Portuguese media company NOS SGPS SA has added the China Theater Channel to its cable television service, O Jornal Económico reports.

Chinese Ambassador to Portugal Cai Run has said the Sino-Portuguese relationship is better than ever before, in view of the frequency of visits to each other’s country by senior political figures in China and Portugal, and the strength of their trust in each other.

Chinese conglomerate HNA Group Co. Ltd has increased to 20 percent from 12 percent its holding in Atlantic Gateway, which owns 45 percent of Portuguese airline TAP, so giving HNA an indirectly held stake in the airline of 9 percent, Público reports.

Italian oil company ENI expects to begin exporting natural gas from its Rovuma Bay field off Mozambique on schedule in the second half of 2022, Lusa reports.

China has given the Mozambican Interior Ministry US$2.5 million worth of supplies for the African country’s police forces, O País reports.

China will exempt 14 exporters of Brazilian chicken, including major producers BRF and JBS Group, from anti-dumping tariffs – provided they sell chicken in China at an undisclosed minimum price, Reuters reports.

Preliminary official data indicate that the annual rate of growth in Portuguese gross domestic product slowed to 2.1 percent last year from 2.8 percent the year before but still faster than 2016’s 1.2 percent hike, Xinhua reports.

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) forecasts that Angolan gross domestic product will expand by 1.9 percent this year, having contracted by an estimated 0.7 percent last year, Macauhub reports.

Chinese maker of electric vehicles BYD Co. Ltd has been awarded a contract to build a 20 km monorail along a viaduct that will carry it above the sea in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, Xinhua reports.

Luz Saúde, a Portuguese healthcare subsidiary of Fosun International Ltd of China, will set up a call centre in the city of Vila Real in northern Portugal to serve patients all over the country, Lusa reports.

The Monetary Authority of Macao has announced that the Macau Association of Banks, the Financial Society of Guangdong and the Banking Association of Guangdong have struck agreements meant to harness the Guangdong financial system to efforts to turn Macao into a renminbi clearing centre for trade between China and the Portuguese-speaking world.

The Chinese Embassy in Luanda has announced that two Chinese-financed schools for refugees in the northern Angolan province of Lunda Norte have opened.