The Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) Centre for Portuguese Studies has made accessible online textbooks for teaching the Portuguese language, along with other academic resources, the MPI says.

A party of 10 staff and students of the University of Macau Department of Portuguese have given over 100 school pupils in southwestern China three weeks of instruction in the language, the university says.

China has turned over to Timor-Leste the transmission system for terrestrial broadcasts there of digital television, ANTIL reports, citing the Timorese Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Social Communication.

Power Construction Corp. of China Ltd (PowerChina) says a subsidiary, Sinohydro Bureau 11 Co. Ltd, has completed an office building at the Macarretane Dam, part of an irrigation system in southern Mozambique.

Sporting Clube de Portugal says it has signed 19-year-old winger Monroe Shen Menglu, making her the first female Chinese professional footballer to play for a Portuguese club.

The authorities in the southern Chinese province of Hainan have held a meeting online to inform Portuguese companies about the free trade policy in the province, the biggest special economic zone in China, and opportunities to invest there, the Hainan Daily reports.

Macao, Portuguese and lusophone African architects have volunteered their services to help improve shanty towns in Brasília, Lusa reports, citing International Council of Portuguese Language Architects President Rui Leão.

The Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) says it is inviting the submission of academic papers for presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Encounter with the Human Sciences & The 4th LinCog – International Symposium on Language and Cognition.

A Chinese-led project should be ready by December to begin supplying water to the drought-parched southern Angolan province of Cunene, Jornal de Angola reports, citing Angolan National Institute for Water Resources Director-General Manuel Quintino.

The Brazil-China Sociocultural Institute, or Ibrachina, and the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, or IPIM, will work together to attract Chinese investment to Brazil after the COVID-19 pandemic is over, Ibrachina says.

The University of Macau Centre for Chinese History and Culture and the University of Macau Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre have jointly edited and published this year a series of comic books, each in Chinese, English and Portuguese, retelling Chinese traditional myths, legends and stories from history, the university says.

Official figures indicate that the amount of beef Brazil exported to China grew to 81,950 tonnes last month, 21.7 percent more than the month before and the most in any month on record, the Brazilian association of meat exporters, Abiec, says.