Corporate Bits | MGM announces le French gourmay menu

MGM Macau will launch a 3-course Le French GourMay menu at Aux Beaux Arts in May, crafted to bring out authentic French provincial flavor. Under the renowned annual Le French May program, Le French GourMay lines up chefs and wines to showcase France’s culinary art.
The annual event honors a different gastronomic and wine region of France each year for discerning gourmands. According to a press release, this year’s program features Région Alsace, located in Northeast France near both Germany and Switzerland; bringing in a wide range of dishes with characteristics of the three cultures.
The menu promises to bring Alsatian favorites including Foie Gras, Choucroute Sour Cabbage, Baeckeoffe Casserole and Munster Cheese. Other dishes include “Baeckeoffe of duck legs and lemon confit, braised baby vegetables, as well as Munster cheese ravioli with caraway seed, French bacon, Kronenbourg beer emulsion and purslane.”

ctm to maintain normal services

CTM Network Management Center detected an abnormality in part of the SMW3 submarine cable in the South China Sea, around Hong Kong yesterday. The telecom company contacted the Administrative Committee and dealt with a request to adjust the configuration of the network resources to maintain the cable’s stability.
CTM said in a press release that it has prepared for restoration works by undertaking a series of contingency measures to ensure the stability of its service. These include increasing bandwidth resources and rerouting traffic via other systems. CTM will monitor the system round the clock.
At 39,000 km, the SEA-ME-
WE3 submarine cable system is the world’s longest. It covers four continents, making it one of the world’s major international communications cables.

amazon launches new kindle

Amazon’s latest Kindle is its smallest and lightest yet. But it’s also the most expensive, at USD290 — almost a hundred bucks more than the current champ, the $200 Kindle Voyage. Now the company is betting that its sleek frame and a cover that doubles as a rechargeable battery will attract dedicated e-book users to its eighth generation device, called the Kindle Oasis.
Amazon says the new Kindle is 30 percent thinner and 20 percent lighter than previous Kindles. It’s also asymmetrical, with a grip on one side for one-handed reading. (Lefties can just flip the device over.)
The company’s goal? “To make the device disappear,” said Neal Lindsay, vice president of Amazon Devices, so that people can read without distraction.
The e-reader landscape has experienced a few plot twists since Amazon introduced the first Kindle in 2007. Sales surged for a few years, but started leveling off around 2012 as e-readers grew more commonplace. They even dipped slightly in 2013 but then rose 3.8 percent to $3.37 billion dollars in 2014, according to the most recent stats available from the Association of American Publishers.