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Beijing Capital Airlines resumes flights to Portugal on 24 April

7 April 2020
China's Beijing Capital Airlines plans to resume flights to Portugal on 24 April, with a weekly Beijing Daxing - Xi’an - Lisbon, using an Airbus A330-200 aircraft, travel and tourism news agency Presstur reported.

Portugal requests support from China to acquire equipment and medical products

2 April 2020
The government of China is available to help Portugal to acquire equipment and other types of medical products in the country that is needed to help combat the new coronavirus, the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Portuguese counterpart Augusto Santos Silva, according to Chinese news agency Xinhua.

BNU Macau “saves” purchase of 500 Chinese ventilators by Portugal

31 March 2020
An order placed with a Chinese company for 500 hospital-grade ventilators to treat victims of Covid-19 in Portugal, was threatened by an offer from another country, but was saved at the last minute by the BNU bank in Macau, according to a source from the bank.

Portuguese-speaking countries look to respond to Covid-19 pandemic

27 March 2020
The parliament of Timor-Leste on Thursday unanimously approved the declaration of a state of emergency in the country, which is expected to be in place for a month, from Saturday 28 March, a measure adopted in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Bank of Portugal expects Portuguese economy to contract by real rate of 3.7% in 2020

27 March 2020
Portugal is expected to record a drop in its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 3.7%, according to the Bank of Portugal, which published is Economic Bulletin for March in Lisbon on Thursday, including projections for the Portuguese economy for the 2020-2022 period.

José de Mello Group takes on loan from Bank of China

25 March 2020
Portuguese healthcare group José de Mello Saúde, which owns the private CUF hospitals and clinics has signed a financing agreement with the Bank of China in the amount of €33 million, according to a filing with the Portuguese Capital Markets Commission (CMVM).

São Tomé and Príncipe and Equatorial Guinea work together on oil and gas prospecting

24 March 2020
São Tomé and Príncipe and Equatorial Guinea have signed an agreement for the creation of a Special Joint Exploration Zone for oil and gas blocks off the coast of the two countries, according to a statement recently released by the African Energy Chamber.

Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Principe have no known cases of Covid-19

23 March 2020
Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe seem to be the only Portuguese-speaking countries in which to date there have been no cases of Covid-19, according to the most recent data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University in the USA.

Angola closes borders from 20 March

19 March 2020
Angola will close its air, land and sea borders to the movement of people from midnight on 20 March for 15 days, renewable for an equal period, depending on the progress of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a presidential decree.

Portuguese-speaking African countries extend preventive measures for Covid-19

18 March 2020
The President of São Tomé and Príncipe, Evaristo Carvalho, decreed on Tuesday a state of national emergency to prevent the spread of Covid-19, and the prime minister, Jorge Bom Jesus announced a ban on entry into the country of all foreign citizens, the STP-Press news agency reported.

Cabo Verde Airlines grounds aircraft from 18 March

18 March 2020
Cabo Verde Airlines has suspended all its operations from 18 March for a period of “at least 30 days," announced the airline in a statement issued on Tuesday in Praia.

Macau to quarantine visitors from the Schengen countries from 17 March

16 March 2020
The citizens of the 26 Schengen Area countries wishing to enter Macau will be subject to a quarantine period of 14 days from 17 March onwards, announced the health authorities of the special administrative region.

Construction of the port of Macuse in Mozambique starts in 2021

16 March 2020
The construction of the deep-water port of Macuse, in Mozambique’s Zambézia provine, is expected to start in 2021, the president of Mozambique Thai Logistic, Orlando Marques, the concessionaire company of the project announced last week in Quelimane.

Chinese group OPPO wants to expand presence in Portuguese mobile phone market

10 March 2020
Portugal, along with Germany, Belgium and Romania, is one of the European countries where Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp plans to expand this year for the sale of mobile phones, said the group's vice-president Shen Yiren.

Trade between China and Portuguese-speaking countries grows by 1.55% in 2019

28 February 2020
The value of trade between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries grew 1.55% year-on-year in 2019 to US$149.639 billion, according to official Chinese figures released by Forum Macau.

China Three Gorges reduces its stake in the capital of EDP – Energias de Portugal

27 February 2020
The China Three Gorges group has reduced its stake in the shareholder structure of the EDP - Energias de Portugal group to 21.47% with the sale of a block of shares of 1.8%, according to a market statement.

The representative of Macau in Lisbon nominated to the WTO

27 February 2020
The former secretary of the Government of Macau for Social Affairs and Culture, Alexis Tam Chon Weng, has been nominated to the post of head of the Economic and Trade Delegation of Macau at the World Trade Organization (WTO), under an order of the Chief Executive.

Mozambican air carrier postpones flights to Portugal until June

26 February 2020
Mozambican airline Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (LAM) has postponed the return of flights to Lisbon, Portugal until 2 June after initially scheduling the move for 31 March, the managing-director of the carrier said in Maputo.

Consortium from China interested in Portuguese highway company Brisa – Auto-estradas de Portugal

24 February 2020
A consortium led by the China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) will be one of the parties interested in buying the stake of Portuguese Group José de Mello Capital in highway company Brisa - Auto-estradas de Portugal, financial news agency Bloomberg reported.

Portuguese company linked to Macau joins efforts to combat coronavirus

13 February 2020
Hospital equipment being used by medical teams involved in combating the epidemic of coronavirus, a strain now named Covid-19 by the World Health Organisation, started to arrive this week in Macau and the cities of the Greater Bay, sent from Portugal by the Quinta da Marmeleira company owned by businessman Wu Zhiwei.
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