The Macau International Fair and Products and Services Exhibition of Portuguese-speaking Countries (2022PLPEX) will promote companies from Portuguese-speaking countries, the organisers announced at a press conference on 18 October.

The China Trade Center Group’s team was in Piracicaba, on October 10th, to present the general characteristics of China to the region’s businessmen, at the headquarters of the Metallurgical, Mechanical, Electrical Material, Electronic, Steel and Foundry Industries Trade Union (SIMEPI), of Piracicaba, Saltinho and Rio das Pedras.

The JTZ Motos do Brasil has just increased its portfolio of brands in Brazil. The company starts to sell in the country the quadricycles from Chongqing Huansong Industry Co. Ltd, a Chinese manufacturer also known as Hisun Motors.

The Chinese giant presented its best smartband, the Xiaomi Mi Band 7 Pro, having been unveiled globally during the manufacturer’s last event in Munich. Now, this product has just officially arrived in Portugal.

The season of the world table tennis circuit is heading towards its final stretch, which further increases the importance of competitions such as WTT Champions in Macau, which takes place between October 19 and 23.

The first of the 18 compositions bought by Metro do Porto for almost 50 million euros has already been dispatched by the Chinese CRRC Tangshan and is on its way to Portugal. The metro has a capacity for 334 passengers and a maximum speed of 80 km/h. This is the first urban subway project from China to be exported to the European Union.

The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) and the Chinese sports streaming platform K-Ball, belonging to the Chinese Sports Media group, formalized in September another contrat. The company will show matches of the Brasileirão (the commercial name for the Brazilian Soccer Championship) three times a week. With this, the Brazilian matches will return to the Chinese audience after five years.

Angola is the second largest producer of diamonds in the world. Angolan diamonds are mainly mined in the province of Lunda Norte and represent about 20% of the world’s diamond production. The Angolan diamond industry has been booming in recent years.

The new director of the Department of Portuguese argued that the University of Macau (UM) has great potential to become the great institution for teaching the language in Asia.

The 23rd edition of Brazilian reality show BBB (BBB 23) is scheduled to debut on January 16, but TV Globo is already negotiating with brands to display their products in the most watched house in Brazil.

Celeti, a Brazilian distributor of hardware and services for internet service providers, has strengthened its partnership with Huawei with a focus on Wi-Fi 6. This technology, which brings up to four times higher bandwidth and latency compared to older standards, enables Wi-Fi 6 to complement 5G in indoor areas and help ISPs compose a higher value-added offering.

Currently, 11 Confucius Institutes and 1 Confucius Room have been founded in Brazil, ranking first among Latin American countries.