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Throughout the Fiscal Year 2021 for public administration, Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) braved the new prospect and challenges with its unswerving commitment to the Macao Special Administrative Region Government’s overall direction of policy implementation, and effectively carried out the major measures. Over the past year, MGTO not just significantly deepened integration across different sectors of “tourism +” but also raised Macao’s profile as a safe, healthy and quality destination. Its efforts propelled the tourism industry towards recovery and contributed to economic revival as the pandemic situation stabilized.
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The 2021 Portuguese Speaking Countries Products and Services Exhibition (Macao) (2021PLPEX), in collaboration with the “Global Ingredients, Taste of Shanghai” catering event, has earlier released the first “Global Wine．Shanghai Wine List – Recommended Wine List of Portuguese-speaking Countries in 2021”. By doing so, 2021PLPEX aims to foster economic, trade and cultural exchanges and co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries, leverage Macao’s advantages as the platform between China and Portuguese-speaking countries, highlight the theme of 2021PLPEX “Grasping Co-operation Opportunities and Opening up New Horizons via China-Portuguese-speaking Countries Platform”, and meanwhile produce synergy with Shanghai, the partner city of the 26^th Macao International Trade and Investment Fair (26^th MIF). Representatives of the winning enterprises believe that the event can improve the popularity of the products from Portuguese-speaking countries in the Chinese Mainland and thus fuel the publicity and promotion for the event. The winning wines from these companies are even acclaimed by Shanghai enterprises. In addition, a wine list awards ceremony, Portuguese-speaking countries’ wine tasting and promotional activities will be held at 2021PLPEX.
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The University of Macau (UM) today (24 November) held the Scholarship Presentation Ceremony 2021. During the ceremony, the university presented scholarships and academic prizes to 356 students for their outstanding academic performance.
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Healthquarantine requirements and measures for inbound travellers of differentidentities.
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Individuals intending to leave Macao via a civil aviation flight are now required to present a nucleic acid test certificate – with a validity of seven days counting from the day the sample is taken – proving they are ‘negative’ for COVID-19 infection.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that value of retail sales for the third quarter of 2021 totalled MOP15.98 billion, up by 78.1% year-on-year. After removing the effect of price changes, the sales volume index surged by 86.5% year-on-year.
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The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) released results of the Survey on Manpower Needs and Wages of Financial Activities for the third quarter of 2021. The Survey covers the Banking Sector, Other Financial Intermediation, Insurance and Activities Auxiliary to Financial Intermediation, including financial institutions supervised by the Monetary Authority of Macao, but excluding insurance agents and brokers not directly employed by insurance companies.
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The Chief Executive, Mr Ho Iat Seng, is scheduled to depart to Guangzhou in the afternoon to attend the opening ceremony of the China Internet Media Forum tomorrow.
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