An executive of the sole supplier of natural gas in Mozambique has said that in the next five years his country will import from China about 1,000 buses that run on natural gas, AIM reports.

The prime minister of Timor Leste has toured a Chinese naval training ship, the Qi Jiguang, which began its first-ever port call in Dili on Sunday, Xinhua reports.

Chinese visiting Portugal during the week of Chinese holidays at the beginning of this month used the Chinese Alipay system to make payments 64 times more than they did in the corresponding period last year, the China News Service (CNS) reports, citing figures given by Alipay.

The Angolan subsidiary of China Harbour Engineering Co. Ltd has spent US$150,000 on building a centre for training its Angolan employees in occupational safety, Xinhua reports.

The Monetary Authority of Macau has announced the setting-up of export credit insurance arrangements meant to make trade between China and the Portuguese-speaking world less risky, Lusa reports.

State-run utility Electricidade de Moçambique EP (EDM) has given state-owned China Energy Engineering Corp. (Energy China) and Energy China subsidiary China Energy Engineering International a contract to build electricity transmission lines in central and northern Mozambique, China Energy Engineering International has announced.

Some of the furniture sold in the Cidade da China Chinese emporium in suburban Luanda is made in Angola, Jornal de Angola reports.

A cable for data transmission called EllaLink will be laid under the Atlantic from Sines harbour in Portugal to the city of Fortaleza in Brazil, Xinhua reports.

China Railway 20 Bureau Group Corp. (CR20) has turned over to the Angolan government the Benguela Railway, which CR20 rebuilt for US$1.83 billion, Xinhua reports.

The oil and gas authority in Brazil says the Brazilian arms of two Chinese state-owned enterprises are among 14 companies given permission to bid for the rights to explore for oil off the Brazilian coast that are due to be auctioned on November 6 and 7, Reuters reports.

The Chinese Embassy in Lisbon says over 700 pupils at primary and secondary schools in the northwestern Portuguese city of São João da Madeira are learning Chinese.

Brazilian supplier of meat Minerva SA and two Chinese have agreed to form a joint venture to sell beef in China, Reuters reports.