Regular direct flights will start between Luanda and Changsha, capital of the southern Chinese province of Hunan, this year, according to the Hunan Daily, which is run by the Communist Party of China Hunan Provincial Committee.

The Cabo Verdean authorities mean to use at least two Chinese-developed vaccines against COVID-19 that the World Health Organization has approved, Lusa reports, citing a Cabo Verdean health official, Jorge Barreto.

The authorities in the southern Chinese province of Hainan look forward to cooperating more closely with their counterparts in Macao to increase mutual engagement by the island province and the Portuguese-speaking world, the Macao SAR Government says, citing Communist Party of China Hainan Provincial Committee Secretary Shen Xiaoming.

The Brazilian Health Ministry has began distributing around Brazil over 2.3 million kits made in the city of Lianyungang, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, which will be used to intubate COVID-19 patients, Agência Brasil reports.

Fitch Ratings says it has raised its long-term issuer default rating and senior unsecured rating for West China Cement Ltd (WCC) to BB from BB- with a “positive” outlook.

A law firm in Macao – Rato, Ling, Lei & Cortés, known as Lektou – has opened an office in the nearby mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen, the Macau News Agency (MNA) says, citing the firm.

An Angolan railway, Caminho de Ferro de Moçâmedes, has carried its first trainload of ore since being rebuilt, Angop reports.

The Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) Centre for Portuguese Studies will hold online tomorrow a meeting to discuss academic cooperation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area by China and the Portuguese-speaking world, specifically in the teaching of the Portuguese language.

Among the kinds of exhibitor the 2021 Guangdong & Macao Branded Products Fair is meant to attract are Macao dealers in branded goods made in lusophone countries, the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, or IPIM, says.

China has given the main hospital in São Tomé and Príncipe, the Ayres Menezes Hospital, medicines and medical paraphernalia worth 72,000 euros (about US$86,300), the Téla Nón website says.

Sino-Mozambican agreements to cooperate in the field of marine science and technology are boosting the development of the Mozambican maritime economy, Xinhua reports, citing China Oceanic Development Foundation Vice-chairman and Secretary-General Pan Xinchun.

Macao students attending a gathering held to inform them about economic engagement by China and the Portuguese-speaking world were urged to take career opportunities offered by such engagement, the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) says.