Mozambique produced a total of 100,000 tonnes of cashew in the 2015-16 harvesting season: a new record, said Ilídio Bande, National Director of the country’s National Institute of Cashew Production (Incaju).

China’s Ambassador to East Timor, Liu Hongyang, met with a leader of a political party in the archipelago last week to deepen the political trust between the two sides, the Embassy said in a statement.

China’s Shaanxi province wants to expand its investment in Mozambique, especially in relation to infrastructure, special economic zones, textiles and agriculture, said two representatives from Shaanxi, quoted by Mozambican newspaper Notícias.

The consumer price index of Cape Verde declined by 1 percent year-on-year in May, led by a decrease in transport and fuel prices, said last week the National Institute of Statistics.

China’s outbound direct investment (ODI) will exceed the inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) this year, said on Friday Shen Danyang, spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.

More than 100,000 Chinese nationals are expected to visit Brazil for the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games held in Rio de Janeiro this summer, said the organisers in a statement, citing estimates from the World Tourism Organization.

A further 134 items that originate from Macao and are destined for export to Mainland China will be exempted from tariffs starting on July 1, the Macao Economic Services said in a statement on Friday.

The progress of economic and trade co-operation between China and Angola was reviewed in a meeting between the two parties in Beijing, on Wednesday, Angolan news agency Angop reported.

China is willing to increase trade and economic co-operation with Portugal in a bid to raise the strategic partnership between the two nations to a new and higher level, said a senior official of the Communist Party of China.

China’s Ambassador to Mozambique, Su Jian, held talks recently in the African nation’s capital, Maputo, regarding support for the industrialisation of that country.

The Prime Minister of East Timor, Rui Maria de Araújo, said the country is implementing the necessary reforms to diversify its economy, in a bid to reduce its dependency on trade partners, and on exports of oil and gas. Mr Araújo made a speech on Wednesday at the European Development Days forum, taking place in Brussels.

Organisations from Brazil attended the International Food, Meat and Aquatic Products Exhibition (FMA) in China this week, aiming to increase Brazilian exports of poultry and pork meat to the Asian nation.