On Tuesday, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to Jose Ramos-Horta on his election as President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.

In the first quarter of 2022, China exported 37.2 GW of photovoltaic modules with an increase of 112% over the same period of last year, in which Brazil imported 4.9 GW of modules, with an 84% increase on last year’s 2.6 GW, according to a study by PV Infolink.

The brazilian mining company Vale received at the end of April its second 100% electric locomotive manufactured in China by CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive (CRRC ZELC), acorrding to Vale.

Under the contract regarding Brazil’s postal service, Aura Airlines in Spain started to operate several flights from China to Brazil in the first quarter of this year. The cooperation is a great success, as evidenced by new flights requested weekly and the four flights that have already been scheduled merely in May.

The luxury car dealer in Brazil Eurobike had opened the first dealer store of the Chinese car brand BYD in Brazil the week before, said the Chinese car company.

Petrobras said last Saturday that it has started producing oil and natural gas through FPSO Guanabara, the first definitive production system installed in the Mero field located in the Santos Basin pre-salt.

Brazil plans to restart the construction of the Angra 3 Nuclear Power Plant, which has been suspended since 2015, in the second half of this year. Now about 80 workers are already mobilized for the resumption of construction.

China’s smartphone brand Vivo launches two new smartphones in Portugal this Monday, the Vivo V23 and Vivo Y76, marking its official entry into the Portuguese smartphone market.

East Timor’s president-elect, José Ramos-Horta, has called on Portugal and Macau SAR to collaborate with the country to establish regular Lisbon-Macau-Dili flights.

The 17th batch of Chinese medical team to São Tomé and Príncipe launched the “Dental Fluoridation Project for the Prevention of Caries for Children in São Tomé” last Thursday and the launching ceremony was held at the Pantufo Primary School, according to China Central Television (CCTV).

Plataforma Macau, a bilingual weekly newspaper in Macau, launches the project “Homemade Macanese Recipes around the World”, and will publish videos and newspaper articles between April and June.

Official data indicate that Angola exported 98.3 million barrels of crude oil in the first quarter of this year, slightly less than in the preceding quarter, Angop says.