CESL Asia held its “Sport Fun Day 2018” for the second year yesterday (28 October) with an aim to promote an inclusive society with people from all groups. The key mission of the event is to spread positivity through sports with support from like-minded partners who share the same intention. The event raised a total amount of $160,000 in donations to the MSO to support its disabled sports development and social welfare programs.

The event consisted of Football and Bocce tournaments. More than 200 participants, students and volunteers gathered at the stadium to sweat for a good cause. Through the interaction between all kinds of members in the society including the challenged or underprivileged, it enhanced the challenged group’s confidence in the society with a fulfilled potential, as well as raising the awareness for the integration of all people.

The impact and success of the event were attributed to the generous support of the participating teams, namely Banco Comercial de Macau, BNU, BOC Macau Branch Sports Association, Banco Tai Fung, Be-1, Macau International Airport Co. Ltd., Macau Coca-Cola Beverage Co. Ltd., Ernst & Young, Federation of Macau-China Sport General Associations, Global Communications Advertising & Marketing Ltd., Recreation Club of Finance Services, Jardine Lloyd Thompson Limited, Jorge Neto Valente, Lawyers and Notaries, Jornal Tribuna de Macau, McDonald’s Macau, Macau Daily Times, MGM, Milton Exhibits & Engineering (Macau) Ltd., Owen Sports World, Philippine Consulate General - Macau SAR, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SJM Holdings Ltd., The Macau Institution of Engineers, University of Macau and University of Saint Joseph.

As a local enterprise rooted in Macau over the past three decades, CESL Asia has been taking the pivotal role of giving back to the community. CESL Asia believes that education and social investments are the solutions to eliminate the labelling and stereotypes to the disabled groups and to promote the development of a sustainable inclusive community.

On 27 August, CESL Asia hosted its “Kids Movie Day” for the eighth consecutive year. The company and its Social Investment (CSI) Team have been bringing over 15 local beneficial institutions to the event during the past years; apart from arousing public attention towards underprivileged children, CESL Asia hopes to propagate a positive message to the local children and encourage them contributing back to Macao's community.

A total of four local institutions were invited to the event, including Fuhong Society of Macau, Association of Mentally Disabled Families, Mong Ha Children and Youth Home, and Joy Integrated Family Service Centre of Caritas Macau, together with the children from CSI Team made up a total of 120 participants. Being a long-term partnership with the company, Golden Burger (Macau) Food Company Limited has been supporting the event fully throughout the years. The President and CEO of CESL Asia, Mr. Antonio Trindade, Director, Mr. Dominic Sio; and the CEO of Golden Burger Group and Developmental Licensee of McDonald’s Macau, Ms. Michelle Ho, plus both companies’ management team presented in this event.

The fantastic performance and interactive game show of Mr. Ronald McDonald were a highlight of the event. The CSI Team then led all participants to the Planetarium of Macao Science Center for a lively and entertaining introduction of company local services that beneficial to the community and how are those services connected with the kids in daily life. We aim to inspire and encourage our future ones about the importance of giving back to the community where we are living. Hereafter the movie “The Little Prince” was featured, and the company mainly selected this movie for the promotion of positive thinking as well as cherish moments. The day was later ended with a tour in Macao Science Center whereas all participants spent a great time in learning the popular science in a lively and vivid fashion, and Macao Science Center fully sponsored all admission tickets. In addition, we would like to express our sincere thanks to Global Communications Advertising & Marketing Ltd for their support in organizing this meaningful event.

The President and CEO of CESL Asia, Mr. Antonio Trindade expressed that children are important stakeholders and the pillars of future. The company hopes to spread love and care towards local children, and most importantly cultivate their talents to aware that they do also have the ability to contribute to the community, just like CESL Asia and its staff --- serving Macao, contributing back to Macao and aims at enhancing the living and environment standard for local citizens.

Reaching its 30th anniversary, CESL Asia has been actively promoting various charitable and community development events through the non-profit “CESL Asia Social Investment” fund, caring local youth and children with practical actions, adhering to the vision of sustainable development, benefiting the community, and together building a better today and tomorrow.

