China Three Gorges Corp. (CTG) has paid 220.3 million euros (about US$260.8 million) for 66.7 million more shares in Energias de Portugal SA (EDP), which the Portuguese electricity company is issuing to raise capital, EDP announced on Wednesday.

The authorities in the northwestern Angolan province of Uíge will begin in the next few days setting up a laboratory to be fitted out by Chinese biotechnology company BGI Group with the capacity to test up to 2,000 samples a day for the Covid-19 virus, Angop reports, quoting Angola’s Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda.

Governments and other investors from Portuguese-speaking Countries could issue green bonds in Macao and Hong Kong, according to Jacky So Yuk-Chow, a finance professor at the University of Macau’s Faculty of Business Management.

Coal miner Ncondezi Energy Ltd has delivered a study into how it will integrate the power station it plans to build in the northern province of Tete into Mozambique’s grid.

Agribusiness consultancy StoneX expects soy production in Brazil to grow by 8 per cent to a record 132.6 million tonnes next season as farmers expand acreage to meet strong Chinese demand, Reuters reports.

Macao Legislative Assembly Member José Pereira Coutinho has called for long-haul air services between Macao and the rest of the world – in particular, the Portuguese-speaking world, Ponto Final reports.

Brazilian miner of iron ore Vale SA is thinking about loading its very large ore carriers, called Valemax ships, at the northern Brazilian port of Alcântara, where the water is deep enough for them, the South China Morning Post reports, citing port operator Grão-Pará Multimodal (GPM).

Chinese state-owned contractor Shanghai Construction Group Co. Ltd should complete this year the grain depot and processing facility that it began building last year in Baucau, in northeastern Timor Leste, the Chinese Embassy in Dili says.

The University of Macau says its annual summer course in Portuguese, which this year was taught online for the first time, was completed by over 90 percent of the 180 or more students that it attracted around the world.

A Sino-Angolan farming venture, Luckyman Angola Desenvolvimento Lda, has availed of an Angolan government lending programme, borrowing 1.95 billion kwanzas (about US$3.38 million) to expand, Angop reports.

China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corp. (COFCO) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an arm of the World Bank, have got together to try to make sure the farming of soybeans in Brazil is sustainable, COFCO says.

The Portuguese Freight Forwarders Association, Apat, and the China International Freight Forwarders Association (CIFA) have agreed to cooperate for the mutual benefit of their members, Apat announced last week.