Yao Jingming to head UM Department of Portuguese

Chinese scholar Yao Jingming will head  University of Macau’s (UM) Department of Portuguese. The scholar, poet and translator will replace Fernanda Gil Costa from September 1. Yao, who currently serves in the role of UM’s translation master’s coordinator, will head the Department of Portuguese for the second time. He was temporarily in this role to replace the Australian Alan Baxter between 2011 and 2012 academic year, before the arrival of Fernanda Gil Costa. After Baxter, Yao will be the second non-native Portuguese speaker in this role. Yao has been living in the territory for about 20 years. He is familiar with the language as he has translated many of the Portuguese poetry classics into the Chinese language.

Zhuhai to develop island park in the city

Zhuhai will spend over RMB80 million in the development of Yelidao (an island close to Zhuhai), as announced in a statement released by the Zhuhai Development and Reform Bureau. The city expects Yelidao to become the most thrilling island park within the city. The island of Yelidao has a total area of 501,447 square meters, and the Zhuhai government has saved an area of 250,000 square meters to build landscape projects. Along with the landscape, a new tourism center (2,648 square meters) will also be allocated. By building these facilities, Zhuhai expects to develop a unique coastal garden in China.

Trade association job matches far from satisfactory

In the first five months of 2016, the Macau Federation of Trade Unions (FAOM) received a total of 659 applications from people who sought FAOM’s help in finding a job. The applicants consist mainly of new immigrants, people who are changing careers and fresh university graduates. Wong Kuai Leng, vice director of FAOM, highlighted the fact that the association had organized 13 large-scale recruitment events in the recent months where over a thousand of job vacancies were being offered, mostly in non-gaming sectors. However, successful matches between the jobs and the candidates were scarce “because the initial proposed salaries are short of what the employees expect to earn,” said Wong, according to a report by Macao Daily News.