Macao, a small city that recorded 25 million tourist arrivals in 2010, is definitely a wonderful tourism city in travellers' mind. Dramatically and fantastically, Macao has been developing its famous tourist attractions. People know about Ruins of St. Paul's, Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro , A-Ma Temple, Old Ladies' House Art Space, as there are so many places in Macao that have already been included in the World Heritage. However, Macao is not just like that. It has more than what we know and what we expect. Every corner shop, although as small as a grain of sand in the beach, also has its own story.

This Spring issue of Umac Bridges purposely chooses the "Macao Map" as the central theme. We believe that Macao has so much fun and we investigate many interesting stories to reveal that "the difference is Macao".

We all went to different places, discovering the best news stories. We all faced difficulties in writing, conducting interviews or taking photos. But we all know, as a journalist, this is our job. And we love it. We have tried to explore it to the deepest as we can. Macao is not merely a tourism place, for us, it is romantic, mysterious, creative, leisured, exciting, crowded and full of multi-culturalism. Producing the Macao Map, we want to arouse your interest and remind all of you that Macao, although a small city, still has a lot of fascinating stories going on. Our aim is to bring you to every single corner of this city and enjoy the treasured moments.

Umac Bridges is a campus publication as well as the academic project by 4th year English Communication students in the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Macau. Through this publication, students can apply the skills of journalism, desktop publishing, web design and event planning and implementation which they have learned throughout the academic years to an actual project. The aim of this publication is to cultivate the sense of news of UM students and call their attention to issues happening around them. The magazine also has an online version which experiments with some multimedia news stories.

We would like to give special thanks to our course instructor, Prof. Wu Mei, and our teaching assistant, Ms. Karen Chiang, for their knowledgeable guidance and support during the production process.

On behalf of the production team, I hope you will enjoy this issue of Umac Bridges, and go for an adventure with Macao Map.

Special thanks also go to Ms. Jenny Lou, Ms. Mandy Fong, Mr. Eliot Ng, Information and Communication Technology Office, and Welfare Printing Limited.

Chief Editor

Nuno Leung