Briefs | Parents queue for summer activity application

Local parents have scrambled to enroll their kids into the government’s summer activities yesterday at the Tap Seac Multisport Pavilion as the application deadline approached. The final day of registration was for participants who had not been selected yet were still eligible for the courses that were still available. Those parents who braved the torrential rain needed to spend almost two hours in queues, yet most of them were told that the courses taught in the Macau peninsula were already full.  This forced them to change their minds and opt for courses in Taipa. The selected participants already made their applications over the past three days at the same venue.

Flights to Xi’an could be resumed

The tourism bureau of Shaanxi province is aiming to re-launch direct flights between Xi’an and Macau. Last year, Xi’an received more than 200,000 visitors from Macau and Hong Kong, while some 40,000 Xi’an citizens visited the SARs. Dong Hanqing, a bureau official in charge of SAR-related tourism affairs said that the two cities once established a direct airline route around the time of Macau’s handover and that now is the ideal time to reinstate the route so as to improve exchanges in personnel as well as in trade, culture and tourism between Shaanxi and Macau.