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.

Governor João Serra of the Cabo Verdean central bank has said his bank is considering keeping some of its foreign reserves in the Chinese currency and in gold, Lusa reports.

The University of Macao says officials from Angola and from São Tomé and Príncipe have visited the university with a view to increasing collaboration by universities in China and the Portuguese-speaking world in turning out people bilingual in Chinese and Portuguese.

A member of the Timorese cabinet, Hermenegildo Augusto Cabral Pereira, has said Chinese companies are contributing to the development of Timor-Leste, engaging in cooperative efforts that improve the standard of living of ordinary Timorese, Xinhua reports.

The revenue of the Brazilian tourism industry grew to 136.7 billion reais (about US$32.8 billion) in the first seven months of this year, 1.1 percent more than in the corresponding period last year, Xinhua reports.