CESL Asia has been sparing no effort for the past 30 years to take part in the development of Macau under its motto “How to grow a city”. Home to diversified professional services of the highest degree of quality and added value, CESL Asia is committed to innovative and reliable technology solutions, custom-made for relevant references in both the public and private sectors, and also deeply committed to contribute to the sustainable development of the community. In which scope stands out CESL Asia priority to nurture a pool of local talent.As a Macau-rooted company, CESL Asia has been working and moving with the community to promote higher standards of quality of life as well as the idea of sustainable development. Supported by innovative technologies and the updating of professional services, CESL showcases solutions and applications suitable to Macau with a Smart City in mind.

Thus, during the 11th consecutive year of its participation in the Macau International Environmental Co-operation Forum & Exhibition (MIECF 2018), CESL Asia will be showcasing its ideas and solutions between the 12th and 14th of April.

Given the comparative advantages of a long-rooted local company, its leadership and over 300 of its professionals are Macau citizens! Today employing over 400 highly qualified professionals — and experienced to work in complex, diverse business and social environments, CESL Asia is well-positioned to bridge China and Portuguese Speaking Countries with its unique business proposition. Having started from 2012, implementing its “Growing Platform Strategy”, CESL Asia can act as a facilitator of co-operation among possible partners from China and different countries, and answers to the call and opportunities arising from the diversification of Macau economy by scaling its business to reach the new markets opening up for us. We are growing our business in Macau and Portugal and, in the process, building unique business opportunities for other local, regional and international partners, all being developed within the “Belt and Road”, “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area” and “Macau Platform” initiatives.

Therefore, and as previous years, CESL Asia will display its initiatives being jointly developed with its partner from the Fujian Province, the high-tech integrated group “Newland”, a leading player in innovative technology and new-generation tech-products in the Chinese market. Among other applications to showcase at MIECF, CESL Asia underlines the smart transportation system, cloud computing and big data, and the opportunities for potential deployment of modern solutions in the area of environmental management, the area of management of situations of public calamity and the modernization of public services and utilities. We believe that all these elements contribute to the sustainability of the social and economic development, the increasing of the quality of life of Macau citizens and the development of CESL Asia Investment and Services, its management and staff.

Over 30 years, CESL Asia not only took great care to build a reputation of excellence of its professional services of high added value, specially crafted to attend to the specifics of the local market, but also has been following strictly the principle of making the city grow with integrity, creating value and promoting a sustainable development.

In the future, CESL Asia sees itself keeping on being the leading provider of services associated to the innovative technologies, the ones better suited to the actual outlook as well as to implement the blueprint of a Smart City.

CESL Asia held its “Kids Movie Day” for the seventh consecutive year with an aim to spread the love and care to the kids from local child institutions and bring joyfulness to them. CESL Asia Social Investment (CSI) Team gathered over 100 kids and 30 volunteers to enjoy an animation movie and disseminate the idea of building harmonious society.

The event was held on 14 October and CESL Asia Social Investment Team counted with the presence of Mr. António Trindade, Mr. Dominic Sio and the most senior members of CESL Asia Executive team as well as kids from CESL Asia’s volunteers who hosted. Kids from Macau Special Olympics, Cradle of Hope, Fountain of Hope and Fountain of Love and Joy Integrated Family Services Centre. In total we had over 130 participants who enjoyed an animation movie and a brunch party.

As has been the case in the past years, the party at McDonald’s restaurant at Macao Science Center was a highlight in the program to further delight the kids with a nice brunch and entertainment. Ms. Michelle Ho, CEO of Golden Burger (Macau) Food Company Limited and Developmental Licensee for McDonald’s Macau, and their management team were also present at the party and joined-in a great time with the kids through the joyful meals and interactive games. During the occasion, the presence of Ronald McDonald and his interaction with the kids led to a playful end to the brunch. After the brunch, all kids participated in an educating visit of the Macao Science Centre while all admissions were fully sponsored by the Center. All kids enjoyed the animation movie that followed the meal and visit to the Macao Science Centre, and made-up for an unforgettable day, a perfect ending for this CESL Asia Social Investment activity.

We all in CESL Asia, with senior management leadership, hope to contribute to nurture Macau kids as they are our future and, in this way, we expect to contribute to their upbringing, to grow our city. One of the volunteers from CSI team expressed that this is valuable experience which allowed their kids to communicate with different sectors in society and at the same time, the kids can leave to give a helping hand to others and care for disadvantaged groups in the society.

CESL Asia established “CESL Asia Social Investment” fund (CSI) since 2000. Each year, CESL Asia devotes part of its corporate revenue to social worthy investments of local youth and community development. In the future, CESL Asia will take a proactive role in promoting harmonious society and in hand with the public to create a better tomorrow.

