The Rio Doce Mozambique company, a Brazilian counterpart branch submits today to the Ministry of Mineral Resources a report of a technical and economic feasibility study of Moatize coal project.

The Centre for the Development (OCDE) launches today the edition 2005/2006 of African Economic Outlook publicizing – Economic Perspectives in Africa, a document reporting study and analysis carried out in relation to economic situation of 31 countries among them Mozambique.

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Please find attached an invitation letter to an Executive Seminar entitled "Sourcing from China: The Challenges and the Opportunities".

The new Chairman of "Statistes Sweden", statistics production entity from Sweden, Kjell Jansson, arrives today in Mozambique for a two day visit under the traditional friendship relations and technical cooperation between the National Institute of Statistics in Mozambique and SCB.

Mozambique is at last taking over control of Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam from Portugal 31 years after independence.

The Governments of Mozambique and Portugal sign tomorrow in Maputo City the final agreement for Cahora Bassa Hydro-electric to be reverted to the Mozambican Estate, event to be oriented by the Republic President Armando Guebuza and by the Portuguese Prime Minister, José Sócrates.

The Minister of Science and Technology, Venâncio Massingue, referred yesterday in Maputo that it is necessary to change the national scientific agenda and the way that the management of scientific research and innovation have been carried out in order that the research results be even more associated to the increase of productivity.

South African heads of State and Government yesterday held an extraordinary summit in Midrand, South Africa, to access ongoing preparations for regional integration envisaging, among other things, the establishment of a free trade market and a customs union.

Maputo city holds a IV Technical Telecommunication Meeting of Portuguese Speaking Countries Community (CPLP) from tomorrow.

The Finnish multinational Nokia could settle in Mozambique soon, according to the company’s vice president for markets and operations for Africa and the Middle East, Timo Toikkanen.