8 October 2021
A subsidiary of West China Cement has struck a deal with the Ministry of Industry and Trade in Mozambique to invest US$800 million in four new industrial facilities there, Carta de Moçambique reports. The Mozambican newspaper quotes Mozambican Minister of Industry and Trade Carlos Mesquita as saying West China Cement has scouted the provinces of … Continue reading "West China Cement to put US$800 mln into Mozambican projects"
8 October 2021
A delegation led by Deputy Secretary-General of the Permanent Secretariat of Forum Macao Mr Ding Tian travelled to the city of Chengdu in Sichuan province from September 22 to 25. The Permanent Secretariat held the “Enjoy Macau, enjoy opportunities from the Portuguese-speaking Countries” presentation session. The Permanent Secretariat also, together with the Macao Trade and … Continue reading "Permanent Secretariat of Forum Macao took part in Macao Week in Sichuan Chengdu, jointly held a session to boost exchanges between Portuguese-speaking Countries and mainland Chinese provinces and cities"
29 September 2021
President Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique has formally opened the digital television studios built for state-run broadcaster Televisão de Moçambique in the northern Mozambican city of Pemba, his government says. An official written statement quotes Mr Nyusi as saying at the opening last week that the studios are a manifestation of the changeover to digital television … Continue reading "President opens digital TV studios in northern Mozambique"
28 September 2021
The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China wishes to work with Macao to look into prospects for economic engagement with the Portuguese-speaking world, the Macao SAR Government says. Guangxi Chairman Lan Tianli said so when he and Macao SAR Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng met in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu, according to … Continue reading "Guangxi seeks Macao help to engage with lusophone countries"
28 September 2021
The University of Macau held the 30th annual meeting of the Association of Portuguese Language Universities online because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the university says. The University of Macau, six other institutions of higher education in the city, and universities in eight lusophone countries were represented at the meeting, held over two days last week, … Continue reading "Association of Portuguese Language Universities meets"
27 September 2021
The “Macao Week in Sichuan•Chengdu” was grandly unveiled on 24 September to present a mega roadshow at Jiaozi Plaza, Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone in Chengdu until 27 September, to promote Macao’s diverse elements of tourism and commerce, showcase the rich diversity of “tourism +” and raise Macao’s profile as a healthy, safe and glamorous destination. … Continue reading "Macao Week in Sichuan•Chengdu” is grandly unveiled with fascinating program to promote Macao’s glamour as a safe and quality destination"
27 September 2021
Products of Portuguese-speaking parts of the world are on display in two of the booths set up for a roadshow now in Chengdu, in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan, the Macao Government Tourism Office says. The roadshow, in Jiaozi Plaza in the Chengdu Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone, is a manifestation of Macao Week in … Continue reading "Products of lusophone world on show in Macao Week in Sichuan"
24 September 2021
Among 40 institutions of higher education belonging to a new alliance of academic libraries in Macao and the lusophone world are five universities in Brazil, according to one of them, the Federal University of Minas Gerais. The university issued a written statement identifying the four other Brazilian members as the University of São Paulo, the … Continue reading "Brazilian universities join Macao-led library alliance"
24 September 2021
To foster Chengdu-Macao closer co-operation in trade in products and services, and enhance Macao’s role as a platform between China and Portuguese-speaking countries (PSC), the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) has introduced even more new elements and measures in the “Macao Week in Sichuan•Chengdu”. Nearly one third of roadshow exhibitors are Macao enterprises … Continue reading "IPIM Fosters Chengdu-Macao Closer Co-operation in Trade in Products and Services via the Macao Week"
24 September 2021
The University of Macau (UM) recently held virtually the 30th annual meeting of the Association of Portuguese Speaking Universities (Associação das Universidades de Língua Portuguesa, AULP). Titled ‘Dialogue of Cultures and Promotion of Portuguese Language Teaching in China’, the meeting attracted participants from Macao and eight countries. They included members of the Executive Council of AULP … Continue reading "UM holds annual meeting of AULP virtually"
