Brazil, Angola and Portugal are the Portuguese-speaking countries most quoted in the Chinese index for the construction of infrastructure worldwide, according to a report released at the International Forum on Investment and Construction of Infrastructure.

REN – Redes Energeticas Nacionais, SGPS S.A., whose main shareholder is China State Grid, has won an award from the European Commission for its electric charging solution.

The Government of São Tomé e Príncipe delivered 60 apartments built by China to future buyers, ensuring the completion of the process “smoothly” and “without complaints”.

Doubts are growing about David Chow´s casino complex being completed in Cabo Verde, according to the local press, while the Macao magnate´s group faces financial stress back home.

Luís Manuel Brás Bernardino* Popular Republic of China is, by many specialists, recognized as a global actor in the framework of International Relations. As a result of a foreign policy denominated by ‘Going Out Strategy’, launched officially in 2001, China has emerged recently to this reality. More specifically since 2013, after the presentation of its new global connectivity strategy designated by ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, rising not only as an important economic, political and diplomatic player, but also of security, namely in Africa, where its presence is undeniable.

Carmen Amado Mendes* The China-Lusophone Brief will publish a series of articles this week, as the result of collaboration with the Macau Scientific and Cultural Centre (also known as CCCM).

Angola has ammended the Industrial Tax Code, with changes entering into force on 1 January 2023, according to official legal database Legis-PALOP+TL.

Australia's Syrah Resources is seeing strong demand for the graphite it mines in Mozambique, thanks in part to China's COVID-19 lockdowns which are impacting production there.

Workers at the Angolan hydroelectric project of Caculo Cabaça and the management of the Chinese contractor China Gezhouba Group Company (CGCG) signed a collective agreement to improve working conditions.

Angola has seized a stake in the nation’s biggest diamond miner, from LLI International, a unit of China Sonangol, that was previously a well-connected Chinese investor in the country.