The CESL Asia and Friends Sport Fun Day was held on 10 June at Workers Stadium, a cooperative effort to promote social integration and stimulate institutional, corporate and public awareness for the untapped potential for the challenged members of our community as contributors for the social and economic development of our community. The event, with the support of participating entities and individuals, succeeded in raising a total of MOP 80,000 for Macau Special Olympics (MSO) to empower its mission of transforming lives through sports.

This year’s event aimed at increasing the number of participants that are involved in CESL Asia’s annual Sport Fun Day activities by including a bocce ball tournament alongside with the annual football tournament which have received great support and recognition from those participating in previous years. The bocce tournament fostered face-to-face interactions among participating teams with MSO athletes and families as well as cultivated mutual understanding through the joy of participating in sports activities. The on-site Kids Corner extended the fun to the younger participants and also helped to introduce them to the benefits of an inclusive society into all aspects.

The impact and success of the event were attributed to the generous support of the participating teams, namely Administration of Airports Ltd., Banco Comercial de Macau, Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Be-1, BOC Macau Branch Sports Association, Ernst & Young, Galaxy Entertainment Group, Global Communications Advertising & Marketing Ltd., Golden Burger (Macau) Food Co. Ltd., Housing Bureau, Jardine Lloyd Thompson Ltd., Jorge Neto Valente, Lawyers and Notaries, Jornal Tribuna de Macau, Macau Coca-Cola Beverage Co. Ltd., Macau Daily Times, Marine and Water Bureau, Melco Resorts & Entertainment Ltd., MGM, Milton Exhibits & Engineering (Macau) Ltd., Philippine Consulate General - Macau SAR, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, S.A., The Macau Institution of Engineers, and University of Saint Joseph, as well as over 80 volunteers.

Some participants expressed their excitement in exploring the bocce game and the hand-on experience of partnering with MSO athletes; while the latter shared their joy in meeting new friends.

As committed at the establishment of its Social Investment program in 2000 and inspired by its motto “How to grow a city.”, CESL Asia will continue fostering the interaction among diverse parties of our community through sports events and other initiatives, while working with its staff, their families and business associates for the development of a prosperous and caring community.

On 13 May, Mr. António Trindade, the President and Chief Executive Officer of CESL Asia, led the group’s Social Investment Team to the Macao Blood Transfusion Service Centre for collective blood donation, encouraging the life-saving voluntary acts and ensuring sufficient blood supplies for the city.

This activity was held for the fourth consecutive year, together with more than 20 CESL Asia members and their families to support this meaningful life-changing event. CESL Asia continues its efforts in contributing to the community and helping the needy through blood donation, hoping that this initiative can influence all around the society with caring.

To promote the intellectual, social, cultural and physical well-being of the community, CESL Asia initiated the non-profit “CESL Asia Social Investment Fund” in 2000. Over these years, the company keeps organizing a variety of Social Investment Programs and works closely with staff members, clients and likeminded entities to advance local community development.

With progressive mindset and solid actions, CESL Asia has been committed to playing its part in bridging Mainland China, the Portuguese-speaking countries and other European countries under the Macau’s Platform to implement green, innovative and sustainable business approaches for economic and social development of these territories. At this year’s MIECF, CESL Asia will also showcase its association with Spin.Works, a Portuguese technology company that applies proprietary space technology to an unmanned craft that is equipped with high-tech intelligence that can be applied to a wide variety of areas.

With its breadth of local experience in Macau, China and Portugal, CESL Asia is devoted to serving a portfolio of prestigious references with its high-performance and value-added management and operations, with a focus on sustainability and environmental solutions. Meanwhile, CESL Asia is also making tireless contribution to foster Sino-Luso economic and social development with investments and operations in both markets, namely in terms of advancing the use of sustainable energy and technology solutions. CESL Asia, as a Macau company, pioneers in the high-tech renewable energy industry in Portugal and has so far invested two Concentrating Photovoltaic Power Plants in Southern Portugal. CESL Asia will further its investments into seed to table projects and into the application of state-of-the-art technologies to energy and agriculture projects. All like Spin.Works business proposition that integrates the functionalities of survey, surveillance and data analysis, featuring proprietary, multidisciplinary solutions for the applications in commercial agriculture, water management, mining, topography, etc. CESL Asia believes that such innovations will create higher values and harvest a brighter and sustainable future for its business and the generations to come.

