24 September 2021
The “Macao Week in Sichuan•Chengdu” will be unveiled today to promote Macao’s diverse dimensions of “tourism +” and raise the city’s profile as a safe and quality destination in Chengdu. Among the highlights, the series of gastronomic promotions entitled “A Delicious Inheritance of Sichuan, Cantonese and Macanese Gastronomy” was unveiled with a kick-off ceremony today … Continue reading "“Macao Week in Sichuan•Chengdu” lifts curtain upon gastronomic promotion “A Delicious Inheritance of Sichuan, Cantonese and Macanese Gastronomy” unfolds"
24 September 2021
To foster Chengdu-Macao closer co-operation in trade in products and services, and enhance Macao’s role as a platform between China and Portuguese-speaking countries (PSC), the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) has introduced even more new elements and measures in the “Macao Week in Sichuan•Chengdu”. Nearly one third of roadshow exhibitors are Macao enterprises … Continue reading "IPIM Fosters Chengdu-Macao Closer Co-operation in Trade in Products and Services via the Macao Week"
24 September 2021
The University of Macau (UM) recently held virtually the 30th annual meeting of the Association of Portuguese Speaking Universities (Associação das Universidades de Língua Portuguesa, AULP). Titled ‘Dialogue of Cultures and Promotion of Portuguese Language Teaching in China’, the meeting attracted participants from Macao and eight countries. They included members of the Executive Council of AULP … Continue reading "UM holds annual meeting of AULP virtually"
23 September 2021
Brazilian Association in China for Industry, Commerce and Innovation President Henry Osvald believes the Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone on Hengqin Island, which abuts Macao, may attract bright minds from Brazilian universities, the NewsGD website reports. The Chinese website quotes Mr Osvald as saying Brazilians could join Macao and mainland Chinese entrepreneurs and academics in developing … Continue reading "Brazilian business leader sees potential of Hengqin Island"
23 September 2021
The mega roadshow “Macao Week in Sichuan•Chengdu” will be held at Jiaozi Plaza, Hi-tech Industrial Development Zone in Chengdu from 23 – 27 September, with a grand opening ceremony this Friday (24 September). A variety of promotions are successively unfolding in Chengdu to create lively ambience for the event and promote Macao as a safe … Continue reading "“Macao Week in Sichuan•Chengdu” will be unveiled this Friday Extensive promotions are unfolding"
23 September 2021
The inauguration ceremony for the “Destruction of Humanity” exhibition, featuring work by Guinea-Bissau artist Ismael Hipólito Djata, was held at the China-Portuguese-speaking Countries Commercial and Trade Service Platform Complex on Tuesday (September 21), at 6.30pm. The event was organised by the Permanent Secretariat of Forum Macao, under the “Lusophone Polychromes” exhibition series, part of the … Continue reading "Opening of exhibition by Guinea-Bissau artist Ismael Hipólito Djata as part of the ‘Lusophone Polychromes’ exhibition series"
23 September 2021
The Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, or IPIM, says its Invest Here website, intended to boost flows of investment between China and the Portuguese-speaking world, is now online, after a four-month trial. The Invest Here website gives information about Macao, the nine mainland Chinese cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and major … Continue reading "Macao website to spur international flows of investment"
21 September 2021
As a new event organized by Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), the “Light up Macao Drone Gala” will be staged at Nam Van Lake from 1 – 23 October. There will be ten sessions of drone shows at 19:30 and 21:30 per night on 1, 3, 9, 16 and 23 October. With one show staged … Continue reading "Light up Macao Drone Gala will debut on National Day"
20 September 2021
The Chief Executive, Mr Ho Iat Seng, visits Hengqin to attend today’s ceremony to unveil a plaque marking the advent of the administrative body for the Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone in Hengqin. The Chief Executive is leading a 100-strong delegation for the ceremony in Hengqin. Members of the delegation include: President of the Legislative Assembly … Continue reading "Macao CE visits Hengqin for plaque-unveiling ceremony for Intensive Cooperation Zone"
20 September 2021
In order to stimulate the local investment environment, give full play to the unique advantage of Macao as a platform between China and Portuguese-speaking countries, and attract domestic and overseas enterprises to implement their business projects in Macao, the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) has launched web and mobile versions of “Invest Here” … Continue reading "IPIM Launches the “Invest Here” Website to Provide Investment Information on a Number of Cities"
