Authorities in Cacuaco municipality in northern Angola are keen to have a branch of the China City shopping emporium in the municipality, the Hua Qiao Zai Xian website, or the Angola Office of the Africa Oriental Post, reports.

The Portugal-China Small and Medium Enterprises Chamber of Commerce can help promote international trade with northeastern Brazil and foreign investment there, the head of the chamber, Chow Y Ping, has said.

A research paper by two Brazilians on the initial effort by China to counter the COVID-19 pandemic won the award for the best paper presented at the International Conference on Public Organization 2021, the China Hoje website says.

State-owned China Railway Construction Corp. Ltd (CRCC) has won a contract to build electricity substations in the western Angolan province of Malanje, the Xinhua Silk Road website reports.

Guinea-Bissau has taken delivery of 100,000 doses of the vaccine against COVID-19 devised by Sinopharm Group Co. Ltd. of China, which are a gift from the Chinese government, O Democrata reports.

The Brazilian trade and investment promotion agency, Apex-Brasil, says it is taking applications to attend a conference on trading internationally online.

The Brazilian state-owned oil company, Petrobras, has begun using a Chinese-built floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel in extracting oil and natural gas from the Sépia field in the Santos Basin off southern Brazil, the China News Service (CNS) reports.

China has given São Tomé and Principe a batch of medical supplies for the campaign there against malaria on Friday, STP-Press reports.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged his country and Portugal to cooperate more closely in the fields of energy, finance and infrastructure, and in third countries, Xinhua reports.

The regulator of the health industry in Brazil, Anvisa, says it has given permission for a third-phase clinical trial there of a vaccine against COVID-19 developed by Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. of the United States.

Cabo Verdean Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva has thanked China for its long-term support for the development of his country, and called for closer Sino-Cabo Verdeancooperation, the Chinese Embassy in Praia says.

A former coordinator of the Macao Polytechnic Institute Portuguese Language Pedagogical and Scientific Center, Carlos André, predicts that development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and its links with the Portuguese-speaking world will encourage more Chinese to learn Portuguese, Ponto Final reports.