The members of the board of the newly established Portugal-China SMEs Chamber of Commerce have taken office on Wednesday in a ceremony in the central Portuguese town of Condeixa-a-Nova, where the chamber will have its headquarters, Notícias de Coimbra reports.

Guiné-Bissau intends to seek an agreement with China about exploiting Guinéan fishing grounds, similar to an agreement between Guiné-Bissau and the European Union, Lusa reports, quoting Guinéan Minister of Fishing Malam Sambú as saying on Tuesday.

The Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI), the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and the Hong Kong University School of Professional and Continuing Education have formed a partnership to increase the teaching of the Portuguese language in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, MPI says.

Brazilian oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) sold 1.11 million tonnes of fuel oil last month, 231 percent more than a year earlier and the most in any month yet, BNAmericas reports, quoting Petrobras Chief Executive Roberto Castello Branco.

Representatives of the Mozambican and Chinese authorities have begun talks on financing the resumption of work on the Moamba Major Dam in southern Mozambique, Jornal Notícias reports, quoting Mozambican Public Works, Housing and Water Resources Minister João Machatine.

The Portuguese municipality of Cascais, near the country’s capital, Lisbon, has imported manufacturing units from China for making masks meant to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus among its people, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.

The Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) Centre for Portuguese Studies will hold a course online between June 30 and July 15 to train teachers of Portuguese as a foreign language, MPI says.

The amount of soybeans China imports rose to 9.38 million tonnes last month, 27.4 percent more than a year earlier, Reuters reports, citing figures given by the Chinese General Administration of Customs on Sunday.

The opening last October of a fishing port built with Chinese money in the central Mozambican city of Beira has improved business there for fishing enterprises big and small, and benefited the community at large, Jornal Notícias reports, citing the Secretary of State of the surrounding province of Sofala, Stella Zeca.

The last three of an order for 10 train sets for intercity passenger services in Angola, all built by Chinese state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corp. Ltd, will be delivered in a few weeks, Expansão reports, citing National Institute for Railways of Angola Director-General Ottoniel Manuel.

China was the biggest single source of money borrowed by Mozambique at the end of 2018, accounting for about US$2.1 billion or 39 percent of Mozambican public-sector external debt, O País reports.

The Cabo Verdean legislature has passed a bill to set up a maritime special economic zone on and around the island of São Vicente, which China will back, A Nação reports.