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The Macao Cultural Centre, under the auspices of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, presents The Formidable Year, a newly commissioned piece created by a dynamic team of dancer-choreographers. The new work is set to be premiered at CCM’s Small Auditorium in two shows scheduled for 11 and 12 March (Friday and Saturday).
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Health quarantine requirements for inbound travellers of different identities.
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With the continuous development of the epidemic situation in Zhuhai, the number of control areas increased yesterday. In order to cooperate on the epidemic prevention measures, after communicating with the health department, it is believed that further reducing cross-border teachers’ and students’ commute between Zhuhai and Macao will have a positive impact on reducing the risk of the epidemic and help with the overall epidemic prevention. Therefore, the DSEDJ announced that cross-border teachers and students of tertiary education institutions and non-tertiary education schools will not return to Macao for classes temporarily from January 21 (Friday) until the end of the Spring Festival holiday.
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IFTM Culinary Arts Management students engaged in an industry project via their entrepreneurship course to help ROBI3, a local research and development brand, to explore how and where their robotic technologies can be applied to culinary, hospitality and/or tourism fields.
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The 29^th issue of Books and the City, published by the Macao Public Library under the Cultural Affairs Bureau, is now available to the public. Themed “Why We Started to Read”, this issue of Books and the City interviewed four book lovers in different capacities to share their views on reading.
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As of 19 January, about 10000 employers have not yet paid the obligatory system contributions for their employees to the Social Security System for the fourth quarter of 2021, accounting for about 40% of the total number of employers required to pay contributions. It is expected that the flow of people at the service points will increase towards the end of the month. In order to improve efficiency, the Social Security Fund (abbreviated to FSS in Macao) calls on employers and residents to make more use of the electronic channels to pay contributions or to use the appointment service.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 820,870 in December 2021, a growth of 2.4% month-on-month and an upsurge of 24.5% year-on-year. Same-day visitors (426,559) and overnight visitors (394,311) rose by 58.5% and 1.0% year-on-year respectively. Meanwhile, the average length of stay of visitors held steady year-on-year at 1.5 days; the duration for same-day visitors remained at 0.1 day while that for overnight visitors went up by 0.5 day to 3.0 days.
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At present, all tertiary education institutions and non-tertiary education schools are implementing the “Guidelines on COVID-19 Vaccination and Nucleic Acid Testing for Staff,” issued by the health department. The relevant guidelines were updated on January 5. The DSEDJ issued a notice to tertiary education institutions and non-tertiary education schools on January 19 to inform them that from February 21, 2022, all faculty members, college students, school teachers and staff must present proof of completing 2 doses of the primary series of COVID-19 vaccine 14 days ago, when entering the campus. Those who were not fully vaccinated 14 days ago (receiving 2 doses of mRNA vaccines or Inactivated vaccines in the primary series) need to take nucleic acid test every 7 days. Private continuing education institutions and private supplementary education support centers should also start to implement the above-mentioned guidelines on the same day. In addition, teaching staff and college students who hold a "Physician Evaluation Certificate of Unsuitability for Novel Coronavirus Vaccination" issued by the Health Bureau can make an appointment for a free nucleic acid testing service through the following link of the Health Bureau: https://app.ssm.gov.mo/certifiedunvaccinaternabook.
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In view of the issue about the novel coronavirus detected in multiple samples collected from hamsters in a pet shop in Hong Kong, the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) has sent more staff to carry out inspections of pet shops selling hamsters in Macao on 18 January, and performed random nucleic acid tests for novel coronavirus on the hamsters in the pet shops on 19 January. All the results are negative. According to import records, no hamsters were imported into Macao by retail establishments of pets in Macao since last year.
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