Last Sunday, Brazil bid farewell to the first stage of the Men’s 2022 Volleyball Nations League (VNL) in defeat. Brazil was beaten by China by 3-0 (25/23, 31/29, and 25/23). This was the first victory in this iteration of the competition.

The Consul-General of Portugal in Macao and Hong Kong, Paulo Cunha-Alves, praised the Portuguese resilience in fighting the pandemic, as well as the work of the Portuguese Agency for Foreign Investment and Commerce (AICEP) and IPOR – Portuguese Institute of the Orient, on the Day of Portugal, Cames and the Portuguese Communities Day.

The Chinese smartphone brand OPPO has just appointed Nicolau Mesquita as its new head of Sales in Portugal. In fact, the brand has been present in Portugal since 2020 and has been investing in its local development.

The University of Macau (UM) Library held on last Tuesday a preservation ceremony for a rare Portuguese manuscript titled ‘Official Report of the Embassy of King John V of Portugal to Emperor Yongzheng in 1725-1728’.

According to the final findings of the 2021 Census revealed last Tuesday, the people born in Portugal accounted for 0.3% of Macau’s total population in August of last year.

Flixbus, a German operator of express passenger transport, in partnership with the Portuguese company Auto Viação Feirense, launched on last Tuesday a service that will provide completely carbon neutral express travels, connecting the cities of Porto, Vila Real, Amarante and Bragança.

Last Thursday, the Crateús campus of Brazil’s Federal University of Ceará (UFC) – Crateús campus officially opened the Engine Lab, created in partnership with the Chinese company Huawei, and the Mandacaru.dev lab, built with the support of B3 (stock exchange), BLK Sistemas Financeiros and PDtec.

A group of students from a Chinese school in Macau have been recording videos, which started to be shown on buses of the city to promote Portuguese culture through proverbs.

LongPing High-Tech, the Brazilian subsidiary of LongPing AgriScience, plans to quintuple its seed production capacity from 4 million to 20 million bags, aiming to lead in the corn seed market. The work will be completed by September.

Laiye is a Chinese artificial intelligence company created by Yichuan Hu and Guanchun Wang in 2015. As the demand for hyperautomation with technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotic process automation grows, the company has kicked off its internationalization plan and its operations in Brazil.

Nine fine-stroke peony paintings from Heze, the home city of the peony in Shandong Province, were established officially on this Monday in Colombo, located in the Paraná state of Brazil.

The Brazilian company Vast Infraestrutura and PetroChina International (Hong Kong) Corporation Limited, an affiliate of PetroChina International Company Limited (PetroChina Intl.) signed this week a long-term contract to run transshipment operations at Vast’s terminal in Açu Port, in São João da Barra in Rio de Janeiro state. The agreement foresees the transshipment involving vessels like Aframax, Suezmax, and VLCC.