A Chinese-owned company in Angola, Niodior Indústria, has opened a factory in Luanda for making motor tricycles suitable for Angolan roads at the rate of 11,000 a year, Jornal de Angola says.

Distributor Irrimac will launch in the Portuguese market this month the eC35 electric vehicle made by Dongfeng Sokon Automobile (DFSK Motor) of China, the Motor24 website says.

The Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, or IPIM, and the University of Macau Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre have jointly held a session intended to spur students to make the most of opportunities arising from the function of Macao as a place where enterprises in China and the Portuguese-speaking world can conduct business, IPIM says.

The Macao Scientific and Cultural Centre in Lisbon says it will begin teaching online this weekend a course on the basics of Chinese calligraphy.

A subsidiary of Chinese state-owned Sinohydro Corp. has won two contracts, together worth 9.3 billion kwanzas (about US$19.7 million), to improve the water supply in the eastern Angolan province of Lunda Sul, Novo Jornal says.

Prime Minister Nuno Gomes Nabiam of Guinea-Bissau hopes mains electricity will be available to all Guineans by the end of this year, ANG says.

Brazilian Ambassador to China Paulo Estivallet de Mesquita has emphasised the importance to his country of all the projects there pursued by China Railway International Group Ltd (CRIG), the company says.

Chinese phonemaker Vivo Communication Technology Co. Ltd intends to open an office in Lisbon, the Sapo Tek website says, citing a Vivo executive in Iberia, Carlos Mellado.

The World Bank has approved the disbursement of US$40,000 to build a bridge for pedestrians and motorcycles over the Mangui river on the African island of São Tomé, the Jornal Tropical website says.

China has given São Tome and Príncipe medical and other supplies for the care of São Toméans vulnerable to ill-health, inparticular women, children and the disadvantaged, the Chinese Embassy in São Tomé says.

Construction of the Chinese-built Mozambique-China Cultural Centre is now complete, the Chinese Embassy in Maputo says.

Representations of paintings by famed 20th-century Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral now decorate the façade and other exterior surfaces of the building housing the Brazilian Embassy in Beijing, the embassy says.