Rafael Custódio Marque is the Consul General of Mozambique in Macau. He opened the first Consulate General in the Special Administrative Region of Macau in 2014.
Catarina Brites Soares
Catarina has been a journalist since 2010. Born in Lisbon, she studied in Portugal until she was 20 years old, when she left to study and work abroad. Macao was the place where she started her career. She worked for media companies like Expresso and Diário de Notícias as international correspondent, and for local chinese/portuguese media. Besides Journalism, she is also passionate about Arts and Culture. After a master in Cinema and documentary in Barcelona, in 2015, she also made movies and video-documentaries. Her life is between Europe and Macao, where she lives now.
Albano Martins came for three years and nearly four decades have gone by, living more than half his life in Macao. He was the ANIMA president for 17 years – which he founded in 2003 – until resigning in June 2020 to return to Portugal.
The director of the Portuguese Institute of the Orient (IPOR), Joaquim Coelho Ramos, looks forward to pleasant times in Macao. Indeed, he has felt good from the moment he set foot in the region, which is usually a good omen, he says.