With a well-deserved reputation over the past 28 years, CESL Asia takes the lead in applying and transferring prominent technology into localized and superb services. CESL Asia will seize every opportunity brought up by One Belt One Road Initiative, as a promising new economic tie between China, Macau, Pan-Pearl River Delta (9+2) and the Portuguese-speaking countries to press ahead with its commitment to serving the community, while developing its business.

On 24 August, CESL Asia organized its Kids Movie Day for the sixth consecutive year. CESL Asia Social Investment (CSI) Team entertained around 80 local kids with the animation movie Chibi Maruko-chan: The Boy from Italy, through which the company wished to deliver a message of embracing cultural diversity to the kids while they were enjoying the movie. After that, a lunch party at McDonald’s restaurant in Macao Science Center was arranged to further amuse the kids.

Golden Burger (Macau) Food Co. Ltd. again bolstered this event by sponsoring lunch meals to all participating kids. The company has an enduring partnership with CESL Asia in the latter’s Social Investment Program, jointly fulfilling their social responsibility. The CEO of Golden Burger, Ms. Michelle Ho and the President & CEO of CESL Asia, Mr. António Trindade, together with senior management, were present at the party and had a great time with the kids. The performance of classic McDonald’s iconic characters and interactive games aroused continuous peals of merry laughter and exaltation of all participants, perking up an exciting ambience.

Participating kids came from four local child care institutions, Cradle of Hope Association, Fountain of Hope Association, Lotto Home, and Mong-Há Children and Youth Home, many of which CESL Asia have been working with for years to jointly create unforgettable summers for the less fortunate kids. CESL Asia Kids Movie Day over the years witnesses the growth of the kids and meanwhile enables CSI Team to gain precious and beneficial experience.

In 2000, CESL Asia established “CESL Asia Social Investment” fund (CSI), a non-profit fund intended to enhance the intellectual, social, cultural and physical well-being in local community and among staff members. The charitable CESL Asia Credit Card, in partnership with BNU, for years targets the local youth development, investing the company’s resources in the future of Macau community.

On 18 June, CESL Asia organized a collective blood donation. Mr. António Trindade, the President and CEO of CESL Asia, led more than 20 volunteers to the Macao Blood Transfusion Service Centre, showing their active involvement in maintaining sufficient blood supply for the city.

This activity was held for the third consecutive year in CESL Asia. A volunteer expressed that he had his first blood donation through this activity three years ago and now he is a regular donor. Through organizing various social investment activities, the company hopes to enhance the association and exchange among its staff, families and the community while giving back to the society.

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. The company actively encourages its employees to develop Social Investment Program and joins hands with its likeminded clients and organizations to make a broader investment and impact to the development of the community in Macau, growing our city together.

Macao, 7 May 2016 - CESL Asia held its CESL Asia and Friends Invitational Charity Football Tournament at Mini-Soccer Pitch of University of Macau. The philanthropic sport event was held for the third consecutive year and this year succeeded in raising a total of MOP50,000 for Macau Special Olympics to support the organization’s activities and advance their social charter. Through this event, CESL Asia furthers their commitment of association with likeminded clients and cooperation partners to jointly promote for higher social acceptance of individuals with intellectual disabilities, to promote an inclusive society and while arising public interest in such undertakings.

CESL Asia invited football teams from Administration of Airports Ltd, Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Be-1, Consulate General of Portugal in Macau & Hong Kong and the Macau Institution of Engineers to participate in this meaningful event. Banco Comercial de Macau, Macau Coca-Cola Beverage Co. Ltd. and Milton Exhibits & Engineering (Macau) Ltd. also provided generous support to make this charitable event more successful.

After several rounds of keen competition, the championship went to CESL Asia Team. The tournament finally came to a successful end with a check presentation by Mr. António Trindade, the President & CEO of CESL Asia, to Mr. Hetzer Siu, the CEO of the Macau Special Olympics.

With its Social Investment fund, CESL Asia is devoted to organizing and participating in activities to promote social development and assist the disadvantaged in the community, and at the same time provides its staff with opportunities to enrich their experience of developing closer ties with business associates, families and our community while developing a company leadership that is mindful of high business performance with high integrity.

Macau Special Olympics, a non-profit organization, is active in providing social integration and inclusion by providing sport trainings and competitions, vocational rehabilitation services and social assistance to people with intellectual disabilities and with special education needs.