20 September 2021
The Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) says it has introduced an improved version its application for mobile phones that serves an educational purpose by relaying news in two languages. The institute announced in writing that the new version carries 20 categories of news, more than the original version. The app relays items of news in Chinese … Continue reading "Macao poly launches new version of dual-language news app"
17 September 2021
As the pandemic situation remains stable overall in the Mainland and Macao, the Macao Special Administrative Region Government has progressively unrolled an array of initiatives to promote the destination including a series of “Macao Weeks” mega roadshows and related activities under strict compliance with pandemic prevention measures. As the latest of the series, the “Macao … Continue reading "“Macao Week in Sichuan•Chengdu” will be staged in late September to attract visitors in Mid-Autumn and welcome National Day"
17 September 2021
Organized by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from its Portuguese acronym), the special edition of Macao International Music Festival, themed “Music October”, will be held in October this year, connecting and communicating with the world through music. Due to the fact that many parts of the world are still affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic, … Continue reading "Macao International Music Festival takes “Music October” as theme Diverse ticketing channels available on the first day of ticket sales"
16 September 2021
Universities in Macao and mainland China have agreed to make arrangements for sharing resources for teaching the Portuguese language, the University of Macau says. Representatives of the universities concerned signed on Monday an agreement to arrange ways to pass borrowed books and other documents from one institution to another, and to catalogue jointly their materials … Continue reading "Universities to share resources for teaching Portuguese"
16 September 2021
The Portuguese Language Communication Association in Macao begins today soliciting entries for a new contest among schoolchildren to write fiction in Portuguese and then illustrate it, inviting pupils at nine schools in the lusophone world to compete. The contest is open to school pupils aged between 10 and 12 in Angola, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, … Continue reading "Lusophone school pupils invited to enter Macao story contest"
15 September 2021
The Chinese Ministry of Education has given the University of Saint Joseph in Macao permission to accept students from mainland China, the Macau News Agency (MNA) reports. MNA says University of Saint Joseph Rector Stephen Morgan announced in writing on Friday that the Catholic university has permission to begin enrolling mainland Chinese postgraduates on a … Continue reading "Mainland Chinese may now study at University of Saint Joseph"
14 September 2021
Earlier, the University of Macau (UM) initiated the establishment of two academic library alliances, namely the Academic Library Alliance between Macao Special Administrative Region and Portuguese-speaking Countries, and the Academic Library Alliance for Portuguese Language Resources between Macao Special Administrative Region and Mainland China. Today (13 September), UM and other members of the latter alliance … Continue reading "UM establishes library alliances with universities in Portuguese-speaking countries and mainland China"
14 September 2021
Macao businesswoman Melinda Chan Mei Yi has called for multi-currency venture capital funds, private equity investment funds and the like to be set up to attract foreign investment in the Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone on Hengqin Island, which abuts Macao, the Macao Daily News reports. The newspaper quotes Ms Chan, a member of the Chinese … Continue reading "Funds advocated to draw lusophone investors to Hengqin"
13 September 2021
Prospective students of translation of the Portuguese legal language as used by lawyers have until September 30 to apply for places on an intensive course on the subject to be given the University of Macau Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Center and the Portuguese Institute of the Orient, or IPOR, the university says. Up to … Continue reading "Macao offers course on translation of Portuguese legalese"
10 September 2021
The Chief Executive, Mr Ho Iat Seng, today said the opening of the Qingmao Checkpoint would further advance infrastructure connectivity and heighten efficiency regarding movement of people around the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The new checkpoint – the fifth land-based crossing point between Macao and Zhuhai in Guangdong Province – carried great significance for … Continue reading "CE: Macao Qingmao Checkpoint key for promotion of innovation in regional cooperation under “One country, two systems”"
