The main gauge of consumer confidence in Cape Verde rose to its highest level for 3 years in the first quarter of this year, A Semana reports.

AliExpress, owned by Alibaba Group of China, is now among the three e-commerce websites most favoured by Brazilians, the People’s Daily reports.

The University of Macau says it will put on this week an international conference on teaching Portuguese as a foreign language.

Electricity company Energias de Portugal SA (EDP) intends to invest up to 12 million euros (US$14.37 million) in East Africa in the next three years, Xinhua reports.

The Government of Cabo Verde will put out to public tender in July the contract to build a terminal for cruise ships in Mindelo in São Vicente, Inforpress reports.

China’s National People’s Congress Chairman Li Zhanshu will visit Mozambique this month, the China Daily reports.

BMI Research forecasts that the annual rate of inflation in Mozambique will slow to 5.9 percent this year from 15.4 percent last year, Lusa reports.

The Maputo-Catembe Bridge in Mozambique, being built by China Road and Bridge Corp., is scheduled to be inaugurated on June 25, Macao magazine reports.

A private gauge indicates that manufacturing activity in Brazil increased last month for the ninth month in a row, but grew more slowly than before, Reuters reports.

The new Portuguese Ambassador to Beijing, Mr José Augusto Duarte, visited on April 30 the headquarters of the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao). He was joined by the Consul General of Portugal in Macao and Hong Kong, Mr Vítor Sereno.

The value of Cabo Verde exports grew to nearly 1.45 billion escudos (US$15.79 million) in the first quarter of this year, 77.4 percent more than a year earlier, Inforpress reports.

Provisional official data indicate that the unemployment rate in Portugal fell to 7.4 percent in March, the lowest since April 2004, Xinhua reports.