16 July 2021
A party of 10 staff and students of the University of Macau Department of Portuguese have given over 100 school pupils in southwestern China three weeks of instruction in the language, the university says. The Macao Education and Youth Development Bureau commissioned the party to teach three-week courses at a primary school, a secondary school … Continue reading "University of Macau teaches Portuguese in southwestern China"
16 July 2021
The Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) Centre for Portuguese Studies has made accessible online textbooks for teaching the Portuguese language, along with other academic resources, the MPI says. The institute announced in writing yesterday that of the 30 or more items available, most can be downloaded free of charge. Among the resources are Orientes do Português, … Continue reading "Books for teaching Portuguese put up online by Macao poly"
15 July 2021
The 12th International Infrastructure Investment and Construction Forum (hereinafter referred to as the “12th IIICF”) will be held in Macao from 22 to 23 July. After eleven years of development, IIICF has become the most influential annual event in the field of international infrastructure co-operation. Some mainland enterprises officially signed projects with Portuguese-speaking countries through IIICF, believing … Continue reading "IIICF Helps Mainland Enterprises Expand Business by Leveraging Macao’s Strengths as the Platform between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries"
14 July 2021
Macao, Portuguese and lusophone African architects have volunteered their services to help improve shanty towns in Brasília, Lusa reports, citing International Council of Portuguese Language Architects President Rui Leão. The Portuguese news agency quotes Mr Leão, a Macao architect, as saying the volunteers will work with the inhabitants of 10 big shantytowns there. He said … Continue reading "Lusophone architects to help improve Brazilian shanty towns"
14 July 2021
Deputy Secretary-General of the Permanent Secretariat of Forum Macao Mr Paulo Jorge Rodrigues do Espírito Santo – together with the Representatives of the Portuguese-speaking Countries at the Permanent Secretariat of Forum Macao, and their respective families – visited on July 12 a photography exhibition in Macao celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist … Continue reading "Permanent Secretariat of Forum Macao visits ‘100 Years of the Communist Party of China’ photo exhibition"
14 July 2021
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the Tourist Price Index (TPI) for the second quarter of 2021 dropped by 3.91% year-on-year to 116.93. The decrease was mainly attributable to lower hotel room rates and falling airfares; yet, it was partially offset by rising charges for restaurant services and dearer prices of … Continue reading "Macao tourist price index (TPI) for the 2nd quarter of 2021"
14 July 2021
The Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) says it is inviting the submission of academic papers for presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Encounter with the Human Sciences & The 4th LinCog – International Symposium on Language and Cognition. The institute announced in writing yesterday that it is holding the online gathering jointly with the University of … Continue reading "Macao poly calls for papers for international academic event"
13 July 2021
The Brazil-China Sociocultural Institute, or Ibrachina, and the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, or IPIM, will work together to attract Chinese investment to Brazil after the COVID-19 pandemic is over, Ibrachina says. Representatives of the institutions held a videoconference last week with a view to increasing international cooperation, according to a written statement issued … Continue reading "Brazil wants Macao help to attract investment from China"
13 July 2021
The 9th Macao International Travel (Industry) Expo (referred to as the “Expo” or “MITE”) culminated in success on Sunday (11 July). Held from 9 – 11 July, the three-day Expo admitted close to 24,000 spectators and facilitated signing of 39 contracts. A total of 4,974 business-to-business meetings were conducted while the cumulative view counts hit 7.81 … Continue reading "9th Macao International Travel (Industry) Expo culminated in success"
13 July 2021
The University of Macau Centre for Chinese History and Culture and the University of Macau Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre have jointly edited and published this year a series of comic books, each in Chinese, English and Portuguese, retelling Chinese traditional myths, legends and stories from history, the university says. The titles in the … Continue reading "University of Macau publishes comic books in three languages"
12 July 2021
The Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao) and Macao Government Tourism Office jointly held on July 9 the “Promotion Seminar of Tourism Products from Portuguese-speaking Countries”. The event took place at 2pm in Cotai Expo’s Sicily Ballroom, at the Venetian Macao resort. The seminar aimed … Continue reading "Permanent Secretariat of Forum Macao and Macao Government Tourism Office jointly host ‘Promotion Seminar of Tourism Products for Portuguese-speaking Countries’"
12 July 2021
The 2021 Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum & Exhibition (2021MIECF) is scheduled to take place from 5 to 7 August 2021. Every year, the MIECF invites prominent figures in the international environmental sector to serve as keynote speakers. The 2021MIECF has invited Ms. Dong Mingzhu, Chairperson and President of Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai … Continue reading "Ms. Dong Mingzhu to Share Green Business Opportunities Brought by “Dual Carbon” Goals as Keynote Speaker at 2021MIECF"
12 July 2021
AS King Medical Products Ltd of Macao has been supplying masks to Portuguese-speaking parts of the world to protect their people against the COVID-19 pandemic, the Macao Daily News reports. AS King spent over US$1 million on building and equipping a factory in Macao to supply surgical masks to the city, to lusophone countries and … Continue reading "Macao-made masks help curb COVID-19 in lusophone countries"
9 July 2021
The 12th International Infrastructure Investment and Construction Forum (hereinafter referred to as the “12th IIICF”), jointly organised by the China International Contractors Association (CHINCA) and the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), will be held in Macao from 22 to 23 July mainly in offline mode supplemented by online activities. Leading political, business, and academic figures … Continue reading "Join Hands for New Development of International Infrastructure Co-operation The 12th IIICF to Be Held in July"
9 July 2021
The latest situation of COVID-19 epidemic in adjoining regions has affected the exhibitors’ and trade visitors’ arrangement of travelling from Mainland China to Macao for joining the 2021 Guangdong & Macao Branded Products Fair (GMBPF), which is hosted by the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) and the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province. … Continue reading "2021 Guangdong & Macao Branded Products Fair (GMBPF) is postponed to 3 to 5 September"
9 July 2021
The China-Portuguese-speaking Countries Co-operation and Development Fund in Macao has put on a training course for 75 people working in the financial industry in the city, the Monetary Authority of Macao says. Part of the course was taught online and part required physical attendance, according to a written statement issued by the authority on Tuesday. … Continue reading "Macao financial industry workers attend training course"
9 July 2021
A Macao law firm, MdME Lawyers, says Sino-Portuguese business relations and their investment aspect will be discussed at a seminar the firm is jointly arranging with the Portugal-China Chamber of Commerce and Industry. MdME Lawyers says in a LinkedIn post that the seminar will be held next Wednesday at the Portuguese consulate-general in Macao. The … Continue reading "Seminar to mull COVID-19 effects on Sino-Portuguese business"
8 July 2021
The 12th International Infrastructure Investment and Construction Forum (IIICF) will take place in Macao on July 22 and 23, the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, or IPIM, says. On the programme for the conference is the 7th China-Latin American Countries Infrastructure Forum, sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, which will cover Brazil, IPIM … Continue reading "Building infrastructure in Brazil on Macao conference agenda"
8 July 2021
Well Link Bank Chief Executive Chong Sio Fai says the Macao bank is aiming to forge business links between the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Portuguese-speaking world, Macau Business reports. The July issue of the magazine quotes Mr Chong as saying in an interview that Well Link Group Holdings Ltd is actively looking … Continue reading "Well Link Bank reveals business ambitions in lusophone world"
7 July 2021
On July 6, a delegation led by the Commissioner of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China in the Macao SAR, Mr Liu Xianfa, paid a courtesy visit to the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao). The visiting delegation … Continue reading "Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China in the Macao SAR, Liu Xianfa, visited the Permanent Secretariat of Forum Macao"
