angola and Brazil accounted in January for 92% of trade between China and the eight Portuguese-speaking countries with a total of US$7.625 billion.

Guinea-Bissau TV station to receive equipment from China

8 March 2017
The government of Guinea-Bissau plans to make a request to the Chinese authorities to equip the West African country's public television channel with cameras and editing units, the Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau said in Bissau. Umaro Sissoco Embaló said at a meeting with workers of the Guinea-Bissau Television that the outgoing Chinese ambassador, Wang Hua, promised to discuss with his government the possibility that the country will finance the construction of a building to house all Guinean media outlets.

China and Guinea-Bissau analyse strengthening of cooperation

6 March 2017
A government delegation from China this weekend started a working visit to Guinea-Bissau, during which the two countries will review their friendship and cooperation and plan to increase their relationship. The Chinese delegation, headed by the Director General of the Department for African relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Ling Song Tiang, was received by the Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló.

Forum Macau meets in Beijing with ambassadors of the Portuguese-speaking countries

2 March 2017
The ambassadors of Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde (Cape Verde), Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and Timor-Leste (East Timor) in China expressed the appreciation of their respective governments for the results achieved in economic and trade cooperation between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries, according to official information published in Macau.

China starts building biomass power plant in Guinea-Bissau in March

23 February 2017
Preliminary work for the construction of the biomass power plant in Mansoa, central Guinea-Bissau, will begin in March, with the arrival of Chinese technicians, announced the Guinean representative of Chinese company Shenyang Lan Sa Trading Co Ltd, which is financing the project.

China pays for football stadium repairs in Guinea-Bissau

20 February 2017
Work to repair the electrical system of the "24 de Setembro" football stadium in Guinea-Bissau, has been completed, under a contract costing 500 million CFA francs (about US$810,000) supported by the government of China, said the director of the sports facility.

Macau plans to build Services Complex for Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries

17 February 2017
Twelve companies have submitted proposals to the public tender for design and construction of the Services Complex for Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries, said the Macau Lands, Public Works and Transport Bureau. The future Services Complex will be located in central area of the Macau peninsula an area of ​​about 14,200 m2, and the construction work is likely to start in the third quarter of 2017 and have a maximum deadline of 20 months.

Portugal is economically the freest of the eight Portuguese-speaking countries

16 February 2017
Portugal is the Portuguese-speaking country placed highest in the Index of Economic Freedom of the American Heritage Foundation and Timor-Leste (East Timor) is classified lowest, according to the report for 2017 released by the foundation. Portugal was included in the group of moderately free countries, in fact the only one of eight Portuguese-speaking nations, but fell by 2.5 points compared to its score for 2016, with 62.6 points and now standing in 77th place out of 180 countries.
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