Macao, 27 August 2015 - CESL Asia held its Kids Movie Day for the fifth consecutive year. CESL Asia Social Investment (CSI) Team, led around 80 kids to enjoy the animation movie, Doraemon - Nobita and the Space Heroes, followed by a joyful lunch party at McDonald’s restaurant in Macao Science Center.

CESL Asia invited the less fortunate kids from four local child care institutions, Cradle of Hope Association, Caritas Family Services, ECF Macau Fellowship Orphanage, and Mong-Há Children and Youth Home. With this event the company aims to provide a day of joy and warmth to the kids and support their families and caretakers, while providing an invaluable opportunity to enrich CESL Asia and its team with the experience of developing and executing a successful social investment project.

To enhance our young guests’ experience at the movies, our CSI Team specially purchased gift sets made and packaged by mentally and physically disabled individuals from Fu Hong Association and distributed the gifts to the kids participating in the event.

McDonald’s Macau continued to render support to this event by sponsoring lunch meals to the participating kids. Their Managing Director, Ms. Michelle Ho joined Mr. Antonio Trindade, the President and CEO of CESL Asia, together with his senior management and CSI Team for the lunch party and enjoyed a great time with the kids. The presence of Ronald McDonald further enlivened the pleasant atmosphere and he delighted the already excited kids with fantastic magic show, attracting continuous exhilarated laughter and cheers of all participants.

Believing that those youngsters are extremely important for the future of our company, CESL Asia, through its Social Investment Program which was established 15 years ago with a charter that includes a specific mandate, as part of the company annual business plans, develops its own programs in support of youth and community development.

Macao, 18 July 2015 - Macau Special Olympics (MSO) hosted its “2015 CESL Asia & MSO Bocce Game Event” at the MSO headquarter on 18 July. The event was planned on the hope that, through the bocce game, mentally-challenged people or students with special education needs would be motivated to participate in sport activities, which are believed to be beneficial to their physical and mental health. In an expression of their enthusiasm to foster social integration of able-bodied and disabled persons, volunteers from CESL Asia – Investments & Services, Limited also took part in the bocce game and participated with the players.

The activity attracted around 100 participants, including mentally-challenged individuals from special schools, sheltered workshops, caring centers and residential homes as well as their parents. The game encouraged participation of non-athletes by classifying them into various groups on basis of their ages and skills. All participants enjoyed very much their experience of the game.

This was the third consecutive year of CESL Asia’s sponsorship of the bocce game. On the day of the event, more than 20 enthusiastic volunteers from CESL Asia convened to play with the students, with an aim to enact the spirit of integrating able-bodied and disabled individuals and to promote social acceptance for special groups in our community.

At the same time, this game served as a performance test for the MSO Bocce Team prior attending the international competition.

Representatives from CESL Asia, Macao Sport Development Board, Education and Youth Affairs Bureau, Macao Sports Committee and other agencies also attended the event and granted the winning athletes awards as encouragement.

Macao, 26 March 2015 – CESL Asia, a distinguished local company dedicated to cultivating a more environmentally friendly city with its top-tier green service solutions, takes pride in introducing its fresh business operations to the public at the MIECF 2015, held from 26 to 28 March. The new laundry venture validates CESL Asia’s diverse profile, which has been expanding significantly in tandem with its growing competence citywide. SMARTABLE Laundries with their state-of-the-art facilities, now under CESL Asia’s management, will further enhance the value of this service to its clients, further broadening their extensive presence in the industry market. The company enjoys a vast client-base including most of the international high-end resort hotels and casinos across the city, namely Sheraton Macao Hotel, Conrad Macao at Sands Cotai Central, City of Dreams Macau, Galaxy Resort Complex in Macau and MGM Macau. It processes more than 70 tons of linen and a whopping 30 thousand pieces of staff uniforms daily. Responding to the golden opportunities arising from the thriving Cotai strip, the company anticipates doubling its current output volume, and expanding its personnel to 600 within the following few years.

In addition to the introduction of the new business, this year’s MIECF will also see CESL Asia’s joint venture with the Portuguese manufacturer Magpower Inc. on Concentrated Photovoltaics Technology (CPV technology) in southern Portugal. This project involves investment in the solar plant CPV Energia I, with it already running smoothly in its operation stage. Under the favorable license granted by the Portuguese government, the investment project enjoys a promising and profitable prospect. Committed to introducing green solutions for better living environments, CESL Asia is confident that this investment in advanced technology will provide a better living environment for Portugal and will equip the company with the knowhow and resources which can be transferred to serve opportunities arising in the advanced green energies market in China.

CESL Asia deeply believes that only by remaining innovative and versatile will the company be driven towards tremendous success. With its expanding business profile, CESL Asia looks forward to the next milestone to be erected in its business journey, delivering more localized professional services and progressive technological solutions that our community needs today and in the future.

Macao, 9 March 2015 - The president and CEO of CESL Asia Mr. Antonio Trindade last Saturday (7 March 2015) led the group’s social investment volunteers to the Macao Blood Transfusion Service Centre for collective blood donation, continuing as an exemplary role in engaging in local socially worthy activities for the public.

Realizing the importance of maintaining sufficient blood supply for the city, Mr. Trindade wished that their proactive involvement in the collective blood donation could encourage the rest of the company or even the society to take the initiative to save lives by contributing to local blood banks. The corporation’s blood donation activity has seen more than 20 staff attending, many of whom hoped that the company could organize more socially beneficial activities in the future.

In 2000, CESL Asia introduced the non-profit “CESL Asia Social Investment” fund with an objective to enhance the intellectual, social, cultural and physical well-being of the community and staff members. Each year, CESL Asia in partnership with its team members and other like-minded organizations provides valuable resources in support of the objectives established in the Social Investment Program. The company aims to expand its Social Investment Team and continues taking an active role in supporting the development of the community in Macau.

Macao, 16 May 2015 – CESL Asia organized the ‘2015 CESL Asia and Friends Invitational Charity Football Tournament’ at Hac Sa Park, Coloane on the 16th of this month. The event has raised a total of MOP 40,000 for which a cheque was presented by, Mr. António Trindade, the President and CEO of CESL Asia, to Mr. Hetzer Siu, the CEO of Macau Special Olympics. The tournament were won by BNU and CESL Asia after several rounds of keen competition.

This year the participating companies and organizations included Administration of Airports Ltd, The Macau Institution of Engineers, Be-1, Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Macau Special Olympics Cheng Fai, and CESL Asia. The philanthropic event was jointly sponsored and supported by Macau Coco-Cola Beverage Co. Ltd., Banco Comercial de Macau, SA as well as Milton Exhibits & Engineering (Macau) Ltd.

Through its non-profit ‘CESL Asia Social Investment Fund’, CESL Asia invited local companies and organizations to participate in this charitable event and raised funds for the Macau Special Olympics, helping local people with intellectual disabilities take part in regular exercises and recreational activities. Such charitable acts could arouse more concern in local business organizations and communities for Macau people with intellectual disabilities, in tandem with a promotion of corporate social responsibility.

Macau Special Olympics provides people with intellectual disabilities free sport training, tournaments and recreational activities in various degrees on year-round basis, hoping to encourage development both physically and mentally so that these people can explore their potential, enhance self-confidence, and cope with possible challenges in future. At the same time, it not only allows these less fortunate to experience an enhanced sense of meaning in their lives, but also enable the community to have a better understanding and acceptance of them.