Macao is a small dynamic city with abundant unique elements. Transforming from the time when people lived a monastic lifestyle to a more gracious one now, Macao has been experiencing the passage of time. People, culture, lifestyle and even the living environment of this small city is changing constantly and tremendously.

“Tangram”, the title of the Umac Bridges spring 2013, shows the main theme of our team that Macao is “small like a sparrow, but it has entire vital organs”. With all the different elements it has acquired, the enclave puts all together into many diversified and dramatic images. Just like playing with a tangram puzzle, mixing and matching, creating different stories of Macao.

Umac Bridges is a campus publication as well as the academic project produced 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 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, Helen Wang, for their knowledgeable guidance and support during the whole production process. Moreover, I would also like to thank all the members in our team for giving me this opportunity to serve as Chief Editor which constitutes the most precious memory in my university life.

Last but not least, on behalf of the production team, I hope you would enjoy this issue of Umac Bridges, and develop a fresher and colorful view towards Macao.

Chief Editor
Karen Lei