IDC, a gatherer of market intelligence, says that among makers of smartphones sold in Portugal in the second quarter of this year, sales of phones made by Xiaomi Corp. of China were the fastest-growing, ECO reports.

Moody’s Investors Service has raised the outlook for its sovereign debt rating for Portugal to positive from stable because the burden of debt the government bears keeps getting lighter and because the banking business keeps improving, Bloomberg reports.

Chinese medical missions to Timor Leste have attended to over 300,000 patients there since the first such mission, sent in 2004, the People’s Daily reports.

Official data indicate that China imported 91.02 million tonnes of iron ore last month, most in any month since January, as Australian and Brazilian miners pumped up their exports, Reuters reports.

Official data indicate that the monthly rate of consumer price inflation in Brazil was 0.19 percent last month, the slowest for five years, Xinhua reports.

Angolan Minister of Mineral Resources and Petroleum Diamantino de Azevedo has said his government will take a roadshow to Beijing to tout what will be put up for sale at the next auction of Angolan mining licences, Lusa reports.

Of the orders for goods from other countries that consumers in Portugal made online last year, 45 percent were for goods from China, Dinheiro Vivo reports.

The operator of the Guangdong-Macao Traditional Chinese Medicine Technology Industrial Park says it put on last month its first course in Cabo Verde for the training of practitioners of Chinese traditional medicine.

China State Construction Engineering Corp. Ltd says a subsidiary has begun building a hospital in the Mozambican coastal city of Beira.

The Chinese authorities are considering giving 19 cattle slaughterhouses, nine poultry processing facilities, one swine slaughterhouse and one donkey slaughterhouse in Brazil permission to export their output to China, Reuters reports, citing the Brazilian Association of Meat Exporting Industries and the Brazilian Association of Animal Protein.

Cabo Verdean Minister of Transport José Gonçalves has said a new ferry line which will link all the islands of Cabo Verde will begin operating on August 15, A Semana reports.

A subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) will take a stake of 55.6 percent in the holder of licences to drill for oil in the Sinapa and Esperança areas off the coast of Guiné-Bissau, Reuters reports.