The Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency says representatives of 12 Chinese companies in the car and furniture upholstery business will complete today a two-visit to the Brazilian city of Novo Hamburgo.

Over 300 people in the world of sport attended the 2018 Sport Sciences Seminar China-Portugal, which was held in Macao at the weekend, the Shimin Daily reports.

Representatives of the Chinese and Mozambican governments have signed agreements to co-operate on four projects in Mozambique together worth US$100 million, Xinhua reports.

A delegation 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, visited on June 4 the headquarters of the General Administration of Customs of China in Beijing,

The Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries, also known as Forum Macao, held on June 4 in Beijing, the seminar “15th anniversary of the Establishment of Forum Macao: Review and Future Development”. A ceremony was also held to launch the drafting of the conclusions of an external assessment.

The International Monetary Fund says the economy of Guinea Bissau is on course to expand by 5.3 percent next year – a slower rate of growth than the 5.9 percent it expects this year.

Banco Sol Chairman Coutinho Nobre Miguel has said the Angolan bank is opening a representative office in Macao to facilitate the development of Angolan companies, Jornal de Angola reports.

Chinese state-owned electricity company China Three Gorges Corp. has made a formal bid worth €9.07 billion (US$10.83 billion) to take control of Portuguese utility Energias de Portugal SA (EDP), Lusa reports.

Baltic and International Maritime Council Chief Shipping Analyst Peter Sand says he expects all the very large dry bulk carriers due to be delivered in the next two years to be chartered to carry iron ore from Brazil to China.

Chinese enterprises investing in Brazil have reaffirmed their commitment to the country in the long term, Xinhua reports.

Angolan exporters sold almost 954 billion kwanzas (US$4 billion) worth of goods to China in the fourth quarter of last year, 30.1 percent more than in the third quarter, Lusa reports.

The Vice-Minister of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services of Brazil, Mr Douglas Finardi Ferreira, visited on June 1 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. The second Vice-Minister, Ms Renata Carvalho, and Brazil’s Representative at Forum Macao, Mr Rafael Rodrigues Paulino, accompanied Mr Santos Tarragô.