Food market monitor Conab forecasts that Brazilian grain output will fall to 229.7 million tonnes in the 2017-2018 season from 237.7 million tonnes last season, Xinhua reports.

The Portugal-China Young Entrepreneurs Association is putting on a three-day international business fair in the northern Portuguese city of Matosinhos, which will open tomorrow, Dinheiro Vivo reports.

Chinese-owned Guangde Internacional Group Ltd has formally opened a furniture emporium called GUDE in Luanda, Jornal de Chinês reports.

The Chinese Embassy in Guinea Bissau says Ambassador Jin Hongjun and ministers of his host country have met to discuss co-operation in public health and defence.

The Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) has announced that Macao and the Shanghai Diamond Exchange have agreed to make Macao a place where China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries can trade diamonds, Lusa reports.

The average forecast of Brazilian economic growth this year given by economists polled each week by the Brazilian central bank is now 1.94 percent, Xinhua reports.

Trade in merchandise between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries reached US$30.188 billion in the period from January to March 2018. It represented a 25.91 percent increase year-on-year, according to data from China Customs.

Chinese National Bureau of Statistics data indicate that the annual rate of consumer price inflation in China was 1.8 percent last month, the same as the month before, Xinhua reports.

Official data indicate that Brazil exported 9.76 million tonnes of soybean to China last month, the most in any month yet, AgriCensus reports.

Chinese Ambassador to Portugal Cai Run has said 13 percent more Portuguese visited China in the first quarter of this year than a year earlier, the Hangzhou Daily reports.

The participants in a seminar on trade and economic cooperation targeting representatives from the member states of Forum Macao, visited Macao from June 6 to 10. The seminar was organised by the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China and its Academy for International Business Officials (AIBO).

The Secretary for International Affairs of Brazil’s Ministry of Planning, Development and Management, Mr Jorge Arbache, visited on June 8 the office of the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao), also known as Forum Macao. Brazil’s Representative in Forum Macao, Mr Rafael Rodrigues Paulino, accompanied Mr Arbache.