Over 1,100 exhibitors in Portugal, Brazil, mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Canada, Singapore and Japan have signed up for three trade fairs that begin online tomorrow in Macao, the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, or IPIM, says.

Preliminary results of late-stage trials in Brazil of CoronaVac, a potential vaccine against the Covid-19 virus developed by Sinovac Biotech Ltd of China, indicate that the vaccine is safe, Reuters reports, citing the Instituto Butantan, a Brazilian biomedical research centre.

Gree Electric Appliances Inc. Chairman Dong Mingzhu has said she wants to work with the Macao authorities to promote sales of the Chinese company’s products in the Portuguese-speaking world, the government of Macao says.

The authorities in Macao and mainland China intend to collaborate in establishing a business exchange to promote sales in the mainland of high-quality goods produced in the Portuguese-speaking world, Ponto Final reports, citing Macao Secretary for the Economy and Finance Lei Wai Nong.

China Communications Construction Co. Ltd (CCCC) has announced that its directors have approved its investment in the consortium that has the contract to build and operate a bridge in northeastern Brazil.

The permanent secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao), known as Forum Macao, will study the possibility of setting up a centre for cooperation and communication in responding to epidemics, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has announced.

The operator of the Metro do Porto, the metropolitan railway in the northern Portuguese city of Oporto, has asked China Railway Rolling Stock Corp. (CRRC) Tangshan Co. Ltd to go ahead with making passenger coaches for its network, CRRC Tangshan says.

The Chinese-funded expansion of the Luachimo hydroelectric power station in the northeastern Angolan province of Lunda Norte should be finished in time to re-start the facility in the first half of next year, Angop reports.

Mozambican Economy and Finance Minister Adriano Maleiane has told a World Bank meeting that he is awaiting an answer from Beijing to a request for a moratorium on repayments of Mozambican debt to China, Lusa reports.

Fifteen Portuguese are taking this week a training programme arranged by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd of China, the ComputerWorld website reports.

Macao enterprises will seek new opportunities for business at the 2020 Portuguese Speaking Countries Products and Services Exhibition (Macao) (PLPEX) from October 22 to 24, and at the simultaneous 25th Macao International Trade & Investment Fair (MIF), the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, or IPIM, says.

Manuela António – Lawyers and Notaries of Macao and Jingsh Law Firm of Beijing have agreed to open a joint branch office on Hengqin Island, which abuts Macao, the Macau News Agency (MNA) reports.