China suspends direct flights from Portugal after 10 passengers test positive for Covid virus
Flights suspended for period of one month Chinese authorities have today announced a one-month suspension of direct flights between Portugal and China after 10 passengers tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on
Brexit helps tilt Portugal towards China
Chinese journalist says: “Beijing needs all friends it can get within EU in the face of professed Western unity” One of the consequences of Brexit has been to disrupt Britain’s
Portugal wants more cooperation with China, says PM
Stresses “the door country opens on large markets like EU, Latin America and Africa” Portugal wants more cooperation with China – and vice versa. This was the message coming today
PJ cracks down on Chinese extortion and drug trafficking racket
PJ police in Porto have detained six Chinese nationals “who terrorised shop keepers of the same nationality, demanding payments which reached €5,000 per month”, reports Correio da Manhã this morning.
Judges put paid to Chinese businessman’s wheeler-dealing from behind bars
A Chinese businessman who ordered a killer arson attack on one of his properties has failed in an attempt to see his 25-year jail sentence reduced – and seen judges
China wants airline passengers from Portugal to quarantine three WEEKS before they fly…
China has moved the goalposts surprisingly in terms of pandemic travel restrictions. It wants anyone travelling from Portugal to quarantine for three weeks (or 21 days) before they step onto
China seeks Portugal’s backing in opposing politicising of Covid-19 probe
China is reported to be ‘seeking Portugal’s support’ in opposing what it sees as the ‘politicising’ of the search for the new coronavirus’ origins. As a number of countries –
Pro-Tibet support group leader believes Lisbon passed her personal details to Chinese embassy
The ongoing fall-out over revelations that the municipality of Lisbon furnished the Russian embassy with names, addresses and telephone numbers of activists supporting jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a
Portuguese at receiving end of Chinese measures to contain Covid-19
Although China publicly declared victory over Covid-19 in March 2019, outbreaks of the virus have been popping up ever since – taking one Portuguese national ‘completely by surprise’. Alexandre Castro,
China suspends direct flights from Portugal after infected passengers detected onboard
Chinese authorities have announced a two-week suspension of directs flight between Portugal and Xi’an after apparently detecting seven cases of SARS-CoV-2 on an incoming flight from Lisbon on May 14.