One official says the aim of the new tax guides to Portugal, Mozambique and Cabo Verde is to assist ‘companies in the process of going global’.
Forum Macau
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng promises ongoing support for the organisation, set up to boost trade and investment between China and the lusophone countries.
Ambassador Paulo Jorge Espírito Santo – from São Tomé and Princípe – became the new Forum Macao deputy secretary-general today, replacing Rodrigo Brum who ended his three year term.
The program and schedule for the 11th Cultural Week of China and Portuguese-speaking Countries will kick off on October 12 at the Macau Fisherman’s Wharf.
The sixth ministerial meeting of Forum Macau, which had been scheduled for 2019, will be delayed until 2020, according to diplomatic sources linked to the institution.
China has strengthened its economic and trade co-operation with Portuguese-Speaking Countries (PSCs) in the past 15 years, and has been dedicated to enhancing its co-operation with those countries in more sectors, senior officials attending a symposium said in Macau Wednesday.
Our shift in allegiance is a matter of political domain: twenty years ago, the reality was very different. Today, the world is different, the options are different.
The Atlantic two-island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe has formally joined the Forum for Trade and Economic Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries.