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The University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Business Administration (FBA) held a kick-off ceremony to celebrate its 30^th anniversary on 11 November. Over the past 30 years, the faculty has produced many outstanding graduates for society and has earned international recognition for its high-quality business education. FBA is Macao’s first business school that has earned accreditation from both the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the Association of MBAs (AMBA). It is also a full member of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).
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The Department of Portuguese under the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) today (November 27) held the 17th Portuguese Speech Contest in the UM Wu Yee Sun Library. The event aimed to promote Portuguese language studies, increase students’ interest in learning Portuguese, and reward the best-performing students.
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Dr. Fernando Lourenço led Culinary Arts Management programme students from the Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (IFTM) to support Aphelion Media Limited on a project to help Medan Indonesia Restaurant to rejuvenate its forty-seven years old brand. This project belongs to a government scheme initiated by the Macao Economic Bureau to help established old brands to enhance their competitiveness.
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The Consumer Council conducted its ‘Supermarket price survey’ of the second-half of November on 27 November for the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June. Surveyed locations included 7 supermarkets in Taipa and Coloane Parish. Consumers may now check the report data on the Council’s website (www.consumer.gov.mo), the “Supermarket Price Information Platform” app, or the Council’s WeChat account.
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The “28^th China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival” was held from 19 to 23 November in Xiamen, Fujian province. The films Diago and Nobody Nose, directed by Macao writer Lio Chi Heng, were screened at the “Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Film Festival” session. A delegation of representatives from the Cultural Affairs Bureau and the local film industry attended the Festival in Xiamen on 20 November, during which they exchanged views with representatives of the film industry from all over the world and promoted Macao films.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the general unemployment rate for August-October 2019 held steady over the previous period (July-September 2019), at 1.8%; the unemployment rate of local residents was 2.4%, down by 0.1 percentage point. Meanwhile, the underemployment rate was 0.5%, up by 0.1 percentage point.
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The Macao SAR Government will ban all unmanned aircraft activities during the 20^th anniversary of the establishment of the special administrative region to ensure that the celebrations will take place in a safe environment.
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The University of Macau (UM) State Key Lab of the Internet of Things for Smart City recently signed a collaboration agreement with the Center for Space Remote Sensing Demonstration under China National Space Administration (CNSA), becoming the first institute in Hong Kong and Macao to collaborate with a space remote sensing scientific demonstration unit. By signing the agreement, both parties hope to combine their strengths for collaborative innovation and to promote the commercialisation of scientific research results in the field of ground application systems in satellite remote sensing big data, which will be beneficial to the training of professionals and scientific research in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA).
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