23 September 2021
The Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, or IPIM, says its Invest Here website, intended to boost flows of investment between China and the Portuguese-speaking world, is now online, after a four-month trial. The Invest Here website gives information about Macao, the nine mainland Chinese cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and major … Continue reading "Macao website to spur international flows of investment"
21 September 2021
DH Mining Development Co. Lda of China will begin next year mining and processing graphite in Nipepe, in the northern Mozambican province of Niassa, Rádio Moçambique reports. The Mozambican state-run broadcaster quotes a provincial official, Silvino Bonomar, as saying DH Mining is investing US$30 million in the mine. Mr Bonomar said DH Mining was in … Continue reading "Chinese company soon to begin mining graphite in Mozambique"
20 September 2021
In order to stimulate the local investment environment, give full play to the unique advantage of Macao as a platform between China and Portuguese-speaking countries, and attract domestic and overseas enterprises to implement their business projects in Macao, the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) has launched web and mobile versions of “Invest Here” … Continue reading "IPIM Launches the “Invest Here” Website to Provide Investment Information on a Number of Cities"
16 September 2021
The Portuguese Language Communication Association in Macao begins today soliciting entries for a new contest among schoolchildren to write fiction in Portuguese and then illustrate it, inviting pupils at nine schools in the lusophone world to compete. The contest is open to school pupils aged between 10 and 12 in Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, … Continue reading "Lusophone school pupils invited to enter Macao story contest"
15 September 2021
The biggest solar farm in Mozambique, in the northern town of Metoro, will begin generating electricity by next January, Lusa reports. The Portuguese news agency says the solar farm cost 47.3 million euros (about US$55.8 million) to build. The farm will have 125,000 solar panels, made in China, which will give it a generating capacity … Continue reading "Chinese-made solar panels set to produce power in Mozambique"
10 September 2021
A prominent Portuguese financial adviser, Jorge Costa Oliveira, believes financial markets in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area have huge potential as a source of money for projects by companies in the Portuguese-speaking world. Mr Costa Oliveira, a member of the Portugal-China SMEs Chamber of Commerce Strategic Council and a former director of the Macao … Continue reading "Seek funds in South China, lusophone entrepreneurs advised"
9 September 2021
ADM, the operator of Mozambique’s airports, is recruiting staff to run the Chongoene Airport, newly built by China in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza, Carta de Moçambique reports, citing ADM President Emanuel Chaves. Mr Chaves told Mozambican state-run television broadcaster TVM on the sidelines of the Maputo International Fair, that ended on Sunday that … Continue reading "Staffing of Chinese-built airport in Mozambique begins"
8 September 2021
The master plan for the Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone on Hengqin Island, which abuts Macao, has been approved at the highest levels of the ruling party and government of China, Xinhua reports. The Chinese state-run news agency says the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council gave their approval last Sunday. The … Continue reading "Macao plan envisaging boost for intl trade gets green light"
8 September 2021
The inauguration ceremony for the “Different encounters” exhibition, featuring work by Mozambican artist José Estevão Manhiça, also known as “Vovo’s”, was held at the China-Portuguese-speaking Countries Commercial and Trade Service Platform Complex on Friday, September 3, at 6.30pm. The event was organised by the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum Macao, under the series “Lusophone Polychromes”, … Continue reading "Opening of exhibition by Mozambican artist José Estevão Manhiça as part of the ‘Lusophone Polychromes’ exhibition series"
6 September 2021
The finalists of the Contest for Promotional Videos on Portuguese-speaking Countries, a competition jointly hosted by the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum Macao and the Macao Polytechnic Institute, have been selected from entries made by 24 teams. The finalists will now vie for the most votes, via online voting, and the corresponding special prize. Online … Continue reading "Online voting begins for Contest for Promotional Videos on Portuguese-speaking Countries"
