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The Secretary for Security, Mr Wong Sio Chak, said today that planned improvements to Macao’s legal provisions and the city’s mechanism to safeguard national security were progressing in an orderly manner. The Government was striving to complete the revision of the relevant laws within this year, he added.
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The Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, Ms Ao Ieong U, has urged members of the Macao public to avoid any unnecessary indoor activities such as banquets.
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The 21^st Macao City Fringe Festival, organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym), will be held from 12 to 23 January. The opening ceremony will be held at 4:30pm on 12 January (Wednesday), at the Leisure Area in Rua Oito do Bairro Iao Hon and a free game zone will be available on site. The participatory exhibition “Art Exhibition for All” will also officially open at 12pm on the same day at the space next to Flower City Park, showing that everyone can be an artist and delivering artistic creativity all around the city.
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A work on the study of classical languages, Latin, Greek and Hebrew in Macao over the centuries opens Issue 67 of RCI, whose knowledge remains relevant especially in the field of theological studies.
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The Natural Language Processing & Portuguese-Chinese Machine Translation Laboratory (NLP2CT) under the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) participated in the Metrics Shared Task at the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation with the translation team from Alibaba Dharma Academy. They won first prizes in five of the eight automatic translation quality tests, as well as two second prizes and one fifth prize, outperforming competitors such as Google and Unbabel.
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The Centre for Gaming and Tourism Studies (CJT) of Macao Polytechnic Institute held the Forum on Macao Integrated Tourism and Leisure Enterprises and Corporate Social Responsibility on December 2, 2021. The purpose of this forum was to discuss issues of general interest to the society about the corporate social responsibility in Macao’s gaming industry, promote exchanges among the six integrated tourism and leisure enterprises (ITLEs) and contribute to a more stable and healthy development of Macao's gaming and tourism industry. The forum attracted more than 100 participants from the enterprises, teachers and students.
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Due to the staging of the sound theatre Back Home, integrated in the 21^st Macao City Fringe Festival, organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, the General Ye Ting’s Former Residence will close on 11 January all day, at 5pm on 13 and 14 January, and at 1pm on 15 and 16 January.
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January is a contribution month of the Social Security Fund (abbreviated to FSS in Macao). In this month, employers are required to pay obligatory system contributions for their local long-term employees for the fourth quarter of 2021. If a non-resident worker is hired, the employer is required to pay the employment fee as well. In addition, arbitrary system beneficiaries can also pay their contributions in January. The FSS calls on employers and arbitrary system beneficiaries to use electronic payment channels as much as possible.
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As the only public comprehensive university in Macao, the University of Macau (UM) has the responsibility to nurture local talent needed for the development of the city. In terms of resource allocation, the university strictly follows the principle of making judicious use of public funds, rewarding outstanding students, assisting students in need, and enhancing teaching quality, in order to continuously improve teaching quality while ensuring equity in education. The university also provides support to Macao’s positioning and talent development strategy through the launch of new degree programmes and the establishment of talent training